Musica e dischi
Automatic translation: There has been much talk, even in Italy, of Frank
Zappa and his team of soloists (whose staff is unstable, but
"open", continuously variable) which he baptized with the name
of Mothers of Invention: but the recordings through which this
surprising group is known in Italy can give only a faint idea
of the "revolution" it wrought in the American musical world.
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Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: More than ever under the banner of the bizarre, the
eclectic Frank Zappa and his "mothers of invention" return to
the scene, to offer us a small half-burnt "musical sandwich",
stuffed with those found that continue to create a sensation
around this unpredictable complex: even if Zappa seems to be
more contained here than usual, his taste for paradox does not
fail to leave its mark, in more than one passage. (read
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Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Short
news: Already famous in America, Frank Zappa is now preparing
to make himself known also in Europe. He has just finished shooting
a film (made in five days) and has performed in Paris at the
Gaumont theater where he has achieved an amazing success. The
title of his latest LP is «Chunga's revenge».
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Framing Frank Zappa's music exactly would mean wanting
to schematize at all costs, since in fact what he has been proposing
for several years is something that combines the most disparate
musical forms known, and in particular the "contemporary" music
of Edgar Varese , Stockhausen, etc., "free jazz", rock, electronic
music and an infinity of other genres and sub-genres (not excluding
operetta and musicals). It is therefore not something that can
be easily assimilated and indeed often leaves a little disconcerted,
but undoubtedly seeing everything from a certain "angle" is
also stimulating and often exciting. In this recent LP we also
find the Mothers and the Royal Philarmonic.
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: The European tour of Frank Zappa and his «Mothers
of Invention» was definitely unfortunate. After the success
of their latest album "Mothers live at the Fillmore" in America,
the Mothers, of which Frank Zappa (pictured above) is the founder,
leader, etc., had decided to personally supervise the launch
in Europe with a tour that would have had to touch Austria,
Germany, Italy, Holland, France and England. For Italy it was
a single show, in Bologna on December 29, with the resumption
of the same by the television. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: For many, for some time now, the name of this eccentric artist has been an irreplaceable symbol, and in fact one cannot deny his remarkable musical and "physical" personality. However, not always everything he produced and recorded has met expectations: in particular the latest LP's, showed a certain tiredness of inspiration and some decidedly negative forcing in relation to what he had done at the beginning of his career. (read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Among the singers who have been awarded the Critics'
Prize this year also Frank Zappa, the animator of the Mothers,
perhaps the most talked about character in all contemporary
music. The assignment of this recognition cannot fail to surprise
a little how many, in recent years, have followed the criteria
with which these prizes were distributed, especially for pop
music. With the awarding of the mustachioed American singer-composer,
the award itself acquires more credibility and prestige today.
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Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: La
touree di Frank Zappa. At the end of August Frank Zappa,
who this year was awarded by the National Association of Record
Critics for his LP "The Grand Wazoo" came to Italy to perform,
together with his group The Mothers of lnvention, in Rome and
Bologna. Frank Zappa's discography published in Italy currently
includes the following discs: "Weasel ripped my flesh" (MS 2028),
"Chunga's revenge" (MS 2030), "Hot Rats" (MS 6356), "The Grand
Wazoo" ( K 44209), "Burnt wery sandwich" (K 44083), "FilImore
East" (K 44150), "Just another band from LA "(K 44179) and"
Waka Jawaka "(K 44203), all distributed by Dischi Ricordi.
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Each Frank Zappa record represents a big event for the musical world; but while until recently such an event always coincided with contrasting, violent and absolute stances in their unconditional support and in their visceral condemnation, now it seems that the brilliant Californian composer no longer raises around his figure and his work so many clamors; or rather, let's say that Frank Zappa has now become universally accepted as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musical expression of pop. (read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: A
September of pop Frank Zappa's first Italian tour and
the Villa Pamphili pop festival in Rome were the culminating
events of a September that was certainly not stingy with satisfactions
for pop music fans. Frank Zappa came to Italy with a new group
consisting of Tom Fowler, bass; George Duke, keyboards; Chester
Thompson, Napoleon Murphy and Ruth Underwood, marimba, timpani
and percussion. For once, even Milan, a city that for reasons
of public order is generally cut off from the "circle" of great
pop concerts, was able to host a concert by a leading artist
such as Frank Zappa. Zappa's tour took place in the first ten
days of September. In the third decade, from 20 to 24, the pop
Festival of Villa Pamphlll took place in Rome, which followed
the formula tested in the first edition, in May '72: a real
"uninterrupted concert", eight hours a day , from 16 to midnight,
with the participation of about forty artists and musical groups.
(Among others: Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Jumbo, Ibis, Edoardo
Bennato, Perigeo, Angelo Branduardi, Salis, Aktuala, Duo di
Piadena, Rosa Balistreri, Stomu Yamashta's Eastwind, Procol
Harum, Soft Machine, Shawn Phillips, etc.)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: The last Zappa. The September tour
(remember the cities visited: Rome, Udine, Bologna and Milan)
further centered the interest on Frank Zappa, the artist who
for several years has had an indisputable weight in avant-garde
music. Flattering sales successes were achieved by the albums
"Over-nite sensations" and "Apostrophe": a good omen for the
new double album by Zappa & Mothers, entitled "Roxy &
Elsewhere", released under the Discreet label (K 89200) and
distributed on our market by Dischi Ricordi.
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: ZAPPA: "Zoot
allures" (Warner Bros W 56298). The "eaters" have long
since caused considerable damage to the myth of Frank, but he,
undeterred and convinced that he is outside any schematization,
continues to churn out products that always have a certain amount
of originality. The latter is not exactly such because to a
sound that at various times recalls the more general one of
"hard rock" (and in particular Alice Cooper), it adds counterfeit
little voices which, except for verification of the texts not
included, have the purpose of deceiving who listens.
Source: Fulvio Fiore