The Yellow Shark Vinyl

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The yellow shark vinyl.

Although critically ill zappa was able to attend the opening conducting a few pieces and hear his music the way he envisioned it. The yellow shark an album of orchestral music was released only a few weeks before he succumbed to cancer the computer music sound collage album civilization phaze iii was released a few months later. It features live recordings from the ensemble modern s 1992 performances of zappa s compositions. They took a year to learn all of the intricacies of the music not just getting all of the rhythms right but the feel and emotion as well.

Amazon best sellers rank. In the album s notes zappa describes the yellow shark as one of the most fulfilling projects of his career and as the best representation. Released in november 1993 it was the last zappa album to appear in his lifetime almost exactly a month before he died of the cancer from which he had suffered for several years. Another typically great zappa performance setlist intro overture meat outrage valdez time beach revised 1992 girl magnesium dress tango food gathering post industrial american 1992 ruth sleeping amnerica none above pentagon afternoon time beach welcome united states pound brown whitney g spot tornado video quality very good quality running length minutes disc format ntsc.

Outrage at valdez 3 27. Reviewed in italy on december 11 2013. Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about zappa ensemble modern the yellow shark at discogs. Complete your zappa ensemble modern collection.

Then came the yellow shark project initiated by the ensemble modern. This 72 minute long album features 18 zappa compositions. Everything old though is reworked and orchestrated for ensemble modern who do a great job performing the music throughout the album. The yellow shark is an album of orchestral music by american musician frank zappa.

Assembled from a series of sold out performances in germany by the ensemble moderne the set includes re workings of old favorites like the dog breath variations and uncle meat live arrangements of some of his hairiest computer music like the girl in the magnesium dress and g spot. Dog breath variations 2 06. Released shortly after his death in 1993 the yellow shark represents one of the only accurate performances of frank zappa s serious orchestral music at least as far as the composer was concerned. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1993 src cd release of the yellow shark on discogs.

The yellow shark zappa ensemble modern cd barking pumpkin r2 71600 november 2 1993 previous album notes comments vinyl vs cd related links next album. The girl in the magnesium dress 4 33. Be bop tango 3 43.