Musica, rock & altro!
1995 May 10
No. 8
Immortale
Zappastory
By Riccardo Berrtoncelli, p 17
Opera
omnia, zappiani di tutto il mondo unitevi
By Ale Sordi, pp 1, 17
Automatic translation: In recent weeks Frank Zappa has been accepted into the American Music Hall of Fame, the ideal association that brings together the Immortals of rock music. He arrived there after so many meteorites in rock history, he who was a planet, and so large as to be visible to the naked eye at a long distance. But anyway: public recognition has never been a highlight of Zappian history and then he, an old grumpy autonomist, was not the type to mind such trifles. (read more)
Source: slime.oofytv.set
Automatic translation: [...]
YELLOW SHARK - Frank Zappa
The last great work of him. He had a top group. The clarity
of pure madness. A great skill. With the right hand he
conducts with Elmore James, with the left together with
Stravinsky.
TROUT MASK REPLICA - Captain Beefheart
The roughest diamond in the mine. His inventions are made of
bone and mud. If you enter the "matrix" of his mind, you
will lose your sense. For serious listeners, Beefheart
cannot miss. An expedition to the center of the earth. Drink
it once and you will never be thirsty again. [...]
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Zappa has been dead for 9 years and at least 5 years since he disappeared from the news lists; in a five-year period a single anthology of unpublished works came out, moreover never arrived in stores. A sign of exemplary seriousness and rare record moderation? (read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Almost ten years after the expulsion of the volcanic Maestro, two "guided" anthologies of his vast repertoire are about to come out. What risks? (read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore