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FRAZKNAPP PROFILE : 2008 Growing up through the 70s/80s in London, with a music mad father gave me an early passion for free music! Experimental music was always around and allowed me to discover alternative methods and theories on how to project various styles of music. Because my dad was a guitarist, I used to hang out with him at gigs and festivals from an early age, which soon led to an appetite for the loudest instrument on stage - the drums! So I've been playing ever since I was first able to ask Santa for my first drum kit! I started listening to The Police and air-drumming to Copelands rhythms which soon led to an interest in all of Sting's drummers - most of them from the jazz world (Omar Hakim / Vinnie Coliuta/Manu Katche). After following these musicians I soon found such bands as Weather Report, Frank Zappa, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu),mixinging my ears with some Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix in between. I started playing properly at about 13 years old and toured around France with a jazz trio called WildBlue witch was my father's project. Moving down to the South West of England in my early youth sparked a lot of creativity that I still actively tap into to this day. I have been inspired by lots of geniuses on my travels, many of them from the hills of Devon! Around the age of 18 my music took me back to London where I regularly worked the live music circuit, also slaving myself to the record industry for a few years where I ironically found an interest in writing music. Deciding that the countryside seemed a more inspirational place to write, I became involved with a few local projects in Devon, gigging myself to death around the coasts - but enjoyed every minute! I've worked around Europe and the States in a wide range of projects from performance to music and have done my time with the Brittany fleet, P&O ships on the trusty old Europe crossings for a year or so, then moved up to the glamorous world of Haven holiday camps - 6 nights a week, all for the sake of getting some bucks (darn good practice though). Been playing up and down the country ever since in a diverse tapestry of bands, ranging from Rock-Reggae-Funk-Acidjazz-Jazz Fusion - original and covers. I have also been working on projects in Germany and America currently experimenting with a Collaborative Creative Production idea, to be able to network artists to artists. More info at the maliart link. I've met some top musos through my life so far, who taught me to open my ears on how I approach my playing on the drums. "Improvisational Internal Combustion" Thay said, Means: "To play what the hell you like, when you like, however you like, until you cant play any more". Seems to suit me down to the ground.

Various artists perform 20 different versions of Frank Zappa's "The Idiot Bastard Son!

20 Extraordinary Renditions - The Idiot Bastard Son.

20 different versions of the song by Frank Zappa performed by: Die Beistelltische, Freedom In Hats, André Cholmondeley, DOOT! Ensemble Ambrosius, Evil Dick & The Banned Members, Jerry Outlaw, John Tabacco, Monty & The Butchers, Nigey Lennon, Oldgreygoat And His Girls, Pojama People, Project/Object, The FoolZ, The FrazKnapp Fusion Project, The Thurston Lava Tube, The Vegetarians, The Wrong Object Vs, The Friendly Dogs, Todd Grubbs Group feat. Bo Smith, The Whip It Out Ensemble.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/cordeliarecordst's a really great album. Each track is certainly unique, so don't expect the same track played over and over again as it is not like that.

You will be amazed. You will be astounded at the sheer brilliance of how one song can be performed in so many other ways.

Do yourself and your record collection, along with your ears a favour and buy this album. I believe it's a limited run, so get it now. Don't sit there in a few years time wishing, or worse, paying a fortune for it, just get it now while you have this chance and maybe it will go for a second pressing.

It is certainly the best album of the year for me so far. My judgement is based on repeated playings and this one certainly works.

We're now off on another journey through time and space...Fraz Knapp came up with the wizard wheeze of following-up the unqualified success that was the 20 Extraordinary Renditions CD. And Cordelia Records is happy to do the biznis again. So I'm now liaising with 20 artists, asking them to condense the whole of the Burnt Weeny Sandwich album into a 3-5 minute piece - with as much artistic licence as they want. They don't have to use a bit from every song, but at least something from their fave bits of this wondrous album. Once done, Pete Brunelli of DOOT! will twiddle knobs to concoct a remix of extracts from the 20 resultant pieces to create a whole new 21st interpretation of the album. Already on board are:

David Lugay;DOOT!;Evil Dick And The Banned Members;Fraz Knapp;Gamma;Hans Annellsson;J21 (aka Joseph Diaz);Jerry Outlaw (of Bogus Pomp);Lee Rosevere (the artist formerly known as Fudge). Low Budget Research Kitchen; Nigey Lennon;Princess Helen and the Amazing Mr Bickerton; Richard Walshe & Co.;Roddie Gilliard (of the Muffin Men); The FoolZ;The Moving Tones;The Thurston Lava Tube;Todd Grubbs;ZAPPATiKA.

Another wonderful sleeve concept is already evolving in the foolish young mind of our Hazel. Here already (at Leaky Coconut studios) are Hans’ Igor’s Holiday In The Little House By The Sea and Lee Rosevere’s Burning Of The Sand Witch. And here also is Dick's evil plan: "I'm going to take the album and, using the 'time scale' function on my computer, squeeze the whole thing down to a 5 minute sound file. I'm expecting it to sound truly awful. Then I'm going to use that as a template around which I will arrange some sort of version of the album. This might be too ambitious, but what the..." Evil has now actually sent me the album squashed down to 5 minutes and it really doesn't sound that awful - much more like a Nancarrow player piano piece.