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Freak Out! Frank Zappa's Lost Final Album "Dance Me This" Slated For June Release

April 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Zappa - Dance Me ThisOn June 1, the final album recorded during the lifetime of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and musical iconoclast Frank Zappa will, at last, see the light of day.  The Zappa Family Trust has announced the release of Dance Me This as the landmark 100th Official Release from the composer-artist.

Though the ZFT has provided scant information, only indicating “This is it.  # 100.  The LAST album by Frank Zappa.  It’s 1993 and YOU ARE HERE!” on the official pre-order page, it’s believed that Dance Me This was the last album recorded by Zappa prior to his death in December 1993 at the age of 52.  The Guardian reports that Zappa told Guitarist Magazine in June 1993 that he was working on “a Synclavier album called Dance Me This, which is designed to be used by modern dance groups.  It’s probably not going to come out until next year.”  (The Synclavier, of course, was an early digital synthesizer/digital sampling system extensively used by Zappa on albums including Francesco Zappa and Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger, both from 1984.)  A promo cassette surfaced in 1994, but no commercial release of the material followed.

The Zappa Family Trust stated in email to its mailing list that Dance Me This is "the last title FZ finished in 1993 along with Trance-Fusion; the last chapter in his Master Work, Civilization Phaze III and, of course, The Rage and the Fury: The Music of Edgard Varese."  (Civilization Phaze III was posthumously released on Halloween, 1994.  It continued Zappa’s “conceptual continuity” begun with 1968’s We’re Only in It for the Money and the re-edited Lumpy Gravy.  The Rage and the Fury has yet to see release.)  The album's title track is said to feature a recording of Tuvan "throat singers," accompanied with a Synclavier composition.  Other track titles believed to be on the album include “Pachuco Gavotte,” “Goat Polo,” “Rykoniki,” “Piano,” “Calculus” and five movements of “Wolf Harbor.”

Dance Me This, the 100th release in Frank Zappa’s Official Release series, is available for pre-order now at the Barfko-Swill online store.  It’s due to arrive on June 1 from the Zappa Family Trust!

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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  1. William Keats says

    April 6, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    The throat singers on this recording are probably members of Huun-Huur-Tu, the Tuvan* folk group that has visited the US many times and made recordings at FZ's studio in 1993, including sessions with the Chieftains and Johnny Guitar Watson.

    *Technically, Tuva is a self-governing Russian republic, not part of China.

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    • Camarillo Brillo says

      April 7, 2015 at 12:39 am

      Part of the federal state of Siberia. Russian through and through

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