Nuovo Sound
Automatic translation: The new Zappian opera "Roxy and Elsewhere" confirms
the predictions made a few months ago about Frank's musical
orientation. It was said that his creative streak would not
stop, despite the ambiguous "Over-nite sensation" and "Apostrophe"
which could be considered as moments of relaxation in the American
artist's musical research. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: After the not exciting rehearsals of "Over nite sensation"
and "Apostrophe" (not exciting considering the usual level of
Zappa's work, of course) and the double live "Roxy and elsewhere",
good but not exceptional, the mustachioed American guitarist
having returned almost to the old heights with "One size fits
all", his most recent album. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Once again the great FRANK is talking about himself.
His latest work "One size fits all" is yet another masterpiece
of his: which makes us forget the various Apostrophe, Roxy and
Elsewhere, where Uncle Frank's grin turns into an insipid laugh. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: ... the skill of Beefheart and Zappa, in addition
to the technical preparation of the current Mothers, make this
record one of the best works of the year ... (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Frank Zappa got us used to surprises. Years ago he
said he had in mind a sequence of ten albums all of great expressive
level, all revolutionary and with a basic logic glued to the
Appiano world alone. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Despite the not entirely positive criticisms of his
latest works, the mustachioed guitarist presented, during the
recent European tour, a show that certainly lives up to his
traditions. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Surrounded by the usual 'handful' of 'monsters' (of
skill, of course!) the ever-great Frank Zappa returns to the
record market with a double album that, even without being the
best of his vast discography, manages, as usual, to involve
the listener, transporting him to an absurd world, imbued with
irony and sarcasm, in short, in the inimitable Zappian microcosm.
(read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Here is Frank Zappa for example. A judgment on him moves with an uncertain step between the quicksand of genius and mystification. A skilled manipulator of sounds and mixers of relationships, he is perhaps the only composer, in the classical sense of the term, expressed by rock music. Equally skilled as a promoter and financier of himself within the business, he gives rise to prying question marks. (read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Which one accused Frank Zappa of not being in possession
of the irony of the past, of having 'become bourgeois'; personally
I don't know if this is true, but there can be no doubt about
one fact: when he decides to give free rein to his technical
qualities, Frank proves without a doubt that he is still one
of the greatest musicians in business. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
1979 June
Vol. 6 No. 6
Frank
Zappa e Lou Reed - Il gatto e la volpe del pop
By Raffaello Carabini, pp 46-49
Automatic translation: Since, a few issues ago, we dedicated a retrospective to them in 'The greats of pop', of various events; they overlap in the artistic life of the two. Among them the release of new albums and two long European tours which Nuovo Sound attended. (read more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: First volume of a series consisting of two albums
(the second of which double) made by the whimsical American
guitarist during 1979: CBS publishes them on our market a few
weeks apart from each other so we will talk about them in two
stages. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore
Automatic translation: Unlike many other 'sacred monsters' of the international
music scene, Frank Zappa always manages to reaffirm his exceptional
artistic skills that have allowed him in all these years to
never repeat himself, even when - as is the case with this double
album - his already known songs. (read
more)
Source: Fulvio Fiore