Civilization Phaze III est le premier album posthume de Frank Zappa , paru en décembre 1994 . L'écriture et l'enregistrement de l'album s'étend d'une période allant de 1967 pour les voix, à 1993 pour les dernières pièces musicales enregistrées sur le Synclavier . Certains titres ont été enregistrés avec l'Ensemble Modern .
Disque 1 :
This is Phaze III — 48 s
Put A Motor In Yourself — 5 min 14 s
Oh-Umm — 50 s
They Made Me Eat It — 1 min 48 s
Reagan At Bitburg — 5 min 39 s
A Very Nice Body — 1 min 00 s
Navanax — 1 min 40 s
How The Pigs' Music Works — 1 min 49 s
Xmas Values — 5 min 31 s
Dark Water! — 23 s
Amnerika — 3 min 04 s
Have You Ever Heard Their Band? — 38 s
Religious Superstition — 43 s
Saliva Can Only Take So Much — 28 s
Buffalo Voice — 5 min 12 s
Someplace Else Right Now — 33 s
Get A Life — 2 min 21 s
A Kayak (On Snow) — 29 s
N-Lite — 18 min 01 s
Disque 2 :
I Wish Moterhead Would Come Back — 14 s
Secular Humanism — 2 min 41 s
Attack! Attack! Attack! — 1 min 25 s
I Was In A Drum — 3 min 38 s
A Different Octave — 58 s
This Ain't CNN — 3 min 21 s
The Pigs' Music — 1 min 18 s
A Pig With Wings — 2 min 52 s
This Is All Wrong — 1 min 43 s
Hot & Putrid — 29 s
Flowing Inside-Out — 46 s
I Had A Dream About That — 28 s
Gross Man — 2 min 55 s
A Tunnel Into Muck — 21 s
Why Not? — 2 min 19 s
Put A Little Motor In 'Em — 51 s
You're Just Insultin' Me, Aren't You! — 2 min 13 s
Cold Light Generation — 44 s
Dio Fa — 8 min 19 s
That Would Be The End Of That — 36 s
Beat The Reaper — 15 min 23 s
Waffenspiel — 4 min 05 s
1967 VOICES:
Spider Barbour
All-Night John (Kilgore)
Frank Zappa
Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood [a.k.a. Larry Fanoga]
Roy Estrada
Louis "The Turkey" Cuneo
Monica
Gilly Townley
Unknown Girl #1 (Beckie)
Unknown Girl #2 (Maxine)
1991 VOICES:
Moon Unit Zappa
Michael Rappaport
Ali N. Askin
Catherine Milliken
Walt Fowler
Todd Yvega
Michael Svoboda
Michael Gross
William Formann
Uwe Dierksen
Stefan Dohr
Daryl Smith
Franck Ollu
Hermann Kretzschmar
Dweezil Zappa
Members of the ENSEMBLE MODERN:
Dietmar Wiesner : Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute
Catherine Milliken : Oboe, English Horn, Baritone Oboe, Didjeridoo
Roland Diry : Clarinet
Wolfgang Stryi : Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet
Veit Scholz : Bassoon, Contrabassoon
William Formann : Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Michael Gross : Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Franck Ollu : French Horn
Stefan Dohr : French Horn
Uwe Dierksen : Trombone, Pygmy Trombone
Michael Svoboda : Bass Trombone, Alp Horn, Didjeridoo, Conch
Daryl Smith : Tuba
Peter Rundel : Violin 1
Mathias Tacke : Violin 2
Hilary Sturt : Viola
Friedemann Dähn : Cello
Thomas Fichter : Contrabass, Electric Bass
Detlef Tewes : Mandolin
Jürgen Ruck : Guitar, Banjo
Ueli Wiget : Harp
Hermann Kretzschmar : Piano, Celeste
Rumi Ogawa-Helferich : Cymbalom, Percussion
Rainer Römer : Musical Saw, Percussion
Andreas Böttger : Marimba, Percussion
Production : Frank Zappa
Ingénierie : Dick Kunc, David Dondorf, Todd Yvega, Marque Coy, Spencer Chrislu
Direction musicale : Frank Zappa
Conception pochette : Uri Balashov