Trance-Fusion

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Trance-Fusion is the name of an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not released until 2006. The album had previously been announced for release in 1999, and 2003 and again announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. It had previously been only available through bootlegs.

Zappa had previously released several other albums consisting entirely of guitar solos - Guitar, the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar series, The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa, and the posthumous Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute.

Track listing

1. "Chunga's Revenge" - 7:01
   • Performed at Wembley Arena, London, UK: April 19, 1988. Features Dweezil Zappa
2. "Bowling on Charen" - 5:03
   • Guitar solo from Wild Love, performed at The Palladium, NYC: October 28, 1977 (early show)
   • Originally called The Squirm
3. "Good Lobna" - 1:39
   • Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee: December 4, 1984
   • Refers to an episode of The Simpsons: "New Kid on the Block," in which Bart says this line. Series creator Matt Groening is a Zappa fan.
4. "A Cold Dark Matter" - 3:31
   • Guitar solo from Inca Roads, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
   • Refers to cold dark matter, a term from cosmology and particle physics.
5. "Butter or Cannons" - 3:24
   • Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at The Pier, NYC: August 25, 1984
6. "Ask Dr. Stupid" - 3:20
   • Guitar solo from Easy Meat, performed at Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, Germany: March 21, 1979
   • Refers to a recurring segment from The Ren and Stimpy Show. Series creator John Kricfalusi is also a Zappa fan, and Zappa provided the voice of "The Pope" on one episode of the series.
7. "Scratch & Sniff" - 3:56
   • Guitar solo from City Of Tiny Lights, performed at Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK: April 16, 1988
8. "Trance-Fusion" - 4:19
   • Guitar solo from Marque-Son's Chicken, performed at Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany: May 24, 1988
9. "Gorgo" - 2:41
   • Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm: May 1, 1988
   • May refer to the 1961 science fiction film (Zappa is known to be a fan of monster movies), or Gorgonzola, the Zappa family's cat. Most likely refers to Gorgo (presumably a roadie or security guard) as listed in the liner notes.
10. "Diplodocus" - 3:22
    • Guitar solo from King Kong, performed at Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island: October 26, 1984
11. "Soul Polka"' - 3:17
    • Guitar solo from Oh No, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
12. "For Giuseppe Franco" - 3:48
    • Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington: December 17, 1984 (late show)
13. "After Dinner Smoker" - 4:45
    • Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Palasport, Genoa, Italy: June 9, 1988
14. "Light is All That Matters" - 3:46
    • Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland,performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December 17, 1984 (late show)
15. "Finding Higgs' Boson" - 3:41
    • Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria: May 8, 1988
    • Refers to the Higgs Boson, a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.
16. "Bavarian Sunset" - 4:00
    • Guitar solo from post-I Am The Walrus jam, performed at Rudi-Sedlmeyer Sporthalle, Munich, Germany: May 9, 1988

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – guitar, all tracks
• Dweezil Zappa – guitar on tracks 1 and 16
• Mike Keneally – rhythm guitar and keyboards on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Bobby Martin – keyboards on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• Ed Mann – percussion on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Walt Fowler – trumpet, flugelhorn and keyboards on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Bruce Fowler – trombone on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Paul Carmen – alto, soprano, and baritone saxophone on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Albert Wing – tenor saxophone on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Kurt McGettrick – baritone, bass saxophone and contrabass clarinet on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Scott Thunes – bass and mini-Moog on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• Chad Wackerman – drums and percussion on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• Ray White – rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
• Allan Zavod – keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
• Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar on track 6
• Denny Walley – slide guitar on track 6
• Tommy Mars – keyboards on tracks 2 and 6
• Peter Wolf – keyboards on tracks 2 and 6
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums on track 6
• Adrian Belew – rhythm guitar on track 2
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass on track 2
• Terry Bozzio – drums on track 2

External links

• Trance-Fusion at Zappa.com

References

1. "Information Is Not Knowledge: FZ Discography". Retrieved October 27, 2006.