Waka/Jawaka
| Waka/Jawaka | ||||
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| Released | July 5, 1972 | |||
| Recorded | April 17–21 and May 5, 1972 | |||
| Studio | Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, California | |||
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| Length | 36:08 | |||
| Label | Bizarre/Reprise | |||
| Producer | Frank Zappa | |||
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Sample of the album's title track
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Waka/Jawaka (also known as Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats) is the fourth solo album (and fifteenth album counting the work with 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."