Missing our Mother’s Day Zappathon? Find it at https://tinyurl.com/Zappa2024

Are you looking for Flotation Device's 2024 Mother's Day spectacular, featuring Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention? Due to Mixcloud's licensing restrictions on tribute shows, we've published it at SoundCloud instead so you can get your Zappa fix whenever you need it. Go to https://tinyurl.com/Zappa2024 for two hours of the classic '67–68 Mothers lineup, the 1970 Hot Rats band and the Spring '73 touring nonet that paved the way for the legendary Roxy shows that year. Three new archival albums from the Zappa estate help to illuminate this music with a trove of previously-unreleased nuggets. And as always, we emphasize the exploratory, improvisational side of Zappa’s music—the perfect thing for those enthralled by, or ambivalent toward, the Zappa oeuvre.

Thanks, and see you back at Mixcloud on June 4 for our next regularly-scheduled podcast.

Flotation Device brings you creative and improvised music from the Northwest and beyond with host Michael Schell. Thanks for following us, and keeping us at or near the top of Mixcloud’s rankings for classical music, jazz, chillout, industrial and noise music. And catch us live every Sunday night 10pm to Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS HD1 Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.

Photo credits: cover to We’re Only in It for the Money, the Mothers in 1973 (George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Ian Underwood, Sal Marquez, Jean-Luc Ponty, Tom Fowler, Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood) by Sam Emerson, Frank Zappa by Sam Emerson, Don Preston via the Zappa estate, Peter Eötvös by Jean-Francois Leclercq, Larry Stein and Frank Zappa at US Senate 1985, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Musikfabrik at Zappanale Festival 2019.