Frank Zappa 2023

Frank Zappa’s incredibly rare recordings, believed to have been planned for a potential sequel to his iconic hot rats album, have been unearthed from the vault and compiled as new collection, Funky Nothingness features 25 unreleased and rare tracks and more than three and a half hours of never-before-heard compositions, covers, and jams from 1970 with core group of Ainsley Dunbar, Don “Sugarcane” Harris, Ian Underwood, and Max Bennett Three-Disc expanded deluxe edition contains outtakes, alternate edits, and unedited masters from little known recording sessions.

Frank Zappa: Over-nite Sensation is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Universal Music Group with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. The disc boots to the main menu seen in screenshot 10, but as soon as either a track or the Play button is clicked, there's an amusing "tour" through the memorable original album cover, including various elements that have animated properties.The Blu-ray disc advertises Dolby Atmos 48/24, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 48/24, Quadrophonic 96/24 and PCM Stereo (both 96/24 and 192/24) options, but rather interestingly while all my equipment is showing the "proper" kilohertz for each track, the Quadrophonic track shows as Dolby TrueHD 5.1 on both my player and BDInfo. While my player properly showed a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 core for the Atmos track, for some weird reason BDInfo showed a 5.1 core for that track. I'll leave it to those interested in these discrepancies to hash it out amongst themselves and will simply report what I hear, and in that regard both the Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 48/24 options are amazingly immersive and impressively powerful in the midrange and low end.

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

Mudd Club / Munich '80« vereint zwei historische Auftritte der Band aus dem Frühjahr / Sommer 1980.

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce. Nominally, he was a popular musician, but his recordings rarely earned significant airplay or sales, yet he was able to gain control of his recorded work and issue it successfully through his own labels while also touring internationally, in part because of the respect he earned from a dedicated cult of fans and many serious musicians, and also because he was an articulate spokesman who promoted himself into a media star through extensive interviews he considered to be a part of his creative effort just like his music.

Zappa in New York ist ein Live-Album von Frank Zappa. Es wurde bei einer Reihe von Konzerten im Palladium in New York City im Dezember 1976 aufgenommen.

Zappa in New York ist ein Live-Album von Frank Zappa. Es wurde bei einer Reihe von Konzerten im Palladium in New York City im Dezember 1976 aufgenommen.

"Mudd Club / Munich '80" brings together two historic performances by the band from the spring / summer of 1980, the first of which took place at FZ's favorite NYC nightclub - the famous Mudd Club. Presented from a high resolution transfer of the original master tape.

Gatefold sleeve. Live Radio Broadcast from The Palladium, New York City, 31st October 1977