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Trance-Fusion | ||||
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Released | October 24, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 1977–1988 | |||
Genre | Instrumental rock | |||
Length | 61:40 | |||
Label | Zappa | |||
Producer | Frank Zappa | |||
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Trance-Fusion is an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not released until 2006. [2] The album had previously been announced for release in 1999 [3] and 2003, and again announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. It had previously been only available through bootlegs. [4]
Zappa had previously released several other albums consisting entirely of guitar solos: the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981, 1982) series, the cassette-only The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa (1987), Guitar (1988), and the posthumous Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute (1996).
All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.
No. | Title | Recording date and venue | Length |
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1. | "Chunga's Revenge" | Performed at Wembley Arena, London, UK: April 19, 1988. Features Dweezil Zappa | 7:01 |
2. | "Bowling on Charen" (Originally called "The Squirm") | Guitar solo from "Wild Love", performed at The Palladium, NYC: October 28, 1977 (early show) | 5:03 |
3. | "Good Lobna" | Guitar solo from "Let's Move to Cleveland", performed at Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee: December 4, 1984 | 1:39 |
4. | "A Cold Dark Matter" | Guitar solo from "Inca Roads", performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988 | 3:31 |
5. | "Butter or Cannons" | Guitar solo from "Let's Move to Cleveland", performed at The Pier, NYC: August 25, 1984 | 3:24 |
6. | "Ask Dr. Stupid" | Guitar solo from "Easy Meat", performed at Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, Germany: March 21, 1979 | 3:20 |
7. | "Scratch & Sniff" | Guitar solo from "City of Tiny Lights", performed at Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK: April 16, 1988 | 3:56 |
8. | "Trance-Fusion" | Guitar solo from "Marque-Son's Chicken", performed at Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany: May 24, 1988 | 4:19 |
9. | "Gorgo" | Guitar solo from "The Torture Never Stops", performed at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm: May 1, 1988 | 2:41 |
10. | "Diplodocus" | Guitar solo from "King Kong", performed at Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island: October 26, 1984 | 3:22 |
11. | "Soul Polka" | Guitar solo from "Oh No", performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988 | 3:17 |
12. | "For Giuseppe Franco" | Guitar solo from "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel", performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington: December 17, 1984 (late show) | 3:48 |
13. | "After Dinner Smoker" | Guitar solo from "The Torture Never Stops", performed at Palasport, Genoa, Italy: June 9, 1988 | 4:45 |
14. | "Light Is All That Matters" | Guitar solo from "Let's Move to Cleveland", performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December 17, 1984 (late show) | 3:46 |
15. | "Finding Higgs' Boson" | Guitar solo from "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel", performed at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria: May 8, 1988 | 3:41 |
16. | "Bavarian Sunset" | Guitar solo from post-"I Am the Walrus" jam, performed at Rudi-Sedlmeyer Sporthalle, Munich, Germany: May 9, 1988 | 4:00 |
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