Zappa Records Releases Frank Zappa’s Album Understanding America

The Zappa Family Trust announced the release of a new 2-CD set titled Understanding America. This is one of only three compilation albums produced and titled by Frank Zappa himself. The project includes a quarter of titles available in current release, other prior versions and many items including the track “Porn Wars Deluxe,” a 25-minute work, unique to this release.

“This work is about love, peace, justice and the American way,” says Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (Frank Zappa’s Laurel Canyon studio). “It’s about compassion and responsibility. It’s about ethics and honor. It’s about time and it is about money. And bogus pomp and circumstance. Predictions and politics. It is the low-down on high altitudes.

Check out the menu for yourself and you will see that the main ingredients, each in their own persuasion and marinating well into the next century, have been carefully skewered and roasted to the peak of perfection by the Master chef, author of one of the all-time great cook books, Understanding America.”