💿 CD: The Perfect Stranger
📅 Date: 1984
🌍 Country: UK
🏷 Label: Rykodisc – RCD 10542
🎛 Remastered - 1995
Features: Jewel case remastered, 8-page foldout leaflet.
One of the interesting classical releases in the Zappa catalogue. The Perfect Stranger brings together Frank Zappa’s orchestral compositions performed by Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain.
These performances are mixed with a few Synclavier pieces, which give the album a cold, futuristic atmosphere.
Zappa focuses here on composition, structure, and modern classical experimentation. It’s a challenging but rewarding listen, and one release that really shows how seriously Zappa took contemporary classical music.
Highlights for me are “Dupree’s Paradise”, “Outside Now Again”, and the title track “The Perfect Stranger”
Definitely an essential CD for anyone interested in the orchestral and experimental side of the Zappa universe.
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