Audio CD review:
Frank Zappa - Trance-Fusion

Frank Zappa - Trance-Fusion

Band: Frank Zappa Title: Trance-Fusion Rating: Release Date: 07 November, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Chunga's Revenge 2: Bowling on Charen 3: Good Lobna 4: Cold Dark Matter 5: Butter or Cannons 6: Ask Dr. Stupid 7: Scratch & Sniff 8: Trance-Fusion 9: Gorgo 10: Diplodocus 11: Soul Polka 12: For Giuseppe Franco 13: After Dinner Smoker 14: Light Is All That Matters 15: Finding Higgs' Boson 16: Bavarian Sunset

Customer Reviews The third guitar album It's all live and taken from actual songs. This is an album of guitar solos. The songs segue, but they're not separated with bits of musique concrete or dialogue like the "Shut up 'n play yer guitar" album. This is like the "Guitar" album. It's over an hour long, and the solos are mostly different. It emphasizes on the 1988 tour. Many say that tour wasn't very good for his solos, because he hadn't played live for 3 years since the last tour, which ended in December 1984. This one started in February 1988. This is exactly where the solos were taken from. 1. Chunga's Revenge - 4/18/1988 featuring Dweezil. 2. Bowling on Charen - 10/28/1977 (early show), solo from "Wild Love". 3. Good Lobna - 12/4/1984, solo from "Let's move to Cleveland". 4. A cold dark matter - 3/18/1988, solo from "Inca roads". 5. Butter or cannons - 8/25/1984, solo from "Let's move to cleveland". 6. Ask Dr. Stupid - 3/21/1979, solo from "Easy meat". 7. Scratch & Sniff - 4/16/1988, solo from "City of tiny lights". 8. Trance-Fusion - 5/24/1988, solo from "Marque-son's chicken". 9. Gorgo - 5/1/1988, solo from "The torture never stops". 10. Diplodocus - 10/26/1984, solo from "King Kong". 11. Soul Polka - 3/19/1988, solo from "Oh No". 12. For Guiseppe Franco - 12/17/1984, solo from "Hot plate heaven at the green hotel. " 13. After Dinner smoker - 6/9/1988, solo from "The torture never stops". 14. Light is all that matters - 12/17/1984, solo from "Let's move to cleveland". 15. Finding Higgs' Boson - 5/8/1988, solo from "Hot plate heaven at the green hotel. " 16. Bavarian Sunset - 5/9/1988, featuring Dweezil, solo from a post "I'm the walrus" jam. This is the third guitar solo album Zappa planned to release. What you hear here is what he himself compiled, sequenced, segued, and produced. He had this record done while he was still alive and the track titles are his. It's just that it took over ten years for it to finally come out. So you should know that this isn't some post-humous release put together by someone who isn't Frank Zappa himself. The solos themselves are all good, some more memorable than others, but overall the playing is complex full of non-eastern scales, and not your usual pentatonic runs up and down the fret. Shows Zappa's virtuosity, which he denied. Recommended along with the other two guitar albums. Excellent! This is one of my favorite releases since Zappa's death - the solos are wide in variety and, as expected, always excellent. This is an absolutely excellent collection of guitar solos from the master himself. Some are in Zappa's mad-cap impossibly difficult style, others are good old-style jams, and others are quite emotionally moving. I am a long time Zappa fan - obsessive one might say, forcing Zappa on a great many people, as much and as often as I can - and I am LOVING this CD! Listening to it reminds me, though, of how empty the world is without Frank still around with his incisive and brilliant political and social anthropological insights and, of course, his music. But as Frank's fave composer Edgar Varese said, "The modern day composer refuses to die". Given the incredible amount of unreleased material that is still in the Frank Zappa can, it will be a long time before he truly dies. If you're a Zappa fan, especially a fan of his guitar work, I think you will love this album. I definitely do!. Guitar masterpiece Let me say at the start that this disc is not for that FZ listener who wants more of those insightful, funny, socially relevant lyrics that helped catapult FZ to the shelf of music that is too true to play on the air. Once again the Vaults at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen have pooted forth more guitar wizardry from FZ. This disc is a solid 60+ minutes of string bending joysomeness. From the airplay friendly opener "Chunga's Revenge" to an almost poignant closer "Bavarian Sunset" the entire disc is a air guitar fiend's wet dream. Buy it. Listen to it. Live it. . You can see a complete list of all Frank Zappa discography, or go back to the Frank Zappa tabs