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Record Details

Artist: Frank Zappa
Title: Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
Format: 12"
Label: Barking Pumpkin Records
Cat No: FW 38066
Released: Jun 1982
Country:
Genres: AvantgardeArt RockHard Rock
Condition Excellent
Status Have
Added To List 11th December 2014
Disc 1 | 12"
Excellent
Barking Pumpkin Records 
A Matrix:
FW- -38066-A TH Dinkum ^ 7 T1  
B Matrix:
FW- -38066-B TH 1 Dinkum T1  

Additional Information

Comments Paper black & white sleeve w/printed lyrics & letter inner sleeve.

Side A consists of studio recordings;
Side B consists of live recordings.

Album shows whose shapes also suggest the letters 'ZA' (and 'P', sideways), as in 'Zappa'.

"Drowning Witch" is one of the most complex instrumentals Zappa ever wrote, featuring musical quotations from The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky and the Dragnet TV theme.
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