Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III (1994)

• Title: Civilization Phase III
  
• Year Of Release: 1994
  
• Label: Frank Zappa Catalog
  
• Genre: Electronic, Classical, Avantgarde
  
• Quality: FLAC (*tracks, digital booklet)
  
• Total Time: 01:53:49
  
• Total Size: 634 mb (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Civilization Phaze III is the last album of new music Frank Zappa completed before his death in December 1993. It belongs to his corpus of "serious music." The composer has revisited the recordings he made in 1967 of various people talking with their heads inside a grand piano (with the sustain pedal depressed, it made quite a resonating room). These conversations were used in part in the 1968 LP Lumpy Gravy, but here Zappa (with the help of less limiting technology) restructured the comments of the "people living inside the piano" into a quasi-coherent plot. Basically, they are either outcasts or in self-exile from the outer world. They hide from a menacing reality. These spoken bits serve to tie together computer and orchestra music. Compared to his cruder attempts from the mid-'80s (like Jazz from Hell), these pieces sound lush, rich, natural. They still make for a challenging listen but are much more rewarding in the end. "Amnerika," the 18-minute "N-Lite," and the closer "Waffenspiel" stand among the man's best scored music. Disc one is 100 percent Synclavier (a keyboard computer) and 1967 dialogues. Disc two introduces a few orchestral pieces performed by Ensemble Modern and new piano voices recorded in 1991. The whole project was conceptualized as an "opera-pantomime." Zappa's indications put more flesh around the music and provide conceptual continuity clues for the die-hard fans (the booklet also contains transcriptions of all the dialogues). The original artwork and packaging are stunning and luxurious, a match for the music, some of the most compelling Zappa wrote outside of the rock realm.

Tracks:

Act One
01. Frank Zappa - This Is Phaze III (0:48)
02. Frank Zappa - Put A Motor In Yourself (5:14)
03. Frank Zappa - Oh-Umm (0:50)
04. Frank Zappa - They Made Me Eat It (1:48)
05. Frank Zappa - Reagan At Bitburg (5:39)
06. Frank Zappa - A Very Nice Body (1:00)
07. Frank Zappa - Navanax (1:40)
08. Frank Zappa - How The Pigs' Music Works (1:49)
09. Frank Zappa - Xmas Values (5:31)
10. Frank Zappa - Dark Water! (0:23)
11. Frank Zappa - Amnerika (3:04)
12. Frank Zappa - Have You Heard Their Band? (0:38)
13. Frank Zappa - Religious Superstition (0:43)
14. Frank Zappa - Saliva Can Only Take So Much (0:28)
15. Frank Zappa - Buffalo Voice (5:12)
16. Frank Zappa - Someplace Else Right Now (0:33)
17. Frank Zappa - Get A Life (2:21)
18. Frank Zappa - A Kayak (On Snow) (0:29)
19. Frank Zappa - N-Lite: Negative Light/Venice Submerged/New World Order/The Lifestyle You Deserve/Creationism/He Is Risen (18:01)


Act Two
20. Frank Zappa - I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back (0:14)
21. Frank Zappa - Secular Humanism (2:41)
22. Frank Zappa - Attack! Attack! Attack! (1:25)
23. Frank Zappa - I Was In A Drum (3:38)
24. Frank Zappa - A Different Octave (0:58)
25. Frank Zappa - This Ain't CNN (3:21)
26. Frank Zappa - The Pigs Music (1:18)
27. Frank Zappa - A Pig With Wings (2:52)
28. Frank Zappa - This Is All Wrong (1:43)
29. Frank Zappa - Hot & Putrid (0:29)
30. Frank Zappa - Flowing Inside-Out (0:46)
31. Frank Zappa - I Had A Dream About That (0:28)
32. Frank Zappa - Gross Man (2:54)
33. Frank Zappa - A Tunnel Into Muck (0:21)
34. Frank Zappa - Why Not? (2:19)
35. Frank Zappa - Put A Little Motor In 'Em (0:51)
36. Frank Zappa - You're Just Insultin' Me, Aren't You! (2:13)
37. Frank Zappa - Cold Light Generation (0:44)
38. Frank Zappa - Dio Fa (8:19)
39. Frank Zappa - That Would Be The End Of That (0:36)
40. Frank Zappa - Beat The Reaper (15:23)
41. Frank Zappa - Waffenspiel (4:05)

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