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The Perfect Stranger is a 1984 album featuring the music of Frank Zappa, conducted in part by Pierre Boulez. It was originally issued on vinyl in 1984 and on CD in 1985 by Angel, and then in remixed and resequenced form on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1992. Later reissues (of the same master) were by Rykodisc in 1995 and Zappa/Universal in 2012.
Boulez conducted three tracks ("The Perfect Stranger", "Naval Aviation in Art?" and "Dupree's Paradise"), recorded at IRCAM, Paris on January 10 and January 11, 1984, and performed by Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain. The title track was also commissioned by Boulez, and contains references to Zappa's 1971 film, 200 Motels. The remaining four tracks are credited to 'The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort'—in fact, Zappa's Synclavier. "Outside Now Again" is a Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa's guitar solo in the song "Outside Now" from the 1979 Joe's Garage album.
The track "Jonestown" is a reference to the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana, where cult leader Jim Jones drove his followers to collective suicide.




Track listing


All compositions by Frank Zappa.

Different track timings are probably due to mislisting. There are no reports of tracks being longer or shorter on the original vinyl.




Personnel


Per the album liner notes:

The Ensemble InterContemporain (tracks 1, 2, 4)
Pierre Boulez – President, conductor
Péter Eötvös – Musical Director
Lawrence Beauregard, Sophie Cherrier – flutes
Laszlo Hadady, Didier Pateau – oboes
Alain Camien, Paul Meyer – clarinets
Guy Arnaud – bass clarinet
Jean-Marie Lamothe – bassoon
Jacques Delepancque, Jens McManama – horns
Antoine Curé, Jean-Jacques Gaudon – trumpets
Jérôme Naulais, Benny Sluchin – trombones
Gérard Buquet – tuba
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Alain Neveux – pianos
Marie-Claire Jamet – harp
Charles-André Unale, Jacques Ghestem, Maryvonne Le Dizès – violins
Garth Knox, Jean Sulem – violas
Chrichan Larsson, Pierre Strauch – cellos
Frédéric Stochl – double bass
Vincent Bauer, Michel Cerutti, Daniel Ciampolini – percussions
The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort (tracks 3, 5, 6, 7)
Frank Zappa – Synclavier
David Ocker – computer programmer
Steve DiFuria – special software
Production
Frank Zappa – producer, liner notes
Didier Arditi – recording engineer (tracks 1, 2, 4)
Bob Stone – remix engineer (original release)
Spence Chrislu – 1992 remix and EQ engineer
John Matousek – mastering
Don Hunstein – photography
Donald Roller Wilson – cover painting




References






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Album information
Release details

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