THE JIMMY CARL BLACK STORY
Jon LARSEN’S sequel to STRANGE NEWS FROM MARS!
Jon LARSEN guitar/Martian
Jimmy Carl BLACK vocal/percussion
Knut REIERSRUD guitar/harmonica
Ola KVERNBERG violin
Rob WARING marimba
Ole Morten VÅGAN/Nikolai EILERTSEN bass
Andreas BYE/Håkon MJÅSET JOHANSEN drums
Special guest: Tommy MARS keyboards
Last year some of FRANK ZAPPA’s (1940-1993) talented alumni met guitarist/composer Jon Larsen in Arthur Barrow’s Lotek recording studio in LA. Together they recorded the amazing CD STRANGE NEWS FROM MARS. Here’s the new chapter in the story – THE JIMMY CARL BLACK STORY.
THE JIMMY CARL BLACK STORY is double: CD one is “The Rockumentary” – an 80 minutes documentary about the “Indian of the group”, where the old, native American (Cheyenne) tells his life story. We hear about the start at the reservation, via The Soul Giants, Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, mafia connections, and years of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, but also moving stories from a long, and unusual life in music. Jimmy Carl Black is the born storyteller. Does humour belong is music? Listen for yourself.
The other CD is ”The surrealistic Space Odyssey” – one hour of music inspired byJimmy Carl Black’s life story. The music is groove based R&B, laidback spacerock, and zappaesque jazz/rock, and even with some glimpses of Django. Here is also the 20 minutes adventure of Capt. Zurcon and his crew onboard the Spaceship BigEar III, on their way to the red planet Mars, and their problems with the sexually frustrated Martian (the Guacamole Queen), the mutant fromage, and a lurking whale (depicted on the cover, enclosed).
Jimmy Carl Black is legendary not only for his drumming, but also known as one of the greatest absurdists in rock, starting with his film debut together with Ringo Starr in Zappa’s 200 Motels. This is evident on the very last track on the CD, recorded in April this year, with the Indian of the group, reduced by the intensive cancer treatment, on the phone directly from his hospital bed!
On The surrealistic Space Odyssey CD you’ll also hearmarvelous soli by jazz musicians Knut Reiersrud (guitar/harmonica), Ola Kvernberg (violin – like you’ve never heard it before), Rob Waring (marimba), Jon Larsen (guitar) and Tommy Mars (keyboards).
THE JIMMY CARL BLACK CD is not an ordinary CD. The music, the adventure and the long documentary is a part of the conceptual continuity, and tell a different story – THE JIMMY CARL BLACK STORY.
THE JIMMY CARL BLACK STORY is the second release on the new label ZONIC ENTERTAINMENT / HOT CLUB RECORDS.
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