Zapped Fugues Michael Kieran Harvey's tribute to Frank Zappa - impresses GORDON RUMSON 'The virtuosity is astounding.'

The music of Frank Zappa is probably an acquired taste. But it has been acquired by many people, including in the classical field Pierre Boulez and Michael Kieran Harvey. The former has recorded Zappa works, while the latter has taken Zappa as a springboard to his own compositions -- and in a way that does not sound at all Zappa-esque, if by that you mean the pop-stylings of Zappa's varied, but sadly truncated career.

Frank Zappa began as a pop-rock artist in the psychedelic 1960s and the mind expanding/altering/destroying effects of that era never left him. He built his roads wide (to quote Thoreau)...

MICHAEL KIERAN HARVEY

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