Civilization, Phaze III

Civilization Phaze III is a double album by Frank Zappa. It was the last album he completed before his death in 1993, and was released posthumously in December 1994 by The Zappa Family Trust on Barking Pumpkin Records. Categorized by Zappa as an "opera-pantomime", the project began as a vocal recording experiment in 1967, which Zappa describes in the liner notes (written in 1993): These ramblings (many of which were first excerpted on Zappa's 1968 album Lumpy Gravy) were transformed into a vague plot