DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
Groundbreaking music gets new lease of life 50 years on
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MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
FIFTY years ago, Frank Zappa declared that: “The present day composer refuses to die.” How true, and half a century on from the release of his iconic Hot Rats LP, the drum-roll intro on the album’s opening track Peaches En Regalia still makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up.
This six-disc boxed set from Zappa Records and his studio creation Utility Research Kitchen compiles every composition recorded in several days in July 1969 when the album was made and it's filled with unedited and studio mixes, outtakes, period radio adverts and nuggets from Zappa’s vaults.
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