Quaudiophiliac

Infobox Album |
Name = Quaudiophiliac
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Frank Zappa


Released = September 14, 2004
Recorded = March 1, 1970–1978
Genre = Jazz fusion, hard rock, experimental rock
Length = 50:36
Label = Vaulternative
Producer = Frank Zappa,
Dweezil Zappa
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dxknikndbbo9~T1 link]
Last album = "Joe's Corsage"
(2004)
This album = "Quaudiophiliac"
(2004)
Next album = "Joe's Domage"
(2004)

"Quaudiophiliac" (capitalized as "QuAUDIOPHILIAc" on the album cover) is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa, released in 2004 by the "Zappa Family Trust". It compiles recordings he made while experimenting with "quadraphonic", or four-channel, sound in the 1970s. Produced by Zappa, and completed by his son, Dweezil Zappa, it is his first foray into surround sound formatted music. Zappa prepared quadraphonic mixes of a number of his 1970s albums, which were left unreleased without a suitable format available on which to realize them, and "Quaudiophiliac" was billed as the first in a series of releases to feature this material.

Several of the tracks present on "Quaudiophiliac" were previously unreleased, or were only available in edited form. The recordings date from as early as 1970, with "Chunga Basement", a version of the title track from "Chunga's Revenge" (1970). Also included are three tracks from the 1975 Royce Hall, UCLA concerts with the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra which would become "Orchestral Favorites" (1979).

Track listing

# "Naval Aviation in Art?" – 1:34
# "Lumpy Gravy" – 1:05
# "Rollo" – 6:00
# "Drooling Midrange Accountants on Easter Hay" – 2:15
# "Wild Love" – 4:07
# "Ship Ahoy" – 5:47
# "Chunga Basement" – 11:48
# "Venusian Time Bandits" – 1:54
# "Waka/Jawaka" – 13:23
# "Basement Music #2" – 2:

Personnel

Musicians

* Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, arranger, conductor
* Mike Altschul – bass clarinet, bass flute, piccolo, bass saxophone, tenor saxophone
* Napoleon Murphy Brock – vocals
* Adrian Belew – guitar
* Max Bennett – bass guitar
* Terry Bozzio – drums, vocals
* Billy Byers – trombone, baritone horn
* Alex Dmochowski – bass guitar
* George Duke – keyboards
* Aynsley Dunbar – drums
* Roy Estrada – bass guitar
* Tom Fowler – bass guitar
* Andre Lewis – keyboards
* Ed Mann – percussion
* Sal Marquez – trumpet, flugelhorn
* Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals
* Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar
* Kenny Shroyer – trombone, baritone horn
* Chester Thompson – drums
* Ian Underwood – keyboards

Production

* Frank Zappa – producer, engineer, mixing
* Art Kelm – technical support
* Richard Landers – technical support
* Jeff Levison – production supervisor
* Fred Maher – technical support, artist relations
* Stephen Marcussen – mastering
* Jaime Ramírez – production coordination
* Jeff Skillen – executive producer
* Joe Travers – vault research
* John "Buddy" Williams – photography, cover photo
* Dweezil Zappa – producer, engineer
* Gail Zappa – executive producer, art direction, photography

References

External links

* [http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/QuAUDIOPHILIAc.html Lyrics and details]
* [http://www.zappa.com/QuAUDIOPHILIAc/ "Quaudiophiliac" at zappa.com]