Mothers Of Invention Keyboardist Don Preston To Embark On First European Solo Tour

Don Preston, best known as the keyboardist with Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, will be touring Europe later this month. Preston leads a life filled with music, innovation, and experimentation in acoustic and electronic music. He was one of the first performers to drag a pile of oscillators and filters onstage. In the early 60s, Zappa would come to see Preston’s “electronic music with films of bacterial life” shows in Los Angeles. Soon, Preston was part of Zappa’s radical new group The Mothers Of Invention, touring and playing on classics like We're Only In It For The Money and Roxy & Elsewhere from 1966 to 1973.

Preston has played with everyone from Elvin Jones, Gil Evans, and Nat King Cole to The Residents, Jack Bruce and Robbie Krieger.  His keyboard solos on Zappa albums, as well as countless soundtracks like Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, are considered ground-breaking moments in synthesizer music history.

Still very active in his 90s, Preston was there for the dawn of electronic musical performance, and today grafts new technologies into his experimental palette with software synths & iPhone apps, blending jazz, rock, comedy, magic and ambient synths into a captivating performance.

DON PRESTON SOLO EUROPEAN TOUR

9/24 Porgy & Bess Vienna

9/25 Prague Czech

9/26 Prague Czech

9/27 Broumod Under

9/29 NordHausen, Germany

9/30 Bb (Jazz Club) Berlin, Germany

10/2 Weert, Netherland

10/3 Russelsheim, Germany

10/5 Brussels, Belgium

10/6 Stuttgart, Germany

Fort more info, visit Don Preston on Facebook.