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Frank Zappa – QuAUDIOPHILIAc (full album): “It all started with a box…” (Dweezil Zappa)

QuAUDIOPHILIAc by Frank Zappa
Experimental works published posthumously. Quadraphony uses four channels for recording and broadcasting, as in the Quad-8 system, as opposed to stereo which uses two channels.
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Album notes by Dweezil Zappa – July 24, 2004
It all started with a box, a familiar name, a little dust and a drawing. What started? you ask. A project. What project? This one, with others to follow. You see, in the Vault here at UMRK we have begun the process of transmogrification. What does that mean to me? you ask. And what about the dusty drawing name and the box or whatever the hell you were just talking about before you transmogrified yourself? I’m glad you asked. Here’s the deal…
Some people are wise and some people are otherwise. My Father, Frank Zappa, was certainly both. He was a composer who arranged tones textures and rhythms in a way that was certainly unique as we all know, but he was also uniquely inspired by sound itself. This audio protein wafer that you are now clutching contains scientific proof that nuggets do exist.
Now for the box… it was a small box. It was dusty. It had a name on it. It said “Dweezil”. It also had a date (1970) and a drawing. It was a curious discovery. Imagine if your name was Dweezil and you found a box with your name on it with a date mere months after you were born and a drawing on it. You would be pretty interested to discover the contents of this box, wouldn’t you? Well by sheer coincidence my name is Dweezil and I sure as hell was dying to open the box.
With the help of Vault meister Joe Travers we opened the box. Inside was a tape. We carefully placed the tape on the tape machine and asked it to play. When it didn’t, we forced it to by pressing play on the machine. It became obvious that there was something different about what we were hearing. It was 3 dimensional… No, it was 4 dimensional! That’s when we decided to study the picture on the box.
It was a panning map for Quaudio. This recording was as close to an audio photograph of an event as you could ever get. It captured the very essence of a song (“Chunga’s revenge”) in it’s infancy and allowed the listener to truly feel as though they were sitting in the middle of Frank Zappa’s basement studio while he was experimenting with air molecules on transverse planes.
I for one was fucking excited. I asked Joe if he thought there was more stuff like the stuff we just heard. He replied: “Oh yeah, sweetnitz”.
I took this as a good sign. Joe excavated a small area of the Vault for a few hours and unearthed many tapes containing many hours of multichannel audio mixes. There were no more drawings: by now they had morphed into initials… LCRS (Left Center Right and Surround for the uninitiated). These tapes were more advanced. They were almost walking upright. They were born in the mid 70’s. (By the way, “Dweezil” was on the original aforementioned box because Frank apparently toyed with the idea of having a band called Dweezil. Nice piece of trivia, huh). What we now had were the ingredients for this most mysteriously enjoyable listening experience.
To make a long story short, this disc is an audio documentary of Frank Zappa’s multichannel recordings and mixes from 1970 to 1978. I did not sequence it chronologically. Instead, I chose to create an interludicrous journey that we could all experience together. There are a few modern elements that I have added to make tidy segues like the one where I superimposed an old quote of Frank discussing the record business over a never heard until now alternate arrangement of “Easter hay”. But otherwise, what you hear is what Frank was thinking about more than 30 years ago. It’s clear he was way ahead of the curve.
Now that we’re in the year 2004 and multichannel audio is just starting to be recognized as a legitimate format, it is such a shame that he is not here to continue his pioneering efforts in person and amaze us all with his multichannel air sculptures. I believe he is still the Revenant in Residence here at the UMRK and I look forward to working on many more multichannel projects with him in the future.
There are many more boxes in the Vault all with their own special dust particles and a lot more music to be discovered and enjoyed by all of us. By the way, I just have to say… “Rollo” is fucking bitchen!
I hope you enjoy this record as much as I do. (Dweezil Zappa)
(Source: translatedzappa.com)

Track list

Naval aviation in art?
Lumpy gravy (Envelops the bath tub)
Rollo
Drooling midrange accountants on Easter hay (Watermelon in Easter hay)
Wild love
Ship ahoy
Chunga basement (Chunga’s revenge)
Venusian time bandits (Trouble every day)
Waka/Jawaka
Basement music 2

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