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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!
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Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy is an experimental album blending jazz, rock, dodecaphony, and surreal spoken parts. Performed by a unique orchestra and members of the Mothers of Invention, it offers a rich and unusual sonic experience. The album embraces avant-garde and absurdist elements, showcasing Zappa's genius and orchestration skills. It's a perfect choice for listeners ready to explore new auditory landscapes.Tracklist
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (1940–1993) was an American composer, guitarist, bandleader and producer known for genre-defying albums, abrasive satire and orchestral experiments. He released extensive studio and live material, explored electronic composition (Synclavier) and advanced both rock-fusion and contemporary classical idioms.54 Reviews
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By supersoul
A work like that cannot be dismissed with a few words, do you think it took me just four days to compose it?
Only then demand that the damn listener know how to pay attention, to focus on the SOUND, to then see THE LIGHT, THE PERFECTION, THE BALANCE.
