Frank Zappa
Lumpy Gravy

Frank Vincent Zappa is a genius, and that's well-known. So if you feel like broadening your horizons, leaving behind any preconceived notions—musical or otherwise—this is the album for you. In "Lumpy Gravy", our guy dissects all of his ingenuity: mixing in an irreverent collage of dodecaphony, jazz, rock, and spoken parts.

The music is performed by the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by some members of the Mothers Of Invention, while the spoken parts are recordings of the voices of Roy Estrada, Motorhead, and Louis Cuneo, with their heads inside a piano, creating a strange resonance effect. The whole is blended by Zappa with a proverbial sense of orchestration. An album that would likely have delighted Dadaists and Futurists. But enough talk, I just want to tell you: sit back in your armchair, put the album in your player, and let yourself be carried away on a journey through previously unexplored sounds and the theater of the absurd for a U-N-I-Q-U-E experience!