Two different archival recording sessions, though both are similar musically. The namesake album is from 1972 and is about 26 minutes in length - more like an EP. The 1973 recordings, later reissued as simply Pazop, is about 35 minutes. The music rounds up the usual Continental European suspects in the Zappa/Canterbury genre like Cos and Moving Gelatine Plates, and on the 1973 album, I was reminded of a band not normally associated with this kind of music: Kornelyans - Not an Ordinary Life.
Ownership: CD: 1996 Musea (France). Jewel case. Usual great 90s Musea archival issue with complete historical liner notes.
I bought the CD online when it first came out. 20 years later, the convenient and essential CD has fallen out of print, and you can now buy the album as two separate LPs - each a brick - without any extras and likely sourced from the CD anyway. Why not release as a double LP? What, and miss out on getting $40 retail + exorbitant shipping costs (360 grams!) for each? How the mighty have fallen. Not for me.
4/22/20 (review / new entry)
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