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Waka/Jawaka (also known as Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats) is the fourth solo album by Frank Zappa, released in July 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo (November 1972), and as the front cover indicates, a sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats. According to Zappa, the title "is something that showed up on a ouija board at one time."[7]

Waka/Jawaka
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 5, 1972
RecordedApril 17–21 and May, 1972
StudioParamount Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length36:08
LabelBizarre/Reprise
ProducerFrank Zappa
Frank Zappa chronology
Just Another Band from L.A.
(1972)
Waka/Jawaka
(1972)
The Grand Wazoo
(1972)
Frank Zappa (solo) chronology
Chunga's Revenge
(1970)
Waka/Jawaka
(1972)
Apostrophe (')
(1974)
Audio sample
Sample of the album's title track
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Christgau's Record GuideB[4]
Kerrang![5]
Rolling Stone(favorable)[6]

Songs


"Big Swifty" is a jazz-fusion tune, similar to many of Zappa's pieces from the jazz period of his compositional timeline. It features many horns to achieve a thick brassy sound as well as room for improvisation and use of multiple time signatures. The tune initially alternates between 7
8
and 3
4
time signatures, soon settling on a 4
4
swing feel for several extended solos. Known recorded live versions expanded rhythmic diversification to 11
8
and rubato parts (e.g. live in Texas, 1973).[8]

The track "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" is a strange tale of hallucinations sung by Sal Marquez and Janet Ferguson (the "tough-minded" groupie in 200 Motels). Jeff Simmons' Hawaiian guitar sets up a dream-like, smooth quality, but with the words "but you should be diggin' it while it's happening cause it just might be a one-shot deal", though played in real time rather than achieved with a splice, it again sounds as if the music has started to run backwards.[9]


Critical reception


Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "With Sal Marquez playing 'many trumpets' all over 'Big Swifty,' there are times you could drop the needle and think you were listening to recent Miles Davis. That's certainly what Zappa's been doing. But where Davis is occasionally too loose, Zappa's always too tight—he seems to perceive only what is weird and alienating in his influences, never what is humane. Also, Sal Marquez doesn't play trumpet(s) as good as Miles."[4]


Reissues


It was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Rykodisc in 1986 (with much digital reverb added and missing the back cover artwork) and in 1995 (restoring the rear cover, but with identical sound). In 2012, Universal Music released a CD containing a remastered version of the original vinyl mix.


Track listing


All songs written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Big Swifty"17:22
Side two
No.TitleLength
2."Your Mouth"3:12
3."It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal"4:16
4."Waka/Jawaka"11:18

Personnel



Musicians on the album



Production



Charts


Album - Billboard (United States)

Year Chart Position
1972 Billboard 200 152

References


  1. Couture, François. "Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  2. Mars-Jones, Adam (2015). Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father. Penguin Books Limited. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-84614-876-7.
  3. Couture, F. (2011). "Waka/Jawaka - Frank Zappa | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  4. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: Z". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 23, 2019 via robertchristgau.com.
  5. Henderson, Paul (28 January 1989). "Slippery Customers". Kerrang!. No. 223. p. 18. ISSN 0262-6624.
  6. Houghton, Rob (2011). "Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  7. Frank Zappa interview, November, 1972, on WGOE-FM Richmond VA interview by Jerry Williams from the Frank Zappa GSW Project Vol. 6 1971-72, disk 2 track 22
  8. Couture, François. "Big Swifty - Frank Zappa | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  9. Page 199; Frank Zappa: "The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play" by Ben Watson, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1995



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Waka/Jawaka es un álbum del músico y compositor Frank Zappa, lanzado al mercado en 1972. El álbum es el precursor de influencia jazzística de The Grand Wazoo.

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Waka/Jawaka (также известен под названием Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats) — четвёртый сольный альбом Фрэнка Заппы, выпущенный в июле 1972 года. Выдержанный в джазовом стиле, альбом являлся предшественником The Grand Wazoo (выпущенного в ноябре того же 1972 года) и концептуальным продолжением альбома 1969 года — Hot Rats[6].



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