Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III '1994

Artist	Frank Zappa Related artists
Album name	Civilization Phase III
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Date	1994
Genre	Electronic
Play time	01:53:49
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	634 mb (+3%rec.)
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       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)