The 15th album from this artist from USA.
Frank Zappa did the vocals, bass and guitars here himself.
He got help from numerous guests who provided percussion, drums, bass, guitars, violin, keyboards, woodwinds and vocals.
Fifteen albums into his discography, and I am probably half way through my reviews of all his studio albums, and I am not really sure who Frank Zappa was. He is an artist you cannot really label. Although avant-garde rock seems like a good fit.
You never really know what you get when you put on a Frank Zappa album.
This album sees Frank doing some rap and almost scatting like vocals. There is vocals here and the lyrical themes is weirdo and avant-garde strange. OK, it just occured to me that the vocals here is be-bop..... Indeed, they are.
They are backed up by some tasteful, sparse instrumentation and choirs. Tina Turner added female backing vocals.
The final part of this album is pure jazz and really good jazz. The vocals parts of this album is also good and this is one of his better albums...... so far.
This is an album I recommend.
3 points
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