- Benoit Delaune: Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band(s)
(2011, book, France, le mot et le reste)
A brilliant con artist, a tyrannical leader, a monstrous singer... There are many rumours and legends surrounding the artist known as Captain Beefheart. A school friend of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart surrounded himself with the many often anonymous but brilliant musicians of his “Magic Band”, creating a complex music of polyrhythms and polytonalities, based on deconstructed blues, from 1967 to 1982, in just fifteen years and a handful of albums. Many musicians continue to claim the name of this essential artist, who died in December 2010. This book describes the constant creative paradoxes of Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band(s), between quasi-sectarian excesses, visionary integrity, commercial failures and music of total freedom.
From 2011.
150 pages. Soft-cover. In French.
I've only read a few chapters and it's quite interesting.
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