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The History of Rock Music. Captain Beefheart: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings

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Don Van Vliet, known in musical circles as Captain Beefheart, is one of the most original and important musicians of the twentieth century. Van Vliet has forged a musical language that draws upon various recklessly diverse sources, such as the folklore of fairy tales, the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, the free association of surrealism, the symphonies of Charles Ives, children nursery rhymes, Van Gogh, free-jazz, and commercial music. But he used the Delta blues, in its most primitive and roughest expression, as the foundation and scaffolding of his artistic construction. At the same time, Van Vliet performed a prodigious operation of physical and psychological abuse on those sources, and in particular on the blues, obtaining the musical equivalent of a frightful visual deformation, a sort of demented exaggeration of the artistic dogmas of surrealism, Dadaism and cubism. In order to realize that crazy deformation, that spatial-temporal warping, that apocalyptic and blasphemous

The History of Rock Music. Captain Beefheart: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings Captain Beefheart ( Copyright &copy 1999-2017 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use ) Safe As Milk , 9/10 Strictly Personal , 7/10 Mirror Man , 8/10 Trout Mask Replica , 9.5/10 Lick My Decals Off , 7.5/10 Spotlight Kid , 6/10 Clear Spot , 5/10 Unconditionally Guaranteed , 4/10 Moonbeams And Bluejeans , 4/10 Shiny Beast , 7/10 Doc At Radar Station , 7/10 Ice Cream For Crow , 7/10 Links : A History of Rock and Dance Music Best albums of all time Vintage pictures Links to other sites Colton Basinger's musi

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