ZAPPA, FRANK – 200 Motels Synth-pop drama and exotica

drama and exotica

it’s a fair bet it’ll do the trick for you

Long ago we lost all capacity to be surprised that this sturdy unit keeps putting out records and that they’re really good

out-of-this-world best

recording and mixing the entire record himself from the backyard confines of his home in the college town of Chico

ZAPPA, FRANK – 200 Motels Synth-pop drama and exotica"Years in the making, 1971s 200 Motels was one of the most ambitious projects of Frank Zappas remarkable career. It eventually took the form of a groundbreaking feature film and a daring and eclectic double album on which electric blues and psychedelic pop rubbed shoulders with nods to modern classical composers Edgard Varse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern. It could only have been made by Frank Zappa in 1971 an uncompromising satire of the music