PROJECT OBJECT: The Dream of the Dog

Project Object

The Dream of the Dog

© 2003 project music (659057380827)

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One of the more thorough Frank Zappa tribute bands, often with ex-members of Zappa's legendary bands. Electric, Electronic, rock based, intense improvised music with samples, sax, guitar, bass, keys, drums etc.

tracks

1 Towson Dream - Simmons Mask
2 Indy Dream - Double Ya Needs a Blanket
3 Indy Dog - Patio Hearn..Itinerary
4 Denver Dream - Vail Attack
5 Denver Dog - The Windmills of your mind
6 Towson Kong - Broken Stolen Kramer
7 Chicago Kong - Bad Frying Pan Memory
8 Eugene Dream - Electrocutive Rain Gig
9 Eugene Dog - Panteez de la Crotchliss
10 LA Kong - West Coast Ya Gnome Saine
11 Vail Dream - Vail Attack
12 Vail Dog - Oxygen Deprivation
13 Denver Kong - That's College Rhythm
14 Colorado Dream - Too Young To have a Back

notes

Project Object is well known as one of the more thorough Frank Zappa tribute bands. They perform throughout the USA, also in Canada and Europe, often with ex-members of Zappa's legendary bands. This CD takes the listener to the improvisational regions the band visits every night onstage. It's a quick-shifting blend of killer rhythm-section grooves, skittering samples, synth lines, and inspired soloing. Think Grateful Dead's "Drums & Space" , but on steroids.

On this CD - the band features ROBBIE "SEAHAG" MANGANO & ANDRE CHOLMONDELEY on guitars and vocals, JORDAN SHAPIRO on Moog and other synths, DAVE JOHNSEN on bass & tortured bass, GLENN LEONARD on drums.

Every night on tour Project Object launches into untested waters, jamming on ESP. This risk-taking by actual musicians is sadly fading away, except for the growing jamband community & jazzers. Mothers of Invention sax player BUNK GARDNER appears on one track, and master of ceremonies IKE WILLIS, Zappa's sidekick for 14 years, is sprinkled throughout the CD with his witty asides. LA composers Kahlil Sabbagh and Chris Opperman also guest, Greg Ridlington contributes sax. The CD i s sequenced from many live performances in winter/spring 2002 into one psychedelic listening experience.

This CD is recommended if you are a fan of improvised and experimental music in general - but especially if you enjoy live 'musique concrete' and sample driven insanity a la Zappa's "Porn Wars". The members of Project Object are equally influenced by 20th-21st c. musical rebels like Edgar Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, King Crimson, David Torn, Gong, Can, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Ruins, and so many others...

Headphones Recommended!!!

PS - Seahag's CD is also available here at cdbaby.com/seahag

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  • Excellent Material! YOU NEED THIS!
    author: Robert Kramer

    Don't gauge what you think of todays music by what the corporate boardrooms choose to ram down your throat. Project Object NOT only gives you the desenex burger of excellent FZ music live, they also tap into their own creativity and crank out some great new material that stands on its own! If you're an FZ fan, you'll dig this. If you're not, you'll STILL dig it because its good on its own! Some good tunes here. Buy it and listen.

  • Get this NOW!!!
    author: Joe Bagadonuts

    Exceptional experimental and very interesting. This is just what we need these days! Creativity is NOT dead!

  • I thought the music was unique and different and interesting and good to listen
    author: agostino purpura
  • Great CD. Great jams. Carries the FZ torch.
    author: Charles Barone

    This CD has great jams by an amazing group of musicians playing challenging but very appealing material. "Dream of the Dog" captures Project Object at it's most furious and shows why they are the leading edge of bands carrying on the legacy of Frank Zappa's one-of-a-kind fusion of jazz, rock, and classical music. Gets better with every play.

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