Frank Zappa's 'The Yellow Shark'

Frank Zappa‘s ‘The Yellow Shark’ is an album of orchestral music composed by Zappa, performed by the Ensemble Modern and released on November 2, 1993 by Barking Pumpkin.

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1 . Dog Breath Variations + Uncle Meat

2 . The Yellow Shark Dance

3 . The Yellow Shark (Rehearsal Extract 1)

4 . Rehearsing Ensemble Modern Frankfurt

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Track Listing : 1.Intro (Frank Zappa) – 01:43 . 2.Dog Breath Variations (Frank Zappa) – 02:07 . 3.Uncle Meat (Frank Zappa) – 03:24 . 4.Outrage At Valdez (Frank Zappa) – 03:27 . 5.Times Beach Ii (Frank Zappa) – 07:31 . 6.Iii Revised (Frank Zappa) – 01:45 . 7.The Girl In The Magnesium Dress (Frank Zappa) – 04:33 . 8.Be-Bop Tango (Frank Zappa) – 03:43 . 9.Ruth Is Sleeping (Frank Zappa) – 05:56 . 10.None Of The Above (Frank Zappa) – 02:17 . 11.Pentagon Afternoon (Frank Zappa) – 02:28 . 12.Questi Cazzi Di Piccione[9] (Frank Zappa) – 03:03 . 13.Times Beach Iii (Frank Zappa) – 04:26 . 14.Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America, 1992 (Frank Zappa) – 02:52 . 15.Welcome To The United States (Frank Zappa) – 06:39 . 16.Pound For A Brown (Frank Zappa) – 02:12 . 17.Exercise, No. 4 (Frank Zappa) – 01:37 . 18.Get Whitey (Frank Zappa) – 07:00 . 19.G-Spot Tornado (Frank Zappa) – 05:17

Musicians : Frank Zappa – Conductor . Ensemble Modern – Orchestra . Peter Rundel – Conductor, Violin . Dietmar Wiesner – Flute . Catherine Milliken – Oboe, English Horn, Bass Oboe,[10] Didjeridu . Roland Diry – Clarinet . Wolfgang Stryi – Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Contrabass Clarinet . Veit Scholz – Bassoon, Contrabassoon . Franck Ollu – French Horn . Stefan Dohr – French Horn . William Formann – Cornet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet . Michael Gross – Cornet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet . Uwe Dierksen – Trombone, Soprano Trombone . Michael Svoboda – Trombone, Euphonium, Didjeridu, Alphorn . Daryl Smith – Tuba . Herman Kretzschmar – Celeste, Harpsichord, Voices, Piano . Ueli Wiget – Celeste, Harpsichord, Harp, Piano . Rumi Ogawa-Helferich – Cymbalom, Percussion . Andreas Böttger – Percussion . Detlef Tewes – Mandolin . Jürgen Ruck – Banjo, Guitar . Ellen Wegner – Harp . Mathias Tacke, Claudia Sack – Violin . Hilary Sturt – Violin, Voices . Friedemann Dähn – Violoncello . Thomas Fichter- Contrabass, Fichter Electric Upright Bass

Production : Produced By Frank Zappa . Todd Yvega – Synclavier Assistance . Spencer Chrislu – Engineer, Mixing . Harry Andronis – Engineer . Dave Dondorf – Engineer . Ali N. Askin – Arranger

Package : Brian Johnson – Art Direction, Design . Hans Jörg Michel – Photography . Henning Lobner – Photography . Jesse Di Franco – Art Direction, Design . Fritz Brinckmann – Photography

Recorded September 17–28, 1992 At Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Philharmonie, Berlin And Konzerthaus, Vienna.

Released On November 2, 1993 By Barking Pumpkin.

(Source Frank Zappa – The Yellow Shark | Zappa.com)

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allmusic
Zappa shined when ridiculing stupidity. The average fan of the man’s rock music will most probably feel lost in The Yellow Shark, but for those with interests in his serious music it is an essential item, more so than the London Symphony Orchestra and Orchestral Favorites albums. […]

Stereophile
The Yellow Shark is simultaneously Zappa’s least compromised recordingand an album of Zappa music for people who, until now, have hated Zappa music. For the rest of us, it’s what we’ve waited for his entire life. If you’ve never bought a Zappa album, start here—it’s one for the ages. And thanks, Frank, for everything. […]

kill ugly radio
Listening to Yellow Shark shows the depth of his composing and arranging abilityand it is amazing to find so many references to his older works built in to the music. Influences such as Stravinsky, Bartok, Webern etc abound in Yellow Shark, but also FZ himself is distinctively in the music. […]

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