Frank Zappa - Zappa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Clear Vinyl)

3-CD set.

The soundtrack features songs from Zappa’s record labels Straight and Bizarre Records such as “No Longer Umpire” from Alice Cooper’s debut album, Pretties For You, originally released on Straight in 1969; “The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes” by GTO’s, from the all-girl group’s one and only album, Permanent Damage, produced by Zappa. It also includes two classical compositions by Zappa’s lifetime inspirations Edgard Varèse and Igor Stravinsky as well as several interview clips. The soundtrack is rounded out with 26 original score cues newly composed by John Frizzell for the documentary.

With unfettered access to the Zappa Trust and all archival footage, “Zappa” explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Winter’s assembly features appearances by Zappa’s widow Gail Zappa and several of his musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, Ruth Underwood, Ray White and others. Announced on Kickstarter in 2016, the film became the highest-funded documentary in the crowdfunding site’s history.

Taken together “Zappa” and the companion soundtrack offer a riveting, revealing and emotional portrait of Frank Zappa, a trailblazer, iconoclast, virtuosic musician and fearless artist who forever changed music and culture with his unconventional and uncompromising vision. From his early psychedelic rock beginnings to his avant-garde experimentation, jazz-rock explorations, symphonic suites and satirical send-ups to his conceptual, compositional and technological innovations, Zappa shattered the norms every step of the way and his influence and ethos continues to reverberate as strongly today as ever.

FEATURING:

• ZAPPA ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE DIGITALLY TODAY VIA ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe AS ACCLAIMED “ZAPPA” DOCUMENTARY IS NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE IN The U.S. ON DEMAND
• 68-TRACK ALBUM FEATURES 12 UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM THE VAULT INCLUDING PERFORMANCES FROM THE WHISKY A GO-GO IN ’68, THE FILLMORE WEST IN ’70 AND “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” IN ’78
• INCLUDES MORE THAN TWO DOZEN TRACKS FROM ACROSS ZAPPA’S PROLIFIC FOUR-DECADE CAREER, RARITIES, INTERVIEW CLIPS PLUS 26 ORIGINAL SCORE CUES BY COMPOSER JOHN FRIZZELL

ZAPPA - O.S.T.