Book written by Alain Jamot, a French composer living in Berlin. This book is #1 in a series of three books by Alain Jamot "Musique et Concept", which consist of books about Frank Zappa, Philip Glass and David Bowie.

Prologue
I've never believed in mystical revelation. Yet, there's something close to it in the way Frank Zappa entered my life. It wasn't a divine light, nor an inner shock, but a discreet crack, a gap in reality that opened one day between two columns of an old issue of Rock & Folk . It was the end of the 70s. I must have been fourteen or fifteen. At that age, you look in music for what you can't find elsewhere: rage, intelligence, escape, transgression. And sometimes all of these at the same time. (read more)

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Prologue. L'alchimiste du chaos.
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Alain Jamot @ Soundbetter
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