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Over the last several years, the Zappa Family Trust and UMe have lovingly been restoring Frank Zappa’s iconic catalog together by reissuing his classic albums on CD, pressing long-out-of-print records back on vinyl and digitizing the prolific composer’s vast repertoire. Next up in the ongoing vinyl initiative is Zappa’s enigmatic Burnt Weeny Sandwich which will receive a 180-gram audiophile repressing on black vinyl on June 22 via Zappa Records/UMe. Supervised by the ZFT, the record was specially mastered for this release by Bernie Grundman with all analog production and cut directly from the 1970 ¼” stereo safety master tape in 2018. Unavailable on vinyl for more than three decades, Zappa last released this on vinyl in 1986 in the rare Old Masters Box Two. The LP, which will be pressed at Pallas in Germany, will feature the album’s distinctive original cover art by frequent Zappa collaborator Cal Schenkel and include the original album’s black and white poster, which has never been reproduced in any of the album’s CD editions.
With Routes, Senegalese kora master Diali Cissokho and band Kaira Ba trace the musical steps between the American South and the west of Africa. In the process, the North Carolina-based collective forge a delightfully earnest and ambitious project.
Recorded primarily in Senegal — in Cissokho’s hometown of M’bour — and transported back to the States to layer over some local talent in the mix, the 11-track album largely delivers on its expansive, well-travelled motif. Cissokho and producer-slash-bassist Jonathan Henderson have set out an grand task that succeeds for the most part with strong percussive, kora, string and jazz elements.
Lead track “Alla L’a Ke” wears its multi-layered mindset proudly, frenetically leaning on a kora-fuelled foundation with strings and…
…an Afro-pop mentality mixed in. “Salsa Xalel” rides on its Latin flavour by way of American gospel and West Africa sounds — including balafon and tama drums — expertly weaved in. The melodies of “Ma Chérie” and “Baayi Leen” unfold like cool summer nights; the rock treatment of “Story Song” feels a touch too earnest, but numbers like “Night in M’Bour” and “Xarit” offer fanciful atmospheres that reflect the level of craft involves.
Routes goes places; it’s a journey that takes its time to get there, but is well worth the trip
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