- rock, jazz, jazz rock, jazz fusion
- 37 min
- 4 tracks
- Reprise Records
Waka/Jawaka is the fourth solo album by Frank Zappa, released in July 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo, 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."
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Cool, character-led, spare and open-ended.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB
- Kerrang!2.5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone(favorable)
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Tracks
- 1Big Swifty17:46
- 2Your Mouth3:11
- 3It Just Might Be a One‐shot Deal4:17
- 4Waka/Jawaka11:18
4 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Frank Zappa
- Label
- Reprise Records
- Released
- 1972
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- DE
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