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Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti

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

Frank Zappa: EIHN

On December 21, 1999, “UMRK” label released “EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely)”, an album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released through the Zappa Family Trust. The album features recordings made with the Ensemble Modern in preparation for “The Yellow Shark” in1993, and were produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, arrangements, mixing
  • L. Shankar – vocal, violin
  • The Ensemble Modern – orchestra – Andreas Böttger, Catherine Milliken, Daryl Smith, Detlef Tewes, Dietmar Wiesner, Franck Ollu, Friedemann Dähn, Hermann Kretzschmar, Hilary Sturt, Jürgen Ruck, Mathias Tacke, Michael Gross, Michael Svoboda, Peter Rundel, Rainer Römer, Roland Diry, Rumi Ogawa-Helferich, Stefan Dohr, Thomas Fichter, Ueli Wiget, Uwe Dierksen, Veit Scholz, William Formann, Wolfgang Stryi
  • Marqueson Coy – recording
  • Todd Yvega – recording, liner notes
  • David Dondorf – recording
  • Spencer Chrislu – mixing, technician
  • Gail Zappa – art direction, liner notes
  • Christopher Mark Brennan – cover art
  • Tracy Veal Design – design
  • Antony Neely – design
  • Van Carlson – photography
  • Ali N. Askin – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. Library Card
  2. This Is a Test
  3. Jolly Good Fellow
  4. Roland’s Big Event/Strat Vindaloo
  5. Master Ringo
  6. T’Mershi Duween
  7. Nap Time
  8. 9/8 Objects
  9. Naked City
  10. Whitey (Prototype)
  11. Amerika Goes Home
  12. None of the Above (Revisited & Previsited)
  13. Wonderful Tattoo