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THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION: ONE SIZE FITS ALLFrank ZappaRIO/Avant-Prog4.31 | 1164 ratings |
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![]() "Inca Roads" starts with an exceptional swing, with the xylophone playing an Andes melody, like the ones we here in Chile and Peru, and a lot of noises from a synthesizer on the back. Well that's the musical representation for the lyrics, giving the idea of a flying saucer landing in the Andes (Machu Picchu?). Genial! Then Zappa's weird and schizophrenic rhythms on his solo. This is where the firs Lydian appears and, because of the way Zappa plays it, it even reminds Mixolydian. Again it's genial. After that solo and the great vocal part, the song sounds a little tiring. Zappa explores all the musicians' technique along the rest of the song, with enormous improvisations, accelerated and irregular tempos. "Can't Afford no Shoes" gives our minds a rest after all the pyrotechnics in the first track. It's a simple, major tone, rock n' roll like song. It's a funny song. Fuzzy guitar sound and solo? very fast thing? "Sofa nº 1" mixes German like erudite music with Rhythm and Blues. It's an epic, yet funny composition. Its execution is perfect, with all the instruments working together as a mass of sound, that's typical for Zappa, an orchestral vein. "Po-Jama People" is another funny song. I admit I don't understand it's joke and the games with the words (if someone can explain it to me, please do it). The blues introduction is beautiful, but the song is kind of boring. I don't like this one as much as the others. "Florentine Pogen" pleases me a lot. It's a simple composition, usual time signature and simple tones, between A Dorian and E Aeolian. Cool. Who impresses here is Napoleon Murphy Brock, a very crazy guy, with a great singing and playing skill. In this song he screams, sings "La, la, la" and plays great saxophone parts. His interpretation of the song needs no explanation. Great song indeed. There's an essential live version of it on "Dub Room Special". "Evelyn, a Modified Dog" is used by Zappa for showing off. Difficult and complex time signatures, mostly atonal, Schoenberg's vocals? Well, he can do it, why shouldn't he? "San Ber'dino" Again, as a Brazilian guy, I don't understand the joke. But musically it's another funny rock n' roll song, with great vocals and guitar sounds. "Andy" starts with an epic melody and great parts in the rhythmic session, drum and bass work together like a machine gun, shooting, stopping, and shooting again. This is brilliant and very difficult to reproduce. Some irregular tempo vocals come to complete the mess. Like this one, some of Zappa's lyrics express some kind of hard feeling and I don't like that? But the song is great, anyway. Mostly Lydian as well. Beautiful, anyway. "Sofa nº2" is the grand finale? Same song as nº1, but with some weird German singing, sometimes like an Opera. It couldn't end better than this. Well, that's all folks. This is my first review and I hope you like it... Sorry if there's any misspelling or anything.
Leo Milani |
5/5 |
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