Le quarantième anniversaire de la publication de Freak Out !, premier concept album rock enregistré par Frank Zappa en mars-avril 1966, sera marqué par la sortie imminente de MOFO (Making Of Freak Out), un box set 4 CD en édition limitée, disponible uniquement sur le site officiel.
Une version double CD de MOFO doit paraître simultanément, en vente chez les meilleurs disquaires et sur le site marchand dédié à Zappa G & S Music.
Le 24 octobre prochain, Trance-Fusion, album de solos de guitare attendu depuis 2003 (date initiale prévue mordicus) sera dans les bacs.
Tracklist
1. Chunga's Revenge (London, 4/19/88, w/Dweezil)
2. Bowling on Charen ("Wild Love" solo, NYC, 10/28/77 #1)
3. Good Lobna ("Cleveland" solo, Memphis 12/4/84)
4. A Cold Dark Matter ("Inca Roads" solo from Allentown, 3/19/88)
5. Butter Or Canons ("Cleveland" solo from NYC, 8/25/84)
6. Ask Dr. Stupid ("Easy Meat" solo from Eppelheim, 3/21/79)
7. Scratch & Sniff ("City of Tiny Lights" solo from Brighton 4/16/88)
8. Trance-Fusion ("Marqueson's Chicken" solo from Stuttgart, 5/24/88)
9. Gorgo ("Torture" solo from Stockholm, 5/1/88)
10. Diplodocus ("King Kong" solo from Providence, 10/26/84)
11. Soul Polka ("Oh No" solo from Allentown, 3/19/88)
12. For Giuseppe Franco ("Hot Plate Heaven" solo from Seattle 12/17/84 #2)
13. After Dinner Smoker (another "Torture" solo from Genoa, 6/9/88)
14. Light Is All That Matters ("Cleveland" solo(s) from Seattle, 12/17/84 #2)
15. Finding Higg's Boson ("Hot Plate Heaven" solo from Vienna, 5/8/88)
16. Bavarian Sunset (post-"Walrus" jam from Munich, 05/09/88, w/ Dweezil)
Rappelons que l'événement connaît depuis longtemps une existence bootleg, grâce à l'activité très underground du label italien RXZ Records.
RXZ Records are a very active, overt and public high-profile bootleg label in Italy, started in the 1990s, run by a huge Zappa fan, who for some reason hasn't been busted by the police yet. They seem to be on the one hand re-issuing classic bootlegs and on the other hand making new lavish boxes and basic, one-show titles:
- The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (10-CD box re-issue, RXZ 301-310)
- Norwegian Rhapsody (2-CD box re-issue, RXZ 311-312/A)
- 20 Years of Frank Zappa (12-CD box re-issue, RXZ 313A-324A)
- The Untouchables (2-CD set re-issue, RXZ 325A-326A)
- The Godfather in Full Metal Jacket (2-CD set re-issue, RXZ CD 327A-328A)
- An Evening with Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart (re-issue)
- Trance-Fusion Demos
- Mothermania (it says (a)RF Records on it, but RXZ Records have advertised it, and may have copied it, or even made it under the name of (a)RF Records to begin with)
- The Godfather Meets the Untouchables (3-CD set re-issue)
- Broadway the Hard Way in USA (6-CD box, RXZ CD 332A-337A)
- Broadway the Hard Way in Europe (6-CD box, RXZ CD 338A-343A)
- Bongo Fury El Paso TX (RXZ CD 344A/355A)
- Uptown in Chicago Part 1 (RXZ CD 346A)
- Milwaukee State Fair 8-Oct-1984 Part 1 (RXZ CD 347A)
En attendant la sortie de Trance-Fusion, il est toujours possible de s'amuser en jetant un coup d'oeil, vraiment oblique, du côté de Trancefusion.