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Today at Eric Doeringer's ER Flea Market, we are excited to bring you…
Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy
Record VG+ / Sleeve VG
Verve Records 1968
“Francis Vincent Zappa conducts Lumpy Gravy a curiously inconsistent piece which started out to be a BALLET but probably didn’t make it. Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with maybe even some of the mothers of invention.”
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, activist and filmmaker. His work was characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers.
As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues and doo-wop music.[6] He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical.
Lumpy Gravy is an album of orchestral, electric and concrete sound written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. Zappa conducted the orchestra but did not perform on the album. It is Zappa’s third album overall: his previous releases had been under the name of his group, the Mothers of Invention.
The album was commissioned and briefly released, on August 7, 1967, by Capitol Records in the 4-track Stereo-Pak format only, and then withdrawn due to a lawsuit from MGM Records. MGM claimed that the album violated Zappa's contract with their subsidiary, Verve Records. In 1968 it was reedited and reissued by MGM's Verve Records on May 13, 1968. The re-edited version consists of two musique concrète pieces that combine elements from the original orchestral performance with elements of surf music and spoken word.
Tracklist
Side A Lumpy Gravy-Part I 15:45
Side B Lumpy Gravy-Part II 15:56
This is the actual LP Eric photographed for his book “Records” (2011), a remake of Ed Ruscha’s “Records” (1971).
Each album contains an original Ex Libris Eric Doeringer stamp, signifying the album is deaccessioned from Eric's personal library established during his High School years.
All items sold here at Eric Doeringer’s ER Flea Market come with a 11" x 8.5" image of the item, autographed by Eric Doeringer. Each print is printed on epson archival paper. Perfect for framing.
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