Sleep Dirt

Sleep Dirt
Studio album by Frank Zappa
Publication (s)	January 12, 1979
Label (s)	Discreet Records (LP) Barking Pumpkin Records , Rykodisc (CD)
Format (s)	LP vinyl , CD
Genre (s)	fusion
Title (number)	7th
occupation	Frank Zappa - lead guitar , keyboard on Filthy Habits , percussion on Regyptian Strut Thana Harris - vocals (CD) Dave Partato - bass on Filthy Habits , Spider of Destiny Terry Bozzio - drums on Filthy Habits , The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution Chester Thompson - drums on Flambay (LP), Spider of Destiny (LP), Regyptian Strut (LP, CD), Time Is Money Chad Wackerman - drums on Flambay (CD), Spider of Destiny (CD), Regyptian Strut (CD 1995) George Duke - Keyboard on Filthy Habits , Spider of Destiny , Regyptian Strut , Timne Is Money , Synthesizer Bass on Time is Money Patrick O'Hearn - double bass on Flambay , Spider of Destiny , The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution James "Bird Legs" Youmans - electro bass, acoustic guitar on Sleep Dirt Ruth Underwood - percussion on Flambay , Spider of Destiny , Regyptian Strut , Time Is Money
production	Frank Zappa
Studio (s)	Caribou Studios, Nederland, Colorado Record Plant, Los Angeles (bass overdub 1976) Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (vocals and drums overdub, 1981–1984)
chronology Studio Tan (1978) Sleep Dirt Sheik Yerbouti (1979)

Sleep Dirt is an instrumental fusion album by Frank Zappa that was released on vinyl in 1979. The album was reissued on CD in 1991, while Zappa had added three pieces ( Flambay , Spider of Destiny and Time Is Money ) with vocal parts that Thana Harris had sung. The texts were originally planned, but were initially not realized and belong to the musical Hunchentoot, which was conceived in 1972 and remained unfinished .

Zappa was in litigation with his record label Warner Brothers while the album was being released. Zappa was therefore unable to influence the form of the publication. He disagreed with the Warner Brothers album title and the cover designed by Gary Panter. Originally the album should have been called Hot Rats III , a reference to his first fusion album Hot Rats and its later follow-up album Waka / Jawaka , which was also referred to as Hot Rats II .

Track list

1. Filthy Habits 7:33
2. Flambay 4:54
3. Spider of Destiny 2:33
4. Regyptian Strut 4:13
5. Time Is Money 2:49
6. Sleep Dirt 3:21
7. The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution 13:17

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Sleep Dirt   US 175 02/24/1979 (4 weeks)

Sleep Dirt reached number 175 on the Billboard charts . Kelly Fisher Lowe considers it "another interesting and overlooked record in Zappa's catalog".

literature

• Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 5, Section Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, and Sleep Dirt , pp. 138-140 .
• Frank Wonneberg : Grand Zappa - International Frank Zappa Discology . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-581-4 .

Web links

• Sleep Dirt in the official discography on zappa.com. Retrieved June 29, 2011 .  ,
• Frank Zappa. Texts and background information on Sleep Dirt on globalia.net. Retrieved June 29, 2011 . 
• Sleep Dirt (CD version) on Allmusic (English)
• Reviews of Sleep Dirt on the baby blue pages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide. Sleep Dirt . Retrieved June 28, 2011 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 5, Section Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, and Sleep Dirt , pp. 138-140 .
3. ↑ Charts US