'Outside Now Again' is a Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa's guitar solo in the song 'Outside Now' from the 1979 Joe's Garage album. The remaining four tracks are credited to 'The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort'-in fact, Zappa's Synclavier. The title track was also commissioned by Boulez, and contains references to Zappa's 1971 film, 200 Motels.

Later reissues (of the same master) were by Rykodisc in 1995 and Zappa/Universal in 2012.īoulez conducted three tracks ('The Perfect Stranger', 'Naval Aviation in Art?' and 'Dupree's Paradise'), recorded at IRCAM, Paris on January 10 and January 11, 1984, and performed by Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain. It was originally issued on vinyl in 1984 and on CD in 1985 by Angel, and then in remixed and resequenced form on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1991. But again, I found it interesting, there's a lot of fly-on-the-wall detail in it that goes a bit deeper past the 'legend.'The Perfect Stranger is a 1984 album featuring the music of Frank Zappa, conducted in part by Pierre Boulez. It's just one person's perspective on a brief period, as opposed to a complete view, as it is her memoir of the time, not a full bio of FZ. Hardly seemed a groupie in that regard, Zappa hired her to be his secretary. She was also a relatively cultured British woman who didn't really know Zappa's work at first, and no, doesn't pretend to interpret it or say too much about it. If you are referring indeed to the right book, she wrote based on what she wrote down in that time period, so the amount of recall didn't phase me.

Yikes, well it's four recommends for that so far, versus your one avoid. I think the book has been mentioned here by a few not because it is the definitive best book on FZ, just that it is not so well known as many others, and is decent in our opinion. Regarding 'failing to bed Zappa', she was an attractive woman who spent time living in FZ's home, and he had some known affairs, so if she did address any possible sexual tension between her and FZ, it wouldn't surprise me, but I don't really recall.

But again, I found it interesting, there's a lot of fly-on-the-wall detail in it that goes a bit deeper past the 'legend.' Click to expand.Yikes, well it's four recommends for that so far, versus your one avoid.

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