Trance-Fusion
{{Infobox album
| name = Trance-Fusion
| type = live
| artist = Frank Zappa
| cover = Trance-Fusion artwork.jpg
| alt =
| released = October 24, 2006
| recorded = 1977–1988
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Instrumental rock
| length = 61:40
| label = Zappa
| producer = Frank Zappa
| prev_title = The MOFO Project/Object
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Buffalo
| next_year = 2007
}}
Trance-Fusion is an album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously in 2006, 13 years after the musician's death, the album forms the third in a trilogy of instrumental albums which focus on Zappa's improvised guitar solos, after Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981) and Guitar (1988).{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r928086 |title=Trance-Fusion - Frank Zappa | AllMusic |first=S. |last=Westergaard |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=22 July 2011}} Trance-Fusion was among the last albums completed by Zappa before his death, along with The Rage & The Fury: The Music Of Edgard Varèse, Dance Me This and Civilization Phaze III.{{cite web |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/frank-zappas-final-album-gets-release-date-67615/ |title=Frank Zappa's final album gets release date |last=Bonner |first=Michael |date=April 7, 2015 |publisher=Uncut Magazine |access-date=2023-01-21}} It was also among the first releases by Zappa to be made available digitally via iTunes through Gail Zappa's distribution deal with Universal Music Enterprises.{{cite web |url=https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/sixteen-essential-frank-zappa-albums-hit-the-internet/ |title=Sixteen Essential Frank Zappa Albums Hit The Internet |date=September 23, 2015 |author=Nieuws |publisher=Blues Magazine |access-date=2023-01-21}}
Reception
Track listing
All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Recording date and venue
| title1 = Chunga's Revenge
| length1 = 7:01
| extra1 = Performed at Wembley Arena, London, UK: April 19, 1988. Features Dweezil Zappa
| title2 = Bowling on Charen
| note2 = Originally called "The Squirm"
| length2 = 5:03
| extra2 = Guitar solo from "Wild Love", performed at The Palladium, NYC: October 28, 1977 (early show)
| title3 = Good Lobna
| length3 = 1:39
| extra3 = Guitar solo from "Let's Move to Cleveland", performed at Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee: December 4, 1984
| title4 = A Cold Dark Matter
| length4 = 3:31
| extra4 = Guitar solo from "Inca Roads", performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
| title5 = Butter or Cannons
| length5 = 3:24
| extra5 = Guitar solo from "Let's Move to Cleveland", performed at The Pier, NYC: August 25, 1984
| title6 = Ask Dr. Stupid
| length6 = 3:20
| extra6 = Guitar solo from "Easy Meat", performed at Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, Germany: March 21, 1979
| title7 = Scratch & Sniff
| length7 = 3:56
| extra7 = Guitar solo from "City of Tiny Lights", performed at Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK: April 16, 1988
| title8 = Trance-Fusion
| length8 = 4:19
| extra8 = Guitar solo from "Marque-Son's Chicken", performed at Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany: May 24, 1988
| title9 = Gorgo
| length9 = 2:41
| extra9 = Guitar solo from "The Torture Never Stops", performed at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm: May 1, 1988
| title10 = Diplodocus
| length10 = 3:22
| extra10 = Guitar solo from "King Kong", performed at Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island: October 26, 1984
| title11 = Soul Polka
| length11 = 3:17
| extra11 = Guitar solo from "Oh No", performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
| title12 = For Giuseppe Franco
| length12 = 3:48
| extra12 = Guitar solo from "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel", performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington: December 17, 1984 (late show)
| title13 = After Dinner Smoker
| length13 = 4:45
| extra13 = Guitar solo from "The Torture Never Stops", performed at Palasport, Genoa, Italy: June 9, 1988
| title14 = Light Is All That Matters
| length14 = 3:46
| extra14 = Guitar solo from "Let's Move to Cleveland", performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December 17, 1984 (late show)
| title15 = Finding Higgs' Boson
| length15 = 3:41
| extra15 = Guitar solo from "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel", performed at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria: May 8, 1988
| title16 = Bavarian Sunset
| length16 = 4:00
| extra16 = 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
- Adrian Belew – rhythm guitar on track 2
- Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar on track 6
- Mike Keneally – rhythm guitar and keyboards on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
- Denny Walley – slide guitar on track 6
- Ray White – rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
- Ike Willis – rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
- Tommy Mars – keyboards on tracks 2 and 6
- Bobby Martin – keyboards on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
- Peter Wolf – keyboards on tracks 2 and 6
- Allan Zavod – keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
- Scott Thunes – bass and mini-Moog on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
- Patrick O'Hearn – bass on track 2
- Arthur Barrow – bass on track 6 (uncredited in the booklet)
- Chad Wackerman – drums and percussion on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
- Terry Bozzio – drums on track 2
- Ed Mann – percussion on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
- Paul Carman – 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
- 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
- Vinnie Colaiuta – drums on track 6
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.zappa.com/music/trance-fusion Trance-Fusion at Zappa.com]
{{Frank Zappa albums}}
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Category:Live albums published posthumously