ZAPPA/BOULEZ "The Perfect Stranger" 1984 EMI MINT AUDIO
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Apr 4, 2011
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Mar 25, 2011
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ZAPPA/BOULEZ "The Perfect Stranger" 1984 EMI MINT AUDIO
UNPLAYED, EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SOUND, TOP COPY
FRANK ZAPPA / PIERRE BOULEZ
The Perfect Stranger
ORIGINAL EMI (EL 27 0153 1) FIRST PRESSING (August 1984) OF "The Perfect Stranger" CONTAINING SOME OF ZAPPA'S 'SERIOUS' CLASSICAL PIECES CONDUCTED WITH FULL ORCHESTRA BY PIERRE BOULEZ
EACH PIECE IS DESCRIBED WITH A TYPICALLY ZAPPAESQUE CRAZY STORY (as outlined in the sleeve notes) AND THE MUSIC IS DECIDEDLY ATONAL, ANGULAR AND EPISODIC IN STRUCTURE AKIN TO OTHER EARLY/MID 20TH CENTURY AVANT-GARDE WORKS CLOSE TO ZAPPA'S HEART
AND THIS COPY IS IN BEAUTIFUL, UNPLAYED CONDITION (prior to my one careful play-grading) DELIVERING CRYSTAL CLEAR, DEEP, RICH, WARM AND EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AUDIO THROUGHOUT WITH NOTHING TO FAULT
THE RECORD WAS "PRESED BY EMI IN GERMANY FOR EMI RECORDS LTD. HAYES, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND" (like all copies available in the UK)
Frank Zappa often complained about how difficult it was to find a classical orchestra that would actually take the time to learn the scores it is presented and try its best to do a honourable job when it comes to contemporary composition and Zappa found in the mid-'80s Pierre Boulez' Ensemble InterContemporain who recorded this worthy session of material, released in August 1984 on EMI's classical imprint, Angel, as The Perfect Stranger.
The title track was commissioned by Boulez, and sees the composer coming back to the days of 200 Motels, both in terms of style (the music is very programmatic) and references (at the centre of the piece is the vacuum cleaner found in the aforementioned movie and in the cover artwork of the album Chunga's Revenge).
"Naval Aviation in Art?" and "Dupree's Paradise," the latter an old rock piece from 1973 rearranged for orchestra, are also performed by Boulez' ensemble.
The remaining four tracks are credited to "The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort" -- i.e., Zappa's Synclavier, a keyboard computer.
"Outside Now, Again" and "Jonestown" are among the darkest, moodiest pieces of computer music the man has written.
Track Listing:
Side 1:
1. The Perfect Stranger
2. Navel Aviation in Art?
3. The Girl in the Magnesium Dress
Side 2:
1. Outside Now, Again
2. Love Story
3. Dupree's Paradise
4. Jonestown
THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION AND PLAYS FLAWLESSLY WITH BEAUTIFULLY CLEAN SOUND
THE SLEEVE IS CRISP AND FRESH WITH LITTLE WEAR TO SPEAK OF - NEAR MINT
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