Taken together, Zappa and the companion soundtrack offer a riveting, revealing, and emotional portrait of Frank Zappa, a trailblazer, iconoclast, virtuosic musician, and fearless artist who forever changed music and culture with his unconventional and uncompromising vision. Announced on Kickstarter in 2016, the film became the highest-funded documentary in the crowdfunding site’s history.
Winter’s assembly features appearances by Zappa’s widow Gail Zappa and several of his musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, Ruth Underwood, Ray White, and others. With unfettered access to the Zappa Trust and all archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. The soundtrack is rounded out with 26 original score cues newly composed by John Frizzell for the documentary.Ī 2LP edition on 180-gram clear vinyl and 21-track digital edition will also be available, collecting together eight of the unreleased recordings from the Zappa archive, the SNL performance, and 13 recordings from Zappa’s extensive recording career.
It also includes two classical compositions by Zappa’s lifetime inspirations Edgard Varese and Igor Stravinsky as well as several interview clips. The soundtrack features songs from Zappa’s record labels Straight and Bizarre Records such as “No Longer Umpire” from Alice Cooper’s debut album, Pretties For You, originally released on Straight in 1969 “The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes” by GTO’s, from the all-girl group’s one and only album, Permanent Damage, produced by Zappa.
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