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Frank Zappa\u2019s archival label Vaulternative Records was launched in 2002 by the late artist\u2019s family to present a variety of fascinating odds and ends from his voluminous archive.\u00a0 Now, after a near-decade-long hiatus, Vaulternative is returning from Zappa Records and UMe to continue preserving the experimental side of the Zappa oeuvre.\u00a0 The newly-refreshed Vaulternative label launches on May 15 with Zappa \u201966: Vol. 1 \u2013 Live at TTG Studios on one CD or two 180-gram LPs, or via digital download\/streaming (including high-resolution audio) exclusively from Zappa.com<\/a>, uDiscover Music<\/a>, and Sound of Vinyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sixteen of the seventeen tracks on Zappa \u201966 are previously unreleased in any format.\u00a0 The release documents the young musician at an October 1966 session at the Hollywood studio just months after the release of The Mothers of Invention\u2019s debut album, Freak Out!, on Verve Records.\u00a0 The new release has been produced, restored, and assembled by \u201cVaultmeister\u201d Joe Travers and mastered by John Polito from the original 1\/4-inch master tapes recorded to Zappa\u2019s reel-to-reel system.\u00a0 Radio interview segments from 1966 have also been included.<\/p>\n Zappa \u201966 chronicles, in audio format, a television production conceived as Sex in the \u201860s and ultimately aired as Sex in Today\u2019s World.\u00a0 The program\u2019s producers invited Zappa and The Mothers to stage an exploratory \u201cfreak out\u201d with music, dance, and what would today be considered performance artists against a backdrop of special lighting and smoke machines.\u00a0 TTG Studios was the same venue where Zappa, The Mothers, and producer Tom Wilson had recorded Freak Out! not long before.\u00a0 The fluid set was unpredictable even by the young Zappa\u2019s standards, and he was sure to capture the audio on his reel-to-reel tape machine.\u00a0 It\u2019s the only known recording of the band to feature guitarist Del Casher and also the first recorded appearances of percussionist Billy Mundi and keyboardist Don Preston with The Mothers.\u00a0 Ray Collins (vocals\/tambourine), Roy Estrada (bass), and Jimmy Carl Black (drums\/percussion) round out the lineup.<\/p>\n While the sound will be recognizable to fans of Freak Out!, the concert wasn\u2019t nearly as structured as the album, veering from structured sections to improvisations and experiments ranging from R&B to the avant garde.\u00a0 Zappa would, of course, eventually develop the musical vocabulary being explored here into his famously diverse discography.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to announce the relaunch of Vaulternative Records, which creates a direct line from The Vault to fans,\u201d comments Joe Travers in the press release. \u201cFrank\u2019s AAAFNRAA philosophy \u2014 Anything Anytime Anyplace for No Reason At All \u2014 really applies here, because the material can take so many forms. It might be an interview, a raw live recording, something Frank worked on that was never released, or a fully realized concert. The goal is to uncover and share the things we know fans will appreciate most. We\u2019re excited to bring Vaulternative back as another way to open up The Vault and deliver more of that content to the people who want it.\u201d<\/p>\n Multiple source tapes were transferred for this release from which Travers curated the most complete chronicle of the performance yet.\u00a0 He writes in the liner notes, \u201cI decided to take advantage of the 60th anniversary and compile the best edit I could to represent what happened that day in early October 1966 when The Mothers were hired to supposedly show the world what they were responsible for.\u00a0 The Mothers were unlike any other, and Frank Zappa, 25 years old and still within his first year of being a signed artist, was in the middle of making a large impact.\u201d<\/p>\n All formats of Zappa \u201866 will include liner notes by Travers, as well as photos by Earl Leaf, film stills by Barry Feinstein, poster art from the Freak Out! era, and miscellaneous images from The Vault.\u00a0 This title, too, inaugurates the celebration of 60 years of Freak Out!\u2019s original release.<\/p>\n Look for Zappa \u201966 from Vaulternative Records on May 15 from Zappa\/UMe. The evocative instrumental \u201cMove On\u201d is streaming now at YouTube<\/a> and elsewhere, and the title can be ordered from Universal\u2019s online storefronts below.<\/p>\n Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Zappa \u201966: Vol. 1 \u2013 Live at TTG Studios (Vaulternative\/Zappa\/UMe, 2026) (Zappa Online Store<\/a> \/ uDiscoverMusic.com<\/a> \/ Sound of Vinyl Link TBD)<\/p>\n CD:<\/p>\n \u201cHello There\u201d 2LP:<\/p>\n Side 1<\/p>\n \u201cHello There\u201d Side 2<\/p>\n FZ & The United Mutations Side 3<\/p>\n I Could Be A Slave\/Story Untold Side 4<\/p>\n Khaki Sack- Prototype Part 2
\nFreak Chouflee\u2019
\nMove On
\nThe United Mutations
\n\u201cTommy Come Back!\u201d
\nFZ Directs The Freaks
\nPomp and Circumstance Sequence
\nLegalize Abortion
\nTwistin\u2019 Again
\nThe Electric Banana
\nI Could Be A Slave Story Untold
\n\u201cWe Keep Changing Personnel Though\u201d
\nA2 Jam
\nKhaki Sack
\nDuke Of Prunes (Edited)
\nVictory Through Vegetables
\n\u201cWe\u2019re Havin\u2019 A Freak Out!\u201d<\/p>\n
\nFreak Chouflee\u2019
\nMove On<\/p>\n
\n\u201cTommy, Come Back!\u201d
\nFZ Directs The Freaks
\nPomp And Circumstance Sequence
\nLegalize Abortion
\nTwistin\u2019 Again
\nThe Electric Banana<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe Keep Changing Personnel Though\u201d
\nA2 Jam
\nKhaki Sack- Prototype Part 1<\/p>\n
\nDuke Of Prunes (Edited)
\nVictory Through Vegetables
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