Civilization, Phaze III
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| Civilization, Phaze III | ||
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| Missing image Zappa_Civilization_Phaze_III.jpg Album cover | ||
| CD by Frank Zappa | ||
| Released | December 1994 | |
| Recorded | 1967, 1991 & 1992 Liner notes 1993 | |
| Genre | Rock and Roll | |
| Length | Disc 1: 56 min Disc 2: 57.4 min | |
| Record label | Barking Pumpkin | |
| Producer | Frank Zappa | |
| Frank Zappa Chronology | ||
| Yellow Shark (1993) | Civilization, Phaze III (1994) | Strictly Commercial (1995) |
Civilization, Phaze III is a double CD by Frank Zappa that was posthumously released in December 1994 by The Zappa Family Trust on Barking Pumpkin Records.
Much of the material was composed in the style of musique concrète, similar to Zappa's 1967 album Lumpy Gravy. Categorized by Zappa as an "opera-pantomime", the project began as a vocal recording experiment in 1967, which Zappa describes in the liner notes:
- "...I decided to stuff a pair of U-87s in the piano, cover it with a heavy drape, put a sand bag on the sustain pedal, and invite anybody in the vicinity to stick their head inside and ramble incoherently about the various topics I would suggest to them..."
This is the last album completed by Zappa before his death in 1993.
Track listing
All songs by Frank Zappa.
Disc 1
- "This Is Phaze lll" - 0:47
- "Put A Motor In Yourself" - 5:13
- "Oh-Umm" - 0:50
- "They Made Me Eat It" - 1:48
- "Reagan At Bitburg" - 5:39
- "A Very Nice Body" - 1:00
- "Navanax" - 1:40
- "How The Pigs' Music Works" - 1:49
- "Xmas Values" - 5:31
- "Dark Water!" - 0:23
- "Amnerika" - 3:03
- "Have You Heard Their Band?" - 0:38
- "Religious Superstition" - 0:43
- "Saliva Can Only Take So Much" - 0:27
- "Buffalo Voice" - 5:12
- "Someplace Else Right Now" - 0:32
- "Get A Life" - 2:20
- "A Kayak (On Snow)" - 0:28
- "N-Lite" - 18:00
Disc 2
- "I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back" - 0:14
- "Secular Humanism" - 2:41
- "Attack! Attack! Attack!" - 1:24
- "I Was In A Drum" - 3:38
- "A Different Octave" - 0:57
- "This Ain't CNN" - 3:20
- "The Pigs' Music" - 1:17
- "A Pig With Wings" - 2:52
- "This Is All Wrong" - 1:42
- "Hot & Putrid" - 0:29
- "Flowing Inside-Out" - 0:46
- "I Had A Dream About That" - 0:27
- "Gross Man" - 2:54
- "A Tunnel Into Muck" - 0:21
- "Why Not?" - 2:18
- "Put A Little Motor In 'Em" - 0:50
- "You're Just Insultin' Me, Aren't You!" - 2:13
- "Cold Light Generation" - 0:44
- "Dio Fa" - 8:18
- "That Would Be The End Of That" - 0:35
- "Beat The Reaper" - 15:23
- "Waffenspiel" - 4:05
Personnel
- Frank Zappa - Producer, compiler, editor, composer, performer, conductor & liner notes
- Dick Kunc - Engineer (1967)
- David Dondorf - Engineer (1991)
- Todd Yvega - Engineer (1991)
- Spencer Chrislu - Engineer (1991)
- Uri Balashov - Cover design
- Command A Studios - Art direction
- Ensemble Modern - Orchestra
1967 Voices
- Spider Barbour
- All-Night John
- Frank Zappa
- Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood
- Roy Estrada
- Louis "The Turkey" Cuneo
- Monica
- Gilly Townley
- Unknown Girl #1
- Unknown Girl #2
1991 Voices
- Moon Unit Zappa
- Michael Rapaport
- Ali N. Askin
- Catherine Milliken
- Walt Fowler
- Todd Yvega
- Michael Svoboda
- Michael Gross
- William Formann
- Uwe Dierksen
- Stefan Dohr
- Daryl Smith
- Franck Ollu
- Hermann Kretzschmar
- Dweezil Zappa