Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Yellow Shark - Frank Zappa and the Ensemble Modern


Ahoy - new voice in the choir here. An apt way to put it, as I woke this morning with a fierce craving for some latter-day Zappa and found it with the often overlooked but excellent 1992 recording of Zappa's serious orchestral work, of many of his compositions which appear to have been composed on the Next Plane.

Reworkings of classic Zappa offerings like "Uncle Meat" and live arrangements of such outer-space nastiness like "G-Spot Tornado" - all with performance support from the Ensemble Moderne during several sold-out performances in Germany.

After a boozy night of cigarettes and dark, insidious dreams - a fine way to greet the morning during your coffee enema.

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