Waka/Jawaka

Waka/Jawaka
original issue cover
Studio album by
Frank Zappa
ReleasedJuly 5, 1972
RecordedApril 17–21 and May 5, 1972
StudioParamount Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length36:08
LabelBizarre/Reprise
ProducerFrank Zappa
Frank Zappa chronology
Just Another Band from L.A.
(1972) 		Waka/Jawaka
(1972) 		The Grand Wazoo
(1972)
Frank Zappa (solo) chronology
Chunga's Revenge
(1970) 		Waka/Jawaka
(1972) 		Apostrophe (')
(1974)
Audio sample
Sample of the album's title track
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Christgau's Record GuideB[4]
Kerrang![5]
Rolling Stone(favorable)[6]

Waka/Jawaka (also known as Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats) is the fourth solo album, fifteenth album counting the work of his band the Mothers of Invention, by Frank Zappa, released in July 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo (November 1972), and as the front cover indicates, a sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats. According to Zappa, the title "is something that showed up on a ouija board at one time."[7]

  1. ^ Couture, François. "Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b Mars-Jones, Adam (2015). Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father. Penguin Books Limited. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-84614-876-7.
  3. ^ Couture, F. (2011). "Waka/Jawaka - Frank Zappa | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: Z". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  5. ^ Henderson, Paul (28 January 1989). "Slippery Customers". Kerrang!. No. 223. p. 18. ISSN 0262-6624.
  6. ^ Houghton, Rob (2011). "Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  7. ^ Frank Zappa interview, November, 1972, on WGOE-FM Richmond VA interview by Jerry Williams from the Frank Zappa GSW Project Vol. 6 1971-72, disk 2 track 22