Vaulternative Records

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Vaulternative Records is an American music label that was founded by the relatives of the composer and rock musician Frank Zappa in 2002 and is part of the Zappa Family Trust . So far, only live recordings of concerts by the Mothers of Invention or one of the Zappa bands have appeared on the label .

history

As Zappa's widow Gail explains on the Zappa website, the label is designed as the “home of the concert programs”. It is well known that Zappa began very early in his career as a musician to record all the concerts of his bands and to collect them in his extensive archive, which he called “The Vault” (German: crypt, cellar). As Gail Zappa told the Australian journalist Germaine Greer , she hoped to bring out around 100 albums on the new label; for many of them there are already master tapes completed by Zappa. In an interview with journalist Jim Bessman, her son Dweezil added that the aim was to make the differences between the many Zappa bands clear: “There will be a lot of material that people already know - but not with these musicians and arrangements . "

In an interview with ex-GTO’s singer Pamela Des Barres ("Miss Pamela") in 2002, Gail Zappa expressed the hope of being able to release four to five albums per year. Since the first release in August 2002, the 15 to 20 albums originally thought to be likely have not been released, but so far five. The first was the double CD FZ: OZ , which was released in August 2002. The last line-up of the Mothers of Invention can be heard, with two exceptions at their concert on January 20, 1976 in Sydney, Australia. Less than two months later, Zappa finally dissolved the Mothers. The audio DVD Halloween , released in February 2003, contains excerpts from the Zappa band's Halloween shows from October 27th to 31st, 1978 at the “Palladium” in New York City. The DVD also features two videos (“Suicide Chump” and “Dancin 'Fool”) and a radio interview that Zappa gave to WPIX on the occasion of the shows. At the end of May 2004, the first of three albums in the "Joe's" series was released: Joe's Corsage . It contains recordings of the original Mothers line-up from 1965, the time shortly before the release of the Mothers debut album Freak Out! . Contributors include Ray Collins , Henry Vestine (he later went to Canned Heat ), Roy Estrada, and Jimmy Carl Black . The second part of the series came out in October 2004 Joe's Domage . The album contains - in poor sound quality - a recording of a typical Zappa band rehearsal from 1972 with musicians who were later to be heard on the albums The Grand Wazoo and Waka / Jawaka . The trilogy concluded the album Joe's XMASage , released in December 2005, with recordings from 1962 to 1965, the time of Zappa's beginnings in the music business in Cucamonga . After the Zappa Family Trust had released further records on the Zappa Records label, the album Buffalo was released on April 1, 2007 . The double CD contains excerpts from the concert that the 1980s Zappa band gave in October 1980 in the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York. In the same year, Wazoo, an album of the last appearance of the so-called Wazoo Band , a 20-member group that Zappa had put together for an eight-concert tour from musicians who had played on the albums Waka / Jawaka or The Grand Wazoo , was released . With Joe's Menage a recording of a concert in Williamsburg on November 1, 1975 was released in September 2008, followed two years later by Philly '76 , a recording of October 29, 1976 from Philadelphia.

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  1. ↑ Gail Zappa on www.zappa.com ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of April 2007) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zappa.com
  2. ↑ Article by Germaine Greer (April 2007)
  3. ↑ Article by Jim Bessman ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (April 2007)
  4. ↑ Article by Pamela Des Barres ( Memento of November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Status: November 2007)
  5. ↑ Halloween album information on globalia.net (as of April 2007)
  6. ↑ Wazoo. Information is not Knowledge , accessed May 18, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Buffalo. Information is not Knowledge , accessed May 18, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Barry Miles : Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 264-268 .