Artist

RICCARDO ZAPPA

A gifted guitarist that has produced a series of solo albums since his first one in 1977 and still playing in the 2000's, Riccardo Zappa has always been considered one of the best italian acoustic guitars players, and this is well demonstrated by his LP's.

His beginnings were with an album released on PDU in 1974 along with fellow guitarist Klaus Aulehla. The album, not particularly successful, included mostly acoustic ballads and the duo split afterwards.

First album, Celestion, was very popular, containing all instrumental tracks showing the excellent quality of Zappa's playing, sometimes filtered through electronic effects. 
Later albums repeated the formula, going closer to a new age musical style.

Since around 1983 Zappa has started a collaboration with former Alphataurus keyboardist Pietro Pellegrini, and has recorded in his own studio much of his production.

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LP (until 1980)
Celestion	Divergo (DVAE 016)	1977	single cover
	Divergo (5335 516)	1977	single cover, slightly later issue had a different catalogue number due to Phonogram distribution.
Chatka	Divergo (5335 521)	1978
Trasparenze	DDD ()	1980
CD
Celestion	Mellow (MMP 290)	1997	reissue of 1977 album
	BTF/Vinyl Magic (VM 111)	2006	as above with mini-LP gatefold cover
Chatka	Mellow (MMP 294)	1997	reissue of 1978 album
PROMO AND JUKEBOX SINGLES (with blank cover)
Celestion Frammenti	Divergo (001)	1977	promo - both tracks from Celestion
Chatka Eleila	Divergo (002)	1978	promo - both tracks from Chatka

None of the Riccardo Zappa solo albums is particularly rare, while his first album with Klaus Aulehla is more difficult to locate.
It has a gatefold cover with a 12-page lyric and picture booklet glued in.

No foreign issues or counterfeits exist.

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Live a Passaggio di Bettona (PG) 27/10/2005

Riccardo Zappa has his own website at http://www.riccardozappa.it/

Thanks to Fabio Marchignoli for one of the record pictures