In celebration of fifty years of Frank Zappa’s monumental 1975 album One Measurement Suits All, a collection of newly expanded fiftieth anniversary editions led by a five-disc (4CD/1Blu-ray Audio) Tremendous Deluxe Version might be launched by way of Zappa Data/UMe.
The lavish Tremendous Deluxe Version field comes full with a 36-page booklet and unseen images from the archives of Sam Emerson, along with liner notes and new historic essays by famous music journalist David Fricke, longtime Zappa/Moms bandmember Ruth Underwood, and, as at all times, The Vaultmeister, Joe Travers.
One Measurement Suits All can even be launched on vinyl with two particular pressings: a 180-gram 2LP “Black Glitter” anniversary version that mixes a brand-new analog reduce of the album with a bonus LP of highlights from the field set plus the fiftieth anniversary booklet, and a restricted version 1LP on 180-gram “Blue Galaxy” vinyl housed in a jacket printed on silver foil and together with a lithograph of a never-before-seen photograph contact sheet from one among Zappa’s historic shoots with Sam Emerson.
The Tremendous Deluxe Version and 2LP might be launched on September 26 however followers who pre-order any of the One Measurement All: fiftieth Anniversary Version choices will obtain the album on Friday, August 1.
A brand new merch assortment celebrating 50 years of One Measurement Suits All has additionally simply been launched, together with t-shirts, posters, branded One Measurement Suits All socks, and extra.
Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the brand new, expanded assortment, One Measurement Suits All: fiftieth Anniversary Version, sports activities the 2012 remaster of the unique album by Bob Ludwig, together with scores of further session outtakes from The Vault, alternate takes, and 2024 mixes remixed and restored by Craig Parker Adams, all remastered in 2025 by John Polito at Audio Mechanics.
Additionally included within the expanded assortment is a reside live performance recording captured at Sports Palace Ahoy in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, on September 28, 1974, plus a pair of bonus live performance tracks from Gothenburg Live performance Corridor in Gothenburg, Sweden, extracted from a gig only a few days earlier on September 25, 1974.
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