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Dec 16 '06
Pros: Rapid, complex polyrhythmic and polytonal music played with android-like precision
Cons: Lacks the dynamics and stylization of music produced by human musicians
Summary: Jazz From Hell is mainly music written for a synthesizer – a synclavier to be precise. Only one of the album's eight tracks is performed by human musicians. Zappa had always complained about the imprecision of the musicians with whom he ...
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Jul 19 '00
Pros: damn good music, kid!
Cons: synth, short, studio (if you like live music)
Summary: I don't know if you can like this if you're not already a Zappa fan. And if you're a Zappa fan and hate his non-guitar stuff, you're going to have a real problem with it. Those of us who can listen to the cd without preconceived conceptions of what Zappa...
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Jan 29 '00
Pros: Some fascinating compositions of
Cons: A couple of the songs are too weird.
Summary: All of Frank Zappa's work is an acquired taste. If you can dig the complex, often archaic, music that inhabits this album, it is indeed quite a mesmerizing experience. Released in 1987, "Jazz From Hell" comprises one song played by human...
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