Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions
| Tributes & Cover Albums | |
|---|---|
| Released January 2004 | |
| See also: The Man From Utopia Jazz From Hell EIHN Studio Tan Civilization Phaze III The Perfect Stranger Hot Rats | |
Players
The Ensemble Modern:
- Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor)
- Dietmar Wiesner (flute, piccolo)
- Catherine Milliken (oboe, English horn, oboe d'amore)
- Roland Diry (clarinets)
- Wolfgang Stryi (bass clarinet, saxophone)
- Johannes Rupe (bassoon, contrabassoon)
- Simon Breyer (horn)
- Valentin Garvie (trumpet)
- Sava Stoianov (trumpet)
- Uwe Dierksen (trombone)
- Jozsef Juhasz (tuba)
- Rumi Ogawa (percussion)
- Rainer Römer (percussion)
- Pascal Pons (percussion)
- Hermann Kretzschmar (piano, sampler, synthesizer)
- Ueli Wiget (piano, sampler, synthesizer)
- Manon Morris (harp)
- Detlef Tewes (mandolin, mandola)
- Jürgen Ruck (guitar, electric guitar, banjo)
- Mats Bergström (guitar, electric guitar)
- Jagdish Mistry (violin)
- Freya Ritts-Kirby (violin)
- Susan Knight (viola)
- Tom Dunn (viola)
- Eva Böcker (cello)
- Michael M. Kasper (cello)
- Christopher Brandt (electric bass)
- Corin Long (double bass)
- Norbert Ommer (sound director)
- Ali N. Askin (arrangements, transcriptions, sampling, sample arrangement and on track #10: Steno Pool choir)
- Omar Ebrahim (voice on track #10: Greggery Peccary)
- David Moss (voices on track #10: narrator, Billy the Mountain, Quentin Robert DeNameland)
- Todd Yvega (synclavier transcriptions, sampling, sample arrangement)
Tracks
- Moggio (2:43)
- What Will Rumi Do? (1:36)
- Night School (4:50)
- Revised Music For Low Budget Orchestra (7:37)
- The Beltway Bandits (3:37)
- A Pig With Wings (4:25)
- Put A Motor In Yourself (5:21)
- Peaches En Regalia (3:08)
- Naval Aviation In Art? (2:29)
- The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (25:20)
- The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (21:15)
- blank (0:29)
- Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? (3:36) - 'hidden' track
Release Notes
Recorded July 1-7 2002 & December 14, 2002, Frankfurt, Germany.
Executive producer: Ensemble Modern
Produced by Uli Schneider.
Digital editing: Jan-Peter Pflug
Mastering: Ralph Kessler (Pinguin Mastering, Hamburg)
Recording Technicians: Peter Brandt, Jan Mahlmann
Liner Notes
Background Information
These are arrangements of compositions and fragments Frank Zappa had stored on his "synclavier", a computer-keyboard that he used toward the end of his life to compose his bizarre and barely describable music.
Conceptual Continuity
Versions
| ZFT # | Version # | # discs | Format | Catalog # | Release (YYYY-MM-DD) |
Barcode (EAN-13) |
Artwork | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | 1 Original Stereo |
1 | Copy Control "CD" | RCA Red Seal/ BMG Ariola Classics 82876 56061 2 |
2003-11-17 | 0828765606127 | Christine Schweitzer | German edition, DDD. Matrix # IFPI 0763 Sonopress 50881702/82876560612 01 IFPI LB 45 |
| 1 | CD | RCA Red Seal/ BMG Classics 82876-59842-2 |
2004-03-23 | 0828765984225 | US edition, DDD. Matrix # IFPI 1074 82876598422 arvato digital services + + J418104 IFPI L028 |
