On November 2, 1993, “Barking Pumpkin Records” label released “The Yellow Shark”, the sixty second Frank Zappa’ album. “The Yellow Shark” features live recordings from the “Ensemble Modern’s” 1992 performances of Zappa’s orchestral music, and was produced by  Frank Zappa.  This was Zappa’s  last album released before his death one month later.

Personnel:

• Frank Zappa – conductor, performer
• Detlef Tewes – mandolin
• Jürgen Ruck – banjo, guitar
• Andreas Böttger – percussion
• Dietmar Wiesner – flute
• Catherine Milliken – oboe, English horn, bass oboe, didjeridu
• Roland Diry – clarinet
• Wolfgang Stryi – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet
• Veit Scholz – bassoon, contrabassoon
• Franck Ollu, Stefan Dohr – French horn
• William Formann, Michael Gross – cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, trumpet
• Uwe Dierksen – trombone, soprano trombone
• Michael Svoboda – trombone, euphonium, didjeridu, alphorn
• Daryl Smith – tuba
• Hermann Kretzschmar – celeste, harpsichord, voices, piano
• Ueli Wiget – celeste, harpsichord, harp, piano
• Rumi Ogawa-Helferich – cymbalom, percussion
• Ensemble Modern
• Peter Rundel – violin, conductor
• Ellen Wegner – harp
• Mathias Tacke, Claudia Sack – violin
• Hilary Sturt – violin, voices
• Friedemann Dähn – violoncello
• Thomas Fichter- contrabass, Fichter electric upright bass

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

1. Intro
2. Dog Breath Variations
3. Uncle Meat
4. Outrage at Valdez
5. Times Beach It
6. III Revised
7. The Girl in the magnesium Dress
8. Be Bop Tango
9. Ruth is Sleeping
10. None of the Above
11. Pentagon Afternoon
12. Questi Cazzi Di Piccione
13. Times Beach III
14. Food Gathering in Post Industrial America 1992
15. Welcome to the United States
16. Pound for a Brown
17. Exercise #4
18. Get Whitey
19. G-Spot Tornado