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Rondo Hatton Report: Vol. 5

Right in time for Christmas, a new Rondo Hatton Report has been published – Volume 5 can be downloaded here and contains ten fresh essays. For coming issues, you are encouraged to submit your own!

Rondo Hatton Report Vol IV

A new Rondo Hatton Report has been published:

Amongst other contributions, this issue features a second submission from Kohjitsu Ohyama, author of two authoritative Japanese books on FZ, proposing a solution to the vexed question of the ‘ultimate compilation’ problem — and from the wilds of Indiana, Prof. Hollinden weighs in with the third installment of his Pigs & Ponies series.

More info and a free download right over here.

The Rondo Hatton Report #3

A new issue of The Rondo Hatton Report is out, featuring the following contributions:

• The Origins Of IINK / Román García Albertos
• Cruisin’ For A Ruben / Sue Barashy
• Zappa’s Music Is A Time Machine / Guillaume Dauzou & Sabrina Bergamin
• Nostalgia For The Old Folks? / Tom Demonay
• I’m A Bandleader / Richard Hemmings
• Ten (Zen) Commendments / Simon Prentis
• Pourquoi Vouloir Mettre Un Caniche Dans Un Bocal? / John Raby
• A View From India / Mahesh Ramchandani
• There Is Such A Thing As Progress / Hugo Vanneck
• One More Time For The World / English Versions

The free download is available here for your reading pleasure.

The Rondo Hatton Report #1

As announced back in October, the inaugural edition of The Rondo Hatton Report is now available for download. Topics explored are:

• King Kong: A Conversational Analysis – Paul Carr & Michel Delville
• The Bard Of Baltimore – Kanguy Chow
• Zappa’s Music Is a Sphere – Guillaume Dauzou & Sabrina Bergamin
• Author/Recipient Relationships in FZ Movies – Manuel de la Fuente
• My Dogs Are Barking – Andrew Greenaway
• Trouble With Pigs And Ponies – Andy Hollinden
• FZ And The English Language – John Loska
• When Zappa Played Like Coltrane – Philippe Mérigot
• La Dérive Uncle Meat – Didier Mervelet
• Waxing Lyrical; Why I Love Frank – Sarah Moore
• Isn’t It Romantic, Punky? – Simon Prentis
• Frank Zappa Versus the People – Pacôme Thiellement
• Are You Hung Up? – Hugo Vanneck
• On “Oh No” From Weasels Ripped My Flesh – Ben Watson

Direct link to the PDF.

Happy reading, and happy holidays!