The läther album was originally conceived as a 4 lp box set of 8 sides 27 songs for release in 1977 but warner brothers refused to release 2 hours worth of music.
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When the material was first released on cd while zappa was alive he chose to issue the 4 individual album configuration.
Frank zappa once said in an interview that mastering engineer spencer chrislu was a vinyl guy at home.
It remains debated whether zappa had conceived the material as a four lp set from the beginning or only when approaching phonogram.
View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1996 vinyl release of läther on discogs.
Jazz rock classical style.
Some material on läther overlaps with albums like zappa in new york studio tan sleep dirt or orchestral favorites which sort of came out instead of läther but other material is unique and some of the overlapping versions are slightly different.
When the material was first released on cd while zappa was alive he chose to issue the 4 individual album configuration.
The cd version of zappa in new york is completely re assembled and remixed and bears no relation to läther and the vinyl version of zappa in new york other than the fact that it contains completely different mixes of some of the same performances.
In the liner notes to the 1996 release however gail zappa states that as originally conceived by frank läther was always a 4 record box set.
The official version of läther was released posthumously in september 1996.
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First planned in 1977 but not released until 1996.
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Jazz rock avantgarde prog rock post modern.
Zappa re edited and reconfigured some of the läther material into the individual albums zappa in new york studio tan sleep dirt and orchestral favorites.
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It just sounds like the original vinyl albums to my ear.
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After releasing zappa in new york warner refused to pay him or to release the rest of the albums.
The official story given by gail zappa when the cd version of läther was released in 1996 seems to contradict much of the evidence from zappa interviews and magazine articles from the 1976 1979 period.