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.
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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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Frank zappa once said in an interview that mastering engineer spencer chrislu was a vinyl guy at home.
It just sounds like the original vinyl albums to my ear.
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The ryko läther i have not heard the 2012 remaster has a nice vinyl quality to its sonic presentation don t ask me for details please which is beyond me.
First planned in 1977 but not released until 1996.
The album was sort of released but spread over 4 albums namely studio tan sleep dirt orchestral favourites and live in new york with other songs appearing in.
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.
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.
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.
The official version of läther was released posthumously in september 1996.
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.
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It remains debated whether zappa had conceived the material as a four lp set from the beginning or only when approaching phonogram.
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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.