Civilization Phaze III
Frank Zappa
Musikk på CD · Engelsk · 1994 · Avantgarde
| Utgitt | [S.l] : Zappa Records , 1994
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| Omfang | 2 CD : digital, stereo
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| Opplysninger | Innhold CD 1: This Is Phaze I I I ; Put A Motor In Yourself ; Oh - Umm ; They Made Me Eat It ; Reagan At Bitburg ; A Very Nice Body ; Navanax ; How The Pigs' Music Works ; Xmas Values ; Dark Water! ; Amnerika ; Have You Heard Their Band? ; Religious Superstition ; Saliva Can Only Take So Much ; Buffalo Voice ; Someplace Else Right Now ; Get A Life ; A Kayak ( On Snow ) ; N - Lite. - Innhold CD 2: I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back ; Secular Humanism ; Attack! Attack! Attack! ; I Was In A Drum ; A Diffrent Octave ; This Ain't C N N ; The Pigs' Music ; A Pig With Wings ; This Is All Wrong ; Hot & Stupid ; Flowing Inside - Out ; I Had A Dream About That ; Gross Man ; A Tunnel Into Muck ; Why Not? ; Put A Little Motor In 'em ; You're Just Insultin' Me, Aren't You! ; Cold Light Generation ; Dio Fa ; That Would Be The End Of That ; Beat The Reaper ; Waffenspiel. - From the booklet: In 1967, we spent about four months recording various projects […]. One day I decided to stuff a pair of U-87's in the piano, cover it with a heavy drape, put a sand bag on the sustain pedal and invite anybody in the vicinity to stick their head inside and ramble incoherently about the various topics I would suggest to them via the studio talk-back system. This set-up remained in place for several days. During that time, many hours of recordings were made, most of it useless. […] Some of this dialog - after extensive editing - found its way into the "Lumpy Gravy" album. The rest of it sat in my tape vault for decades, waiting for the glorious day when audio science would develop tools which might allow for its resurrection. […] In "Civilization Phaze III" we get a few more clues about the lives of the piano-dwellers and note that the external evils have only gotten worse since we first met them. The bulk of the musical material comes from Synclavier sequences (all music in act one). In the second act, the music is a combination of Synclavier (70%) and live performance (30%), along with a new generation of piano people. The new residents […] were recorded in a Bösendorfer Imperial at UMRK during the summer of 1991.[…]". - This is Zappa's masterpiece of electronic music, conceived, composed and performed on his Synclavier, a computer system for music composition and recording. Civilization Phaze III is an astounding work, taking Zappa nearly ten years to finish. Released posthumously, this 2 CD set is a testimony to Zappa the composer, containing the pure fruits of his imagination and the hard work he continued until his death in 1993. Continuing the story of the piano people from Lumpy Gravy (and utilizing much of the same tape source material for it's interludes) the album fulfills on the promise of his Grammy-winning Jazz From Hell, the first album released of his Synclavier music. Rather than sounding artificial, the sampled instruments sound other-worldly, as if Zappa's latest band had traveled from a dimension where our own laws of space and time didn't apply. Strings morph into winds in the middle of a phrase, and different instruments trade alternating notes in the most complicated and fast of passages. Anyone interested in new experimental and electronic music will also want to check out Civilization Phaze III, the genre's best-kept secret. --Andrew Boscardin
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| ISBN | 179 kr
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| Hylleplass | ZAP
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