Greggery Peccary and Other Persuasions: The Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa
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Composer: Frank ZappaPerformer: Ensemble Modern
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Moggio
- What Will Rumi Do?
- Night School
- Revised Music For Low Budget Orchestra
- The Beltway Bandits
- A Pig With Wings
- Put A Motor In Yourself
- Peaches En Regalia
- Naval Aviation In Art?
- The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
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Hit: 5 Stars
If you're a fan of The Yellow Shark, Everything Is Healing Nicely, Civilization Phaze III, Jazz From Hell, The Perfect Stranger, and perhaps LSO I&II, then you will want this recording. Also, if you're a fan of Stravinsky, Webern, Varese, or contemporary classical music of that genre, you should have no problem with this music. The Ensemble Modern are excellent... the performances seem flawless to me, and it seems there's a conviction to the work and the composer often lacking in other recordings or interpretations of Zappa's 'serious' music, like The London Symphony Orchestra Plays Zappa (LSO I&II) for instance. The memebers of EM also seem to have no problem playing Frank's Synclavier compositions either, and it's nice to here them played by real musicians instead of a machine, eventhough I love his Synclavier work too. Performed this way, pieces like "Night School", "Put A Motor In Yourself" and "A Pig With Wings" seem to have added depth and color. "Greggery Peccary" is awesome too... it does lack a little something, perhaps the absence of Frank's voice, but it's still a great version... definitely worth having, and the little surprise at the end from 200 Motels is great. It's a new arrangement from the "Stealing The Room" segment of the film. I think this is a must have recording for any true fan of Zappa's work. Kudos to Ali Askin for transcribing a lot of this music so well, and to Todd Yvega for creating a program to convert the Synclavier files to some workable format for Ali and the musicians. I realize that for the most part these are not Zappa arrangements per se, meaning they had to work from what was available to them (the liner notes go into more detail) but I think Zappa would have been more than pleased with the performances, and interpretations, etc.
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