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Music Alive: Bobby Zankel and the Wonderful Sound Six
August 10 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Description (from host)
Modern Music for Keyboards, Synthesizers and more. Cosmic Ambience Jazz and Blues, Rooted in the Past and Future. Philadelphia History with “A Change of Destiny,” Zankel’s Music Examines the Lives of Slaves Kept by George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia.
The performance will take place in Market Square, located on Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19144 between Schoolhouse Lane and Church Lane. Show will begin at 4PM. Bring Your Own Picnic & Seating.
In 1980, movie director Don Dohler made a horror movie called Fiend, creating sort of a new shocking creature apart of the classic Frankenstein or the Dracula/vampire cliche; the fiend was meant to be a “genuine new fantasy creation, complete with its own legend and style”, according to the director’s own words. Delaware born multi-instrumentalist Paul Woznicki was in task to make this beautiful synth jazz/funk instrumental soundtrack album, which he released in the ’80s under the name of “Woz”. American record label WT Records found a copy of the album in a dirty basement complete with newspaper clippings and a business card. They track the still active musician down and stepped up to give this lost gem a wider release. The record overall has a wide music approach, “from schizophrenic drum machine dissonance to dreamy, soothing soundtracks”, as WT Records briefly describes it.
Paul Woznicki was also involved in a number of difference dance projects, including modern-tap-ballet-butoh-flamenco and belly dance. His gypsy jazz band has been doing belly dance shows. When he was 26 years old, Paul built two robots, as ‘crowd pleasers’, go-go dancers Mergua and Blinky. The self-taught electronic wizard said he’s always thought about building a robot, but when he saw Star Wars, he knew he had to have one.
Presenting his advancedand unclassifiable music, from jazz to obscure psychedelic tones and riffs, funk and dub-ish wrteched beats – not to be missed!
