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Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti

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On March 3, 1979, “Zappa Records” label released “Sheik Yerbouti”, the 26th Frank Zappa album. It was recorded 1977 – 1978, at “The Palladium” in New York Cuty, “Hammersmith Odeon” in London, and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – lead and backing vocals, guitar, arrangeements, remixing
  • Davey Moire – lead and backing vocals, engineer
  • Adrian Belew – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, Bob Dylan impersonation
  • Tommy Mars – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
  • Peter Wolf – keyboards, butter, Flora margarine
  • Patrick O’Hearn – lead and backing vocals, bass
  • Terry Bozzio – lead and backing vocals, drims
  • Ed Mann – percussion, backing vocals
  • David Ocker – clarinet
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock – lead and backing vocals
  • Andre Lewis – backing vocals
  • Randy Thornton – lead and backing vocals
  • Peter Henderson – engineer
  • Jon Walls – engineer
  • Kerry McNabb – engineer
  • Joe Chiccarelli – remixing, overdub engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • John Williams – art direction
  • Amy Bernstein – artwork, layout design
  • Lynn Goldsmith – photography, cover photohraphy
  • Gail Zappa – photography
  • Barbara Isaak – assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

  1. I Have Been in You
  2. Flakes
  3. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
  4. I’m So Cute
  5. Jones Crusher
  6. What Ever Happened to All the Fun in the World
  7. Rat Tomago – Frank Zappa, Ahmet Zappa
  8. We’ve Got to Get into Something Real
  9. Bobby Brown
  10. Rubber Shirt – Terry Bozzio, Patrick O’Hearn, Frank Zappa
  11. The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
  12. Baby Snakes
  13. Tryin’ to Grow a Chin
  14. City of Tiny Lites
  15. Dancin’ Fool
  16. Jewish Princess
  17. Wild Love
  18. Yo’ Mama

Pierre Boulez: The Perfect Stranger

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On August 23, 1984, “Angel” label released “The Perfect Stranger”, an album featuring the music of Frank Zappa, conducted in part by Pierre Boulez. It was recorded January – April 1984, at “IRCAM” in Paris, and “UMRK” in Hollywood Hills, and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa– synclavier, liner notes
  • Pierre Boulez– conductor, direction
  • Péter Eötvös– musical director
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard– piano
  • The London Symphony Orchestra
  • Ensemble InterContemporain– orchestra
  • Guy Arnaud – bass clarinet
  • Paul Meyer– clarinet
  • Jérôme Naulais– trombone
  • Antoine Curé– trumpet
  • Lawrence Beauregard – flute
  • Jacques Ghestem – violin
  • Marie-Claire Jamet– harp
  • Daniel Ciampolini – percussion
  • David Ocker – programming
  • John Matousek – mastering
  • Don Hunstein– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. The Perfect Stranger
  2. Naval Aviation in Art?
  3. The Girl in the Magnesium Dress
  4. Outside Now Again
  5. Love Story
  6. Dupree’s Paradise
  7. Jonestown

Frank Zappa: Francesco Zappa

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On November 21, 1984, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “Francesco Zappa”, the 42nd Frank Zappa album. It was recorded February – April 1984, at “UMRK”, and was produced by Frank Zappa. The album features features chamber music by the Italian  composer  Francesco Zappa, who composed between 1763 and 1788.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – orchestrated, conductor
  • Performed by The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort
  • David Ocker – Synclavier document encryption
  • Bob Stone, Mark Pinske – engineer
  • Donald Roller Wilson – cover painting
  • Gabrielle Raumberger – collage
  • New Age Art – graphics

Track listing:

All tracks by Francesco Zappa

  1. Opus I: No. 1 First Movement: Andante
  2. Opus I: No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro con brio
  3. Opus I: No. 2 1st Movement: Andantino
  4. Opus I: No. 2 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso
  5. Opus I: No. 3 1st Movement: Andantino
  6. Opus I: No. 3 2nd Movement: Presto
  7. Opus I: No. 4 1st Movement: Andante
  8. Opus I: No. 4 1st Movement: Andante
  9. Opus I: No. 4 2nd Movement: Allegro
  10. Opus I: No. 5 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso
  11. Opus I: No. 6 1st Movement: Largo
  12. Opus I: No. 6 2nd Movement: Minuet
  13. Opus IV: No. 1 1st Movement: Andantino
  14. Opus IV: No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro assai
  15. Opus IV: No. 2 2nd Movement: Allegro assai
  16. Opus IV: No. 3 1st Movement: Andante
  17. Opus IV: No. 3 2nd Movement: Tempo di minuetto
  18. Opus IV: No. 4 1st Movement: Minuetto

Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is

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On September 23, 1981, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “You Are  What You Is”, the thirty-fourth Frank Zappa album. It was recorded July – September 1980, at “UMRK” and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocal, guitar, arrangements
  • Steve Vai– guitars
  • Denny Walley – vocals, slide guitar
  • Ray White – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Ike Willis– vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Tommy Mars – vocals, keyboards
  • Craig “Twister” Stewart – harmonica
  • Arthur Barrow– bass guitar
  • David Logeman – drums
  • Ed Mann– percussion
  • Mark Pinske – vocals
  • Jimmy Carl Black– vocals
  • Motorhead Sherwood – vocals, tenor saxophone
  • Bob Harris – vocals, Boy Soprano, trumpet
  • David Ocker – bass clarinet, clarinet
  • Ahmet Zappa– vocals
  • Moon Unit Zappa– vocals
  • Mark Pinske – chief engineer
  • Allen Sides – engineer
  • Dennis Sager – digital engineer
  • George Douglas – engineer assistant
  • Bob Stone – remixing, digital remastering
  • Jo Hansch – mastering
  • Amy Bernstein – artwork
  • John Vince – artwork, design
  • John Livzey – photography
  • Thomas Nordegg – Franks personnel assistant
  • Santi Rubio – studio secretary

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. Teen-Age Wind
  2. Harder Than Your Husband
  3. Doreen
  4. Goblin Girl
  5. Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear
  6. Society Pages
  7. I’m a Beautiful Guy
  8. Beauty Knows No Pain
  9. Charlie’s Enormous Mouth
  10. Any Downers?
  11. Conehead
  12. You Are What You Is
  13. Mudd Club
  14. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  15. Dumb All Over
  16. Heavenly Bank Account
  17. Suicide Chump
  18. Jumbo Go Away
  19. If Only She Woulda
  20. Drafted Again

Frank Zappa: London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I

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On June 9, 1983, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I” the thirty-eight  Frank Zappa album. It was recorded in January 1983, at “Twickenham Film Studios” in London,and was produced by Frank Zappa. The album features the London Symphony Orchestra’s renditions of four of Zappa’s compositions.

Personnel:

  • The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano
  • David Ocker –clarinet
  • Chad Wackerman– drums
  • Ed Mann– percussion
  • Mark Pinske – recording
  • John Vince – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. Sad Jane
  2. Pedro’s Dowry
  3. Envelopes
  4. Mo ‘n Herb’s Vacation
  • First Movement
  • Second Movement
  • Third Movement