FRANCESCO ZAPPA

This little oddity in Frank Zappa's catalog is different from any album the master ever made. It contains music the frank found, composed by a previously little known Italian composer from the 18th century by the name of Franceso Zappa. Despite the somewhat tongue in cheek biography in the liner notes, Francesco did exist (look him up).

The music, programmed on Frank's Synclavier, is quite similar to the mathematical composisions of Bach, and provide some nice background music. Frank chose to use mostly tuned percussive sounds for Opus I giving it a much more modern sound than the more traditional Opus IV.

I happen to like this type of music at times. But if you don't go for baroque, skip it.