ZELLER in 'ZEU BOCAL'... avec un "Z" comme "ZAPPA" ! "Oh No ! ... just another Frank Zappa memorial barbecue !"              Lire également l'article d'Alain Vildart [...] On y trouve notamment le sarcastique Mr Green Genes, et le musclé King Kong, sur lequel Laurent prend un solo de violon wah wah complètement halluciné. Les gars du bocal on fait un travail extraordinaire de mise en place [...] [...] As it always was. Instrumentally, this band has all the polish and muscle of Zappa’s last road band, as the first version of ‘Oh No!’ testifies, but that eternal favourite ‘King Kong’ produces one of the album’s highlights in the shape of ‘guest’ Laurent Zeller. Once the band have laid down the stately theme Zeller’s violin simply sizzles with sustain and electricity, though not like Jean Luc Ponty or Sugarcane Harris did. This sounds more like a Zappa guitar solo transmuted via some arcane process into one of the most exciting violin sounds I’ve heard in a long time. [...] Whatever we conceive well, we express clearly... [...] (I think this is an excellent way to approach the guitar on this cd, as Zappa was one of the few melodic and consistantly interesting "rock" style soloists on guitar, IMO). [...] No imitation here, just innovation. 2 highlights solo-wise, first the Herbie Hancock / Keith Jarret - inspired piano solo from Rita on "Blessed Relief". The second , a real treat. On "King Kong" (which is not treated as the airy 6/8 performance from"Uncle Meat", but as a lumbering funk-infused rendition), the solo begins, you cannot decipher what instrument it is! No, not keyboards, not guitar. What it is, is Laurents unique "Jimi Hendrix meets Sun Ra at Pete Coseys place" electric VIOLIN ! Sugarcane Harris on LSD, Jean Luc Ponty in the crazyloco institution! It really makes this track "fly"! Another revelation, the composition "Take your Clothes Off...", from the "... In It For the Money" recording , which might appear, first glance, to be a throwaway track. [...] www.lespommesdemadouche.com