Organ Thing of The Day: “My piece “Scorpion Ballet” for oboe, bassoon, percussion, synthesizer and double bass (seen here replaced by electric cello!) was premiered at the Mostly Modern Festival. Thank you Robert Paterson et al. for letting me sneak a barely disguised rock composition into your classical festival, and a big thank you to Georgia Mills‘ laser-sharp conducting for bringing the piece to life!” so said New York’s Zachary Detrict just now as he sent us off down his rabbit hole…

And here’s some more…

Meanwhile, hang on, what’s this? Zachary Detrick’s Filibuster Saloon is a band inspired by my love of Frank Zappa, Chick Corea, Captain Beefheart, Gutbucket, The Residents, Kansas, Henry Cow, Gentle Giant, Hatfield and the North, Soft Machine, Gryphon, Samla Mammas Manna, and National Health.

And…

and now we’re grtting to it…

And well now we can’t resist, Zachary really has sent us down a rabbit hole now, was’t expecting iy to take us here..

And “Beautiful Soup” – Music by Zachary Detrick, text by Lewis Carroll. Juilliard Composer’s Concert Feb 11, 2019 Lydia Graham, soprano; Sasha Kasman, piano; Zachary Detrick, accordion

And well, here’s his website – Zachary Detrict and there he is down there and there’s lots more to explore on his website or his Facebook, which in turn is where we found his Scorpion Ballet piece posted this afternoon..