“Sinister Footwear II“ by Frank Zappa, performed by The NakedEye Ensemble.

Tribeca New Music presents the NakedEye ensemble performing Jerome Kitzke’s “Mad Coyote Madly Sings,“ at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC. The music in Frank Zappa’s Sinister Footwear II appeared in several contexts in his output, including as a part of a three-movement ballet and within the live set of his touring bands in the late 70s. Zappa’s music calls for a unique kind of mastery, of rhythmic complexity in a groove-oriented, driving rhythmic context. The taut unison rhythms, overlapping percolating loops, and whammy bar-infused guitar solo in Mike Bitts’ 2015 arrangement for NakedEye capture the enthusiasm for eclecticism that characterized Zappa and his cohort. —NakedEye The NakedEye Ensemble: Ju-Ping Song, piano; Matthew Angelo, flute; Christy Banks, clarinet; Ryan Kauffman, saxophone; Daniel Lippel, guitar; Andy Thierauf, percussion; Peter Kibbe, cello; Mike Bitts, bass.