That was cool. I didn't know Frank had a Swiss cousin.

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

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Thank you for this! I discovered Frank Zappa at age 11 ("Absolutely Free") thanks to my older brother. So great to discover this now, 54 years later. Thank you for sharing this! 🤿♥

I’m so happy to have met Stefan in this lifetime. Truly an amazing soul.

Indeed,thank you, a fascinating tribute. A great discovery!

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome and thanks for watching.

This is great, never heard of him before. What a great discovery! The Swiss Frank Zappa indeed.

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

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Excellent. Thank you for another music appreciation video :)

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome and thanks for watching.

sweet....heading toward a Signer rabbit hole...

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

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Muchisimas gracias por compartir con nosotros esta narracion completada con las obras de Stefan Signes!! Tan diferente es la musica suya y toda ola esta con mucha alma!

While undoubtedly very talented, this made me think about my own risk of idolizing FZ too much. I can almost pinpoint each piece he's referencing.

My first album was Freak-out when I was 12. I later became a rabid fan of XTC and covered a number of their songs in a band. I've learned more than I knew from your analysis of my heroes. No wonder Stefan Signer would send you an original conductor score from Frank Zappa. Thank-you Chanan.

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching.

WOW, Thx Chanan for the presentation of a hidden gem of the music world a soothing balm for the soul.

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome and thanks for watching.

"Mom, can we get Frank Zappa?" "No, we have Frank Zappa at home." Frank Zappa at home...

@cosmikdebris4950

5 ай бұрын

_what?_

@ArenHill

5 ай бұрын

@@cosmikdebris4950 it's a common internet meme about comparing the quality of 2 similar products/brands/etc. In this case, I'm referring to the fact that Stefan is extremely similar to Frank, but lacks the certain something that made Frank who he was.

Excellent

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

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Great ! Thanks !

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

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I have never heard of him...thank you.

What a revelation!! Thank you so much for showing all of us this brilliant man and his work!

i'm on my third viewing of this great video.when you showed the album on my first viewing ,i paused it to hunt for the record.no luck.i hope this can easily be gotten in the future.thanks for more excellent musical knowledge .

HI Chanan always love your videos. Nice one for the introduction to Stefan and his music, i cant believe i have never heard of him or his music. Occasionally you say "yeard" instead of heard. Are you from south wales? I have a friend from south wales that always says it like that. Anyway take it easy

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

Well spotted, yes it's a South Wales accent you have detected. Thanks for your comment, and for watching. Best wishes.

amazing talent! unique compositions. love it!!

..."what is behind that curtain" ... still a lot of interesting stuff to be discovered ... !!! THANK YOU for digging deep !!!

Thanks for informing us about Stefan - I’d never heard of him until now! On another artist adjacent to Zappa, have you looked into Tim Smith (Cardiacs)?

how funny! such a remarkable country fellow i never heard of… thank you for posting this! ❤

Cal Schenkel didn't do the artwork for Over-Nite Sensation, that was David B. McMacken.

@veitstauffer9044

5 ай бұрын

But Cal Schenkel made the Inside Gatefold Illustration!

@Annellsson

5 ай бұрын

@@veitstauffer9044 Yes, but I'm pretty sure Chanan was thinking of the cover. Cover illustration: David B. McMacken Graphics: Cal Schenkel Photography: Emerson-Loew

Excelent work! I want research more about him and his music. But... Remind me a lot... Frank Zappa mixed Edgar Varese in a feel moments.

@infrasteff7124

4 ай бұрын

www.youtube.com/@infrasteff7124/videos

Hello, first of all, thank you for the work you do on the great composers of our time and their music on your channel. I wanted to ask for your help because I would like to purchase the two Red Devil Band albums and the I'm Alive! album, but I can't find where, could you help me with this? Greetings from Madrid, Spain!

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. Stefan is currently working on making his music more widely available, but in the meantime you can check out more of his music here: memobase.ch/de/search?filter%5Bcollection%5D%5B0%5D=Tondokumente%20aus%20dem%20Privatarchiv%20Stefan%20Signer

Really interesting. Thank you, Chanan. Some people stay under your radarfor a very long time and then you discover a whole world at once. Amazing. Switzerland has produced some very original artists: there's the quirky pop-art guys from Yello, the master painter H.R. Giger, the avant garde trash metal of Celtic Frost and now this guy. It does sound incredibly like FZ at times. Some people commented that they thought it's some kind of parody. Even if it is, it's somebody who really knows his Zappa and who is able to use it to his own advantage. Pretty impressive.

@infrasteff7124

5 ай бұрын

Your are right! The ingredients in the Swiss cooking pot sometimes allow strange-smelling artists to bubble to the surface

@splankhoon

5 ай бұрын

@@infrasteff7124 Da gibts etwas bizarr im Alpenluft ;-) . Thanks, man.

I wonder why he has not made is music properly available for people to discover?

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

Stefan is currently working on making his music more widely available, but in the meantime you can check out more of his music here: memobase.ch/de/search?filter%5Bcollection%5D%5B0%5D=Tondokumente%20aus%20dem%20Privatarchiv%20Stefan%20Signer

@HakanTunaMuzik

5 ай бұрын

@@ChananHanspalexcellent, I did check out the links you already posted, some great music there.

@ChananHanspal

5 ай бұрын

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en ärnschti Sach...! Grossartig!

The Prophet doesn’t count much in his Hometown: I have seen him only once in the 80ties in Effretikon, a small Town close to Zürich. Even among Swiss Zappa Fans he did not get much Recognizition. Gold Label was one of the least hip Label in Switzerland what did not help the sales Stefan Signer’s Records. I have to admit: I never bought one of his Records. The Concert I saw in Effretikon was fun and good as far as my Memory tells me.

It's interesting if one person or band make music very similar to someone else they often get pinned as derivative. If you get a few more then it becomes a genre of its own and the perspective changes. This guy is incredibly talented and by referencing Zappa so effectively (as Zappa himself with so many other genres) it actually helps one to understand better the essence of some of Frank's music. Really fascinating just wish it was easier to get hold of his music!

@infrasteff7124

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this nice assessment. That's the crux of the matter, which explains a lot: if you have a few more, then it becomes a genre of its own and the perspective changes. That's what happened with Schönberg and 12-tone music, for example. The so-called "Viennese School" multiplied through many composers. But you can also learn the "Zappa school of composition". It is not impossible to get hold of my music, even if only the tip of the iceberg has been published. If you have special interests, perhaps I can help you?

@markknoop777

5 ай бұрын

@@infrasteff7124 respect! Just seen some has been uploaded to KZread recently. Looking forward to exploring it!

"I love Zappa and Stravinsky more than AC/DC..." Who doesn't?

The hirherto unknown Swiss Zappa-Doppelgänger.

on one hand it's sad that his work will be forever seen in the shadow of Zappa but he chose not to embrace an individual voice. First rule of an artist: "NEVER wear your influences on your sleeve" too bad 'cause he has great talent.

@infrasteff7124

5 ай бұрын

You have a small window open here from the entire window front of my house. You'd be surprised how far removed from Zappa it can sound. But thank you for your kind attention.

Fascinating stuff: You could almost call Steff The OTHER Frank Zappa. His music sounds as if, in a grand act of Conceptual Continuity, FZ's music had been cut apart into a million pieces way down at the granular phrase level, and then re-assembled, but re-assembled MUSICALLY - producing songs and compositions that sound recognizably Zappa, yet are completely unfamiliar. Perhaps like the work of the FZ one or two timelines over.

@infrasteff7124

5 ай бұрын

That is a very precise analysis and sounds good to me. Zappa's music is a system that can be clearly defined. There is also the Stravinsky system and then the 12-tone music system introduced to the world by Arnold Schönberg, which not only Schönberg but dozens of other composers besides Anton Webern or Alban Berg used or use and create something new and unique from it. And in a completely different place, not represented in this video, there is even the Stefan Signer system, which is different again.

An old music "friend" for atomic shelters...

This could be the soundtrack to the Zappa parody movie (i.e. the Ruttles) that no one will ever make.

Swiss Zappa...

Sounds to me like he's copied Zappas style or been very influenced by Frank

I don’t know what this says about the times we live in, or about me, but I thought this might be some kind of a hoax, possibly aided by so-called AI, given how zappaesque the music is, talent notwithstanding…

@scrambaba

5 ай бұрын

not sure why you would think that…explain

@sknob

5 ай бұрын

Because nearly everything sounded like a slightly modified Zappa piece, and because AI has ruined reality for everybody. Could’ve been some.kind of parody à la Rutles.

@CP-ku4yx

5 ай бұрын

Not everything is fake news or AI generated nowadays.

Nice to see AI is evolving a sense of humour. Are there any actual people left out there? Just use the secret sign that only we know.