Camarillo Brillo

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Camarillo Brillo is a song by Frank Zappa that was first released on his 1973 album Over-Nite Sensation .

The title of the song is a play on words resulting from the incorrect emphasis on the city of Camarillo , California, and the brand name Brillo (an American trademark for cleaning sponges made from steel wool ). The song also contains many slang expressions and artificial words. Examples of this from the lyrics are the word "nekkid" - a phonetic misspelling of the English adjective naked - as well as the word creation "unconcho" (actually unconscious, "unconscious"); here a rhyme on poncho forced by misspellings .

text

Thematically, the song is a criticism of the mysticism of the hippie culture, which is also echoed in other songs by Frank Zappa. The narrator of the story meets a woman who has a Camarillo Brillo , here probably a kind of matted hairstyle. The woman sees herself as a "magic Mama" (English: Magic Mama ) which has a nasty Tarot can lay. The authenticity of the song's protagonist is questioned by the question of whether the poncho she is taking off is a “real poncho” from Mexico or one that was bought from the mail order company Sears & Roebuck : “Is that a real poncho? ... I mean / Is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho? No foolin '. "

Zappa also used text passages from the song in other pieces of music. The Toads of the Short Forest (German: "Toads of the Short Forest") mentioned in Camarillo Brillo's lyrics had previously appeared as the title of a composition on the 1970 Zappa album Weasels Ripped My Flesh . The question of whether it is a "Sears poncho" is also used in the song Cosmik Debris on Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe (') .

The sociologist Ben Watson interprets the song as a comic representation of sex with a hippie, which records how "spooky" the alternative culture had become in 1973. Camarillo Brillo is a song of submission to the meaningless rule of sexuality, an examination of the philosophical implications of materialism .

music

Camarillo Brillo is played in E major with the refrain transitioning to D major. Zappa uses a variety of brass instruments as well as a wide variety of percussion techniques. The song ends in a short coda played on the piano .

A varied stanza form prevails in the piece . A stanza consists of four lines, each of which is divided into four bars, with two lines of the same melody forming the cadence E - B - A - fis - c sharp , which is repeated six times. The eight-line refrain is modulated harmoniously.

In 1975 the song Muffin Man was integrated into Zappa's live repertoire and Camarillo Brillo was subsequently played as a medley .

Publications

Singles

  • Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (02:07) / Camarillo Brillo (03:59) - Frank Zappa (1974)

Albums

(in order of appearance)

  • Over-nite sensation
  • Unmitigated Audacity
  • Bubble Cream Cheese
  • An evening in Detroit
  • What's New in Loreley?
  • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 6

Tribute and cover albums

  • Tributo a Zappa , Vol. 1, by Siniestro Total
  • Bonnen: Watermelon En Regalia

Musician of the first publication

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Made in America: From Levi's to Barbie to Google, by Nick Freeth . books.google.de. Retrieved September 5, 2009.
  2. ↑ "She said she was a magic mama, and she could throw a mean tarot." - Frank Zappa: Camarillo Brillo, 1st stanza. Album Overnite Sensation , 1973
  3. ^ Frank Zappa: Camararillo Brillo, album Overnite Sensation , 1973
  4. ↑ Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The negative dialectics of poodle play, p. 222. Reprint, London 1996. ISBN 070430242X
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Ludwig: Investigations into the musical creation of Frank Zappa - a music-sociological and analytical study to determine a musical style , p. 83 ff. (European university publications, series XXXVI, musicology, volume 88). Verlag Peter Lang 1991, ISBN 3-631-45128-8
  6. ↑ The fruit basket - watermelon en regalia . www.obst-music.com. Retrieved September 5, 2009.

Web links

literature

  • Poetry of Reality: Composing with Recorded Sound (Contemporary Music Review (ME Sharpe)), by Katherine Norman, page 123, 192 pages, Routledge Verlag, ISBN 3718659328 , ISBN 978-3718659326