In 1993 famed musician and composer Frank Zappa recorded what would be his last works; a collaboration with the group Ensemble Modern in which 7 works by Edgard Varèse, one of Frank's biggest influences, would be professionally recorded to give the late French composer the recognition he deserved.
In July 1993 these tracks were laid down and likely worked on throughout the rest of the year, until Frank was unable to work on music anymore due to his illness. He died in December of that year of prostate cancer.
A couple of Frank's other works from this time frame, including Civilization Phaze III and Dance Me This, have since seen official release, but these recordings, tentatively named "The Rage and The Fury" remain unreleased. Numerous press statements by the Zappa Family Trust have given plans to release them and even planned release dates on numerous occasions, but nothing has come of them after almost 30 years.
In 1996 however, 6 of the 7 recordings were released as samples, between 15 and 30 seconds in length, on the official Zappa website. It was included as .wav, .aiff and .au formats, of which the .wav files are the highest quality. However, due to this being the very early internet, the samples were only presented in 8-bit 11k mono, so there's some heavy bitcrushing in places. Still, this remains the only way to listen to Frank's last recordings, at least until the ZFT finally gets off their backsides and releases them fully in high quality.

Timecodes:
HYPERPRISM: 00:00
OCTANDRE: 00:37
INTEGRALES: 01:04
IONISATION: 01:34
DESERTS: 01:56
DENSITY 21.5: 02:16

A track entitled POÈME ÉLECTRONIQUE was also listed on the site, but no samples were included for it.
You can view the archived page and the original samples here: [ Ссылка ]

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