Frank Zappa – 200 Motels – 50th Anniversary (Deluxe) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 07:16:01 minutes | 8,36 GB | Genre: Rock, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
200 Motels is a 1971 surreal musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr.
A soundtrack album was released in the same year, with a slightly different selection of music.
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Frank Zappa – You Are What You Is (1981/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:00 minutes | 3,10 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
You Are What You Is is a double album by American musician Frank Zappa. It was originally released as a double album in 1981 and later by Rykodisc as a 20-song CD.
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Frank Zappa – Tinseltown Rebellion (1981/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:41 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Tinsel Town Rebellion is a double live album released by Frank Zappa in May 1981. The album was conceived by Zappa after he scrapped the planned albums Warts and All and Crush All Boxes, and contains tracks that were intended for those albums.
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Frank Zappa – Sleep Dirt (1979/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:10 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Sleep Dirt is an album by Frank Zappa released in January 1979, on his own DiscReet Records label. It reached #175 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States. Zappa’s original title for the album was Hot Rats III.
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Frank Zappa – Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar (1981/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:47:22 minutes | 5,31 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar, a project consisting of Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar, is a series of albums by Frank Zappa. Released as separate albums in May 1981 on Barking Pumpkin Records, it was subsequently reissued as a triple album box set in 1982.
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Frank Zappa – The Mothers 1971 (Super Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:51:31 minutes | 12,26 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mothers of Invention’s 1971 lineup, the complete Fillmore tapes are showcased here with every note played over 4 shows, including the John Lennon & Yoko Ono encore. Also included, is the full concert from the Rainbow Theatre in London, where FZ was infamously pushed off the stage, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer. This Super Deluxe 8 CD box set features a bonus hybrid 1971 concert from Harrisburg and Scranton, PA, with extensive liner notes and packaging.
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Frank Zappa – The Mothers 1971 (Super Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:51:31 minutes | 12,26 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mothers of Invention’s 1971 lineup, the complete Fillmore tapes are showcased here with every note played over 4 shows, including the John Lennon & Yoko Ono encore. Also included, is the full concert from the Rainbow Theatre in London, where FZ was infamously pushed off the stage, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer. This Super Deluxe 8 CD box set features a bonus hybrid 1971 concert from Harrisburg and Scranton, PA, with extensive liner notes and packaging.
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Frank Zappa – The Mothers 1971 (Super Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:51:31 minutes | 12,26 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mothers of Invention’s 1971 lineup, the complete Fillmore tapes are showcased here with every note played over 4 shows, including the John Lennon & Yoko Ono encore. Also included, is the full concert from the Rainbow Theatre in London, where FZ was infamously pushed off the stage, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer. This Super Deluxe 8 CD box set features a bonus hybrid 1971 concert from Harrisburg and Scranton, PA, with extensive liner notes and packaging.
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Frank Zappa – Waka/Wazoo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:20:09 minutes | 5,62 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
This year “Waka/Jawaka” & “The Grand Wazoo” celebrate their 50th anniversary. To celebrate half a century of this groundbreaking phase of Zappa’s career, both albums will be re-released as a box set and single LPs on December 16th. Under the title “Waka/Wazoo” a 4CD + Blu-Ray audio set will be released in a new stereo mix, which offers a complete historical overview of “Waka/Jawaka” and “The Grand Wazoo”. Included are alternative takes of almost every composition recorded during the album sessions, as well as outtakes and curiosities from the archive. The last show of the tour, which was recorded on December 15, 1972 at the famous Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, is also part of the box set. In addition, “Waka/Jawaka” and “The Grand Wazoo” will each be released as 1LP, pressed on 180g.
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Frank Zappa – Waka / Jawaka (Remastered) (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:09 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
When Frank Zappa found himself stuck in a wheelchair for most of the year 1972 (after a “fan” pushed him off the stage in December of the previous year), he relieved his band (including singers Flo & Eddie) of its duties and turned to studio work. One of the first things he tried was to write jazz fusion music scored for wider instrumentation than an average rock band. Waka/Jawaka was conceived in parallel to The Grand Wazoo, but with fewer players. The album, released in July 1972, is comprised of two extended instrumental pieces and two shorter songs. “Big Swifty,” a theme-and-solos showcase, would become a live favorite, but the highlight came in the form of the orgiastic title track, recorded with ex-Mothers of Invention keyboardist Don Preston, trumpeter Sal Marquez, trombonists Bill Byers and Ken Shroyer, saxophonist Mike Altschul, bassist Erroneous, and drummer Aynsley Dunbar. The songs, never performed live, feel like filler material. Waka/Jawaka was Zappa’s second solo album and is occasionally referred to as “Hot Rats II” (the handles of the faucets on the cover artwork show the words “hot” and “rats” instead of “hot” and “cold”). His writing and recording technique had matured a lot in very little time. The dirty blues jamming of the 1969 LP was replaced by clean, crisp jazz improvisations — no need to say this was also an abrupt change in style from the Mothers’ 1969-1971 incarnation. But this album was only transitional: Zappa’s big-band stylings would really flourish in The Grand Wazoo a few months later. – François Couture
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Frank Zappa – Waka / Jawaka (Remastered) (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:09 minutes | 837 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
When Frank Zappa found himself stuck in a wheelchair for most of the year 1972 (after a “fan” pushed him off the stage in December of the previous year), he relieved his band (including singers Flo & Eddie) of its duties and turned to studio work. One of the first things he tried was to write jazz fusion music scored for wider instrumentation than an average rock band. Waka/Jawaka was conceived in parallel to The Grand Wazoo, but with fewer players. The album, released in July 1972, is comprised of two extended instrumental pieces and two shorter songs. “Big Swifty,” a theme-and-solos showcase, would become a live favorite, but the highlight came in the form of the orgiastic title track, recorded with ex-Mothers of Invention keyboardist Don Preston, trumpeter Sal Marquez, trombonists Bill Byers and Ken Shroyer, saxophonist Mike Altschul, bassist Erroneous, and drummer Aynsley Dunbar. The songs, never performed live, feel like filler material. Waka/Jawaka was Zappa’s second solo album and is occasionally referred to as “Hot Rats II” (the handles of the faucets on the cover artwork show the words “hot” and “rats” instead of “hot” and “cold”). His writing and recording technique had matured a lot in very little time. The dirty blues jamming of the 1969 LP was replaced by clean, crisp jazz improvisations — no need to say this was also an abrupt change in style from the Mothers’ 1969-1971 incarnation. But this album was only transitional: Zappa’s big-band stylings would really flourish in The Grand Wazoo a few months later. – François Couture
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Frank Zappa – The Grand Wazoo (Remastered) (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:01 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Like its immediate predecessor, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo was a largely instrumental jazz rock album recorded during Frank Zappa’s convalescence from injuries sustained after being pushed off a concert stage. While Zappa contributes some guitar solos and occasional vocals, the focus is more on his skills as a composer and arranger. Most of the five selections supposedly form a musical representation of a story told in the liner notes about two warring musical factions, but the bottom line is that, overall, the compositions here are more memorably melodic and consistently engaging than Waka/Jawaka. The instrumentation is somewhat unique in the Zappa catalog as well, with the band more of a chamber jazz orchestra than a compact rock unit; over 20 musicians and vocalists contribute to the record. While Hot Rats is still the peak of Zappa’s jazz-rock fusion efforts, The Grand Wazoo comes close, and it’s essential for anyone interested in Zappa’s instrumental works. – Steve Huey
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Frank Zappa – The Grand Wazoo (Remastered) (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:01 minutes | 842 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Like its immediate predecessor, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo was a largely instrumental jazz rock album recorded during Frank Zappa’s convalescence from injuries sustained after being pushed off a concert stage. While Zappa contributes some guitar solos and occasional vocals, the focus is more on his skills as a composer and arranger. Most of the five selections supposedly form a musical representation of a story told in the liner notes about two warring musical factions, but the bottom line is that, overall, the compositions here are more memorably melodic and consistently engaging than Waka/Jawaka. The instrumentation is somewhat unique in the Zappa catalog as well, with the band more of a chamber jazz orchestra than a compact rock unit; over 20 musicians and vocalists contribute to the record. While Hot Rats is still the peak of Zappa’s jazz-rock fusion efforts, The Grand Wazoo comes close, and it’s essential for anyone interested in Zappa’s instrumental works. – Steve Huey
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Frank Zappa – ZAPPA ’75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:39 minutes | 3,20 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zappa Records
Frank Zappa’s fall 1975 touring schedule brought him to two cities in Yugoslavia, marking the first and only time he played shows in that country.?This 2-CD set combines performances from both shows, recorded live in Zagreb on 11/21/75 and Ljubljana on 11/22/75. Re-mixed from the original 1/2″ 8-track tape masters by Craig Parker Adams and mastered by John Polito, this historical release is the only multi-tracked document of Zappa’s rare band line-up, The Mothers, in the Vault.
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Frank Zappa – Halloween 81 (Highlights From The Palladium / Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:48 minutes | 1,71 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog
Another highlight for all Frank Zappa fans: the legendary Halloween shows from 1981 will be available in a box in 2020.
“Halloween 81, Live At The Palladium” is the name of the collection of live recordings, which includes a total of three concerts on six CDs. The recordings were made on 31 October 1981 at two concerts and on 1 November 1981 at a concert.
There are a total of 78 previously unreleased live songs waiting. All tracks were remixed from the original multitrack tapes for the release. It includes classics such as “Montana”, “Joe’s Garage”, “Watermelon In Easter Hay”, “Stevie’s Spanking”, “Easy Meat”, “Suicide Chump” and many more.
The entire track listing of “Halloween 81, Live At The Palladium” can be found below.
As a special extra of the box, a “Count Frankula” mask is waiting together with a red and black cape. There is also a 52-page booklet with photos and new liner notes by touring band member Robert Martin, Vaultmeister Joe Travers and the present fan Gary Titone.
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