Quaudiophiliac(styledQuAUDIOPHILIAc) is a compilation album featuring music byFrank Zappa,released inDVD-Audioformat by Barking Pumpkin Records in 2004. It compiles recordings he made while experimenting withquadraphonic,or four-channel, sound in the 1970s. Zappa prepared quadraphonic mixes of a number of his 1970s albums, with bothOver-Nite Sensation(1973) andApostrophe (')(1974) being released indiscrete quadraphonicon Zappa'sDiscReet Recordslabel.[2][3]
Produced by Zappa, and completed by his son,Dweezil Zappa,Quaudiophiliacincludes several previously unreleased works in this format. The recordings date from as early as 1970, with "Chunga Basement", a version of the title track fromChunga's Revenge(1970). Also included are three tracks from the 1975 Royce Hall, UCLA concerts with the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra which would becomeOrchestral Favorites(1979); plus a quad remix of a segment of Zappa's 1968musique concrètemasterpieceLumpy Gravy.
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