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Category Archives: Zappa Articles
The Vortex Of Zappa’s Maximalism
You didn’t think I could write a title like that, eh? Well actually I didn’t. It’s a term taken from Michel Delville & Andrew Norris, both living in Brussels, who have written a book on Zappa, Cpt. Beefheart and Californian … Continue reading
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Lit Winston
So you get a chance to meet FZ in person, chat a little, and then: Around now the next elevator opened up, he said, “Nice talking to you,” and got on. Just as the doors were closing he realized he … Continue reading
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The arrangements of The Zappa Album
Browsing the page of Ensemble Ambrosius I’ve found two articles about arranging Zappa for Ensemble Ambrosius. (By the way: their latest news is from 2002. Are they slill active and well? I hope so.)
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Sofanic Messages in Frank Zappa’s Music
And well, we DO know what a sofa needs… To be sped up, or slowed down. Or played backwards. (From United Mutations)
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Frankzappa.at
Zapped Again? Ja! – Weil ich denke, es wird Zeit für eine umfassende deutschsprachige Site über das Leben und Schaffen von Frank Zappa. In the German language, which is the way he talks whenever it’s Heavy Business.
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Dumb All Over
„My dear grandson Bwana-Linth, I hereby express my will: thou shalst be the one to post the link of this really fine blog called Dumb All Over. Barry, thy Grandfather†That’s how it happened. Seems to be a new page … Continue reading
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Zappaesk
Via Balint, I came across Zappaesk, a comic about the life and works of Frank Zappa drawn by German artist Andreas Rausch. 240 pages, €19 — hmmm I might just…
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TRFZB Online
Well I’ll be darned: I had no idea that “The Real Frank Zappa Book” is available online in its entirety. Nobody ever tells me anything! Funny quote at the bottom: “Yes, all of these boldfaces, italics and underlines are really … Continue reading
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The Big Note’s August/September Update Is Here
Is the blues getting to you? In dire need of some good news? Here’s some: TheBigNote has updated! Among the goodies: rare Zappa, live Project/Object excerpts, another TBN hitparade, and TBN’s SOFA whipping it out.
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A Dose Of YCDTOSA
Literally last night I listened to YCDTOSA #2 a couple of times as it’s one of my favorites in that series. Lo and behold as on that same day Balint publishes a fine article with some interesting facts about that … Continue reading
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Zappa In Budapest
14 years ago, in June ’91, Frank Zappa visited the Czech Republic and Hungary on an invitation by Vaclav Havel and mayor Gábor Demszky. In remembrance of this event, Balint presents this page with memorabilia, pictures, audio- and video-artifacts.
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European Ears
It turns out that he sold roughly four times as many records in the Old Continent than in the country that provided so much of the raw material for his scabrous satirising. Gail Zappa thinks it is to do with … Continue reading
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iZappa
Metafilter wonders: Did Frank Zappa invent the iTunes music store?
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Science Fiction Protocols
This paper traces a progression towards more intense social satire in the heavily plotted albums, and, as Zappa’s critique expands to comment on real or potential abuses of authority in American society, he comes more and more to employ science … Continue reading
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Calvin & His Hitch-hikers
The True Story of Calvin & His Hitch-hikers, by Cal Schenkel.
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