Frank Zappa –
Civilization Phaze III
1994,
United States
01:53:30;
158M;
200JS-VBR;
237;
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'This Is Phaze III'
- 0:47
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Put A Motor In Yourself
- 5:13
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Umm'
- 0:50
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They Made Me Eat It
- 1:48
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Reagan At Bitburg
- 5:39
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'A Very Nice Body'
- 1:00
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Navanax
- 1:40
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'How The Pigs Music Works'
- 1:49
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Xmas Values
- 5:31
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'Dark Water!'
- 0:23
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Amnerika
- 3:03
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'Have You Heard Their Band'
- 0:38
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Religious Superstition
- 0:43
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'Saliva Can Only Take So Much'
- 0:27
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Buffalo Voice
- 5:12
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'Someplace Else Right Now'
- 0:32
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Get A Life
- 2:20
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'A Kayak (On Snow)'
- 0:28
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Lite
- 18:00
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'I Wish Motorhead Would Come B
- 0:14
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Secular Humanism
- 2:41
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'Attack! Attack! Attack!'
- 1:24
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I Was In A Drum
- 3:38
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'A Different Octave'
- 0:57
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'This Ain't CNN'
- 3:20
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'The Pigs Music'
- 1:17
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A Pig With Wings
- 2:52
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'This Is All Wrong'
- 1:42
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Hot & Putrid
- 0:29
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'Flowing Inside Out'
- 0:46
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'I Had A Dream About That'
- 0:27
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Gross Man
- 2:54
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'A Tunnel Into Muck'
- 0:21
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Why Not
- 2:18
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'Put A Little Motor In 'em'
- 0:50
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'You're Just Insultin' Me, Are
- 2:13
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Cold Light Generation'
- 0:44
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Dio Fa
- 8:18
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'That Would Be The End Of That
- 0:35
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Beat The Reaper
- 15:23
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Waffenspiel
- 4:04
Unknown Girl #1 - voice actor [1967]
Unknown Girl #2 - voice actor [1967]
Ali N. Askin - voice actor [1991]
Uri Balashov - design [cover]
James Barbour - voice actor [1967]
Andreas Böttger - marimba, percussion
Spencer Chrislu - engineer [synclavier material and final mixes]
Marque Coy - engineer [full ensemble recordings]
Louis "The Turkey" Cuneo - voice actor [1967]
Uwe Dierksen - trombone, trombone [pigmy], voice actor [1991]
Roland Diry - clarinet
Stefan Dohr - french horn, voice actor [1991]
Dave Dondorf - engineer [1991 dialogue and chamber group pieces]
Friedemann Dähn - cello
Roy Estrada - voice actor [1967]
Thomas Fichter - contrabass, electric bass
William Forman - trumpet, flugelhorn, voice actor [1991]
Walt Fowler - voice actor [1991]
Michael Gross - trumpet, flugelhorn, voice actor [1991]
Command A Studios, Inc. - art direction
All-Night John - voice actor [1967]
Hermann Kretzschmar - piano, celesta, voice actor [1991]
Dick Kunc - engineer [1967 dialogue]
Catherine Milliken - oboe, english horn, oboe [baritone], didgeridoo, voice actor [1991]
Ensemble Modern - ensemble
Monica - voice actor [1967]
Rumi Ogawa-Helferich - cimbalom, percussion
Franck Ollu - french horn, voice actor [1991]
Michael Rappaport - voice actor [1991]
Jürgen Ruck - guitar, banjo
Peter Rundel - violin [1]
Rainer Römer - saw [musical saw], percussion
Veit Scholz - bassoon, contrabassoon
Motorhead Sherwood - voice actor [1967]
Daryl Smith - tuba, voice actor [1991]
Wolfgang Stryi - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet [contrabass]
Hilary Sturt - viola
Michael Svoboda - trombone [bass], alphorn, didgeridoo, conch, voice actor [1991]
Mathias Tacke - violin [2]
Detlef Tewes - mandolin
Gilly Townley - voice actor [1967]
Dietmar Wiesner - piccolo flute, flute, flute [alto, bass]
Ueli Wiget - harp
Todd Yvega - engineer [full ensemble recordings], voice actor [1991]
Dweezil Zappa - voice actor [1991]
Frank Zappa - composed by, performer, conductor, liner notes, producer, compiled by, edited by, voice actor [1967]
Moon Zappa - voice actor [1991]
From the booklet:
In 1967, we spent about four months recording various projects […]. One day I decided to stuff a pair of U-87's 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 via the studio talk-back system.
This set-up remained in place for several days. During that time, many hours of recordings were made, most of it useless. […]
Some of this dialog - after extensive editing - found its way into the "Lumpy Gravy" album. The rest of it sat in my tape vault for decades, waiting for the glorious day when audio science would develop tools which might allow for its resurrection. […]
In "Civilization Phaze III" we get a few more clues about the lives of the piano-dwellers and note that the external evils have only gotten worse since we first met them. The bulk of the musical material comes from Synclavier sequences (all music in act one). In the second act, the music is a combination of Synclavier (70%) and live performance (30%), along with a new generation of piano people.
The new residents […] were recorded in a Bösendorfer Imperial at UMRK during the summer of 1991.[…]"
1967 dialog recorded at Apostolic Studio, NYC.
1991 dialog and chamber group pieces recorded at UMRK, Hollywood.
1991 full ensemble recordings engineered on the Synclavier Direct-to-Disc System at "Joe's Garage", North Hollywood.
1992 Synclavier material and all final mixes engineered at UMRK, Hollywood.
Liner notes: 1993.
Released in Digipak-like hardcover book format (14.5 x 13cm) with a 32-page booklet bound in, printed on semi-gloss white art with interleaved trace sheets (color printed translucent dividers), containing libretto & credits.
All selections © 1994 The Zappa Family Trust, exclusively administered worldwide by Munchin Music, ASCAP.
℗ 1994 The Zappa Family Trust exclusively licensed worldwide by Barking Pumpkin Records.
Artwork & Liner Notes © 1994 The Zappa Family Trust.
This is album #60.
(P) (C) 1994 The Zappa Family Trust.
Marketed and Distributed by Music For Nations.
Made in England.
Zappa Records, CDDZAP 56
