Frank Zappa - Funky Nothingness Series (Episode 3: Product Reveal with Joe Travers)

In this episode, Joe Travers takes you through the Funky Nothingness 2LP packaging. Get your copy today: Special thank you to Michael Mesker. As Art Director on Zappa projects for almost two decades, he is responsible for bringing the team’s packaging concept and design to life. He is also responsible for all project image archival scanning and restoration, and working with Zappa’s contemporaneous photoshoot and proof sheet selections to determine a visual style that fits in the Zappa continuum. The Funky Nothingness album is available as a double LP on both 180-gram black vinyl and limited-edition clear violet 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Optimal, with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. The vinyl will consist of Zappa’s vintage mixes of the tracks. The limited edition color pressing, which will include a collectible guitar pick, is available exclusively at , uDiscover Music and Sound of Vinyl. It’s also available in a few other formats, including a three-disc expanded deluxe edition that presents the 11-track album on disc 1 along with two discs of outtakes, alternate edits, unedited masters of songs from the era (“Transylvania Boogie,” “The Clap” and “Chunga’s Revenge” among them), plus several epic improvisations, and other “bonus nothingness.” An accompanying 28-page booklet includes photos from the recording sessions by photographer John Williams plus illuminating liner notes and an individual track-by-track by Travers. Disc 1 features Zappa’s vintage mixes alongside several modern mixes by Craig Parker Adams who also mixed the bonus material. All audio was mastered by John Polito at Audio Mechanics. In all, the 25-track collection includes 23 unreleased tracks totaling nearly three and a half hours of never-before-heard music. The expanded edition of Funky Nothingness will also be available digitally for streaming and download, in both standard and hi-res audio (96kHz/24-bit). Subscribe to Frank Zappa’s YouTube: Subscribe to Frank Zappa’s email list: Shop the official Frank Zappa store: Follow Frank Zappa: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @zappa Twitter: Website: Stream Frank Zappa: #Zappa #FunkyNothingness #Vinyl