DON PRESTON ex Frank Zappa koncert v Edenu

Name: DON PRESTON ex Frank Zappa koncert v Edenu
Start: 09/26/2024
End: 09/27/2024

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27. zář 2024 0:00 - 27. zář 2024 20:00

Underground Klub Eden, Žižkova, Broumov 1, Czechia

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DON PRESTON (92): FIRST SOLO-CONCERTS IN EUROPE

Don Preston, the first keyboardist of Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention,

synthesizer pioneer, film music composer, living legend, is coming to Europe a few

days after his 92nd birthday for some exclusive solo concerts.

Improvisational, spontaneous, wild and yet somnambulistically perfect. The

Mothers' level of playing was unrivaled at the end of the sixties. Preston and Zappa

shared an irrepressible desire for the unconventional, for example odd time

signatures. "We never played four quarters or three-quarter bars, but fives, sevens,

nines, elevens, up to nineteen." Being the son of the house composer of the Detroit

Symphony Orchestra, Don Preston took piano lessons early on, then studied

orchestral arrangement and was already playing with jazz greats like Yusef Lateef

and Elvin Jones in the fifties.

And fascinated by electronic music from composers like Luciano Berio, Preston

belonged to the electronic avant-garde, progressing through constant

experimentation. He was also pioneering with a self-made synthesizer, long before

such instruments came onto the market. But what most keyboard players in rock

and pop did with the Moog synthesizer, bored him. Preston: “I didn't get a

synthesizer to play Bach or the latest hits. I wanted to produce sounds that no one

had heard before.“

After his time with Zappa, Preston continued to move in avant-garde areas. Among

many other collaborations, he played in jazz composer Carla Bley's band and

became a sought-after film music composer, for example for Francis Ford-

Coppola's Vietnam drama “Apocalypse Now“.

From the 1990s onwards, Preston released his own albums. There are eight so far,

doing justice to the creative openness that his name stands for. From jazz-rock

escapades to electronic soundscapes to jazz with the Don Preston Trio – always

with the necessary extravagance to escape any format. Preston still composes,

experiments with new electronic tools, practices the piano for two hours a day,

keeps fit with yoga and tennis. And breeds praying mantises, which fascinate him

because they can turn their heads all the way round.

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