Chunga's Revenge Vinyl
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Chunga's Revenge catches Frank Zappa between bands in 1970, and he sounds thrilled to be off the leash. A scrappy, brilliant grab bag of guitar workouts, jazz detours and cheeky rock songs.
Released that year as his third solo album, it was pieced together from sessions stretching back to the Hot Rats period, recorded in studios across the US and in London. It also marks the first appearance of former Turtles singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, better known as Flo & Eddie, on a Zappa record, and their vocal tracks served as a preview of the 200 Motels project that followed.
Side one is a showcase for the guitar. "Transylvania Boogie" is a wah-soaked, Eastern-tinged jam over Aynsley Dunbar's shimmering cymbals, and "Twenty Small Cigars", left over from the Hot Rats sessions, is a lovely, lounge-lit jazz interlude. Flip it for the pop-shaped mischief of "Sharleena" and the bluesy, groupie-themed vocal numbers, plus "The Clap", a percussion piece Zappa multitracked entirely on his own.
Ian Underwood and George Duke add keyboards and horns throughout, keeping the arrangements razor sharp even when the lyrics are anything but.
It remains one of the friendliest doors into Zappa's catalogue, as funny as it is virtuosic.
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