Bon autant le dire tout de suite cet album est un véritable bijou monumentalement chef d'oeuvriesque. 

Si si! On arrête là?

À l'origine, l'album devait être un film qui, faute de moyens, ne verra le jour (???... enfin pour ceux qui réussiront à dénicher la vidéo) qu'en 1989 et qui, très sincèrement, est carrément oubliable, oublié, ouste. 

Reste donc ce disque, première compilation officielle (puisque regroupant des morceaux enregistrés entre 67 et 68) et premiers pas réussis (après le semi-echec de "Lumpy Gravy") dans la composition orchestrale. Ici, la place est faite aux sonorités et aux compositions tendant volontiers vers le jazz contemporain, voir le jazz rock comme dans l'immense (en talent et en durée) "King Kong". 

Le ton général de l'album est plutôt acoustique et on s'étonne de l'incroyable homogénéité d'un produit compilé par Warner. 

L'édition CD contient quelques bonus tracks qui sont en fait des extraits de dialogues du film. 

Branlette cosmique, ces titres ne servent à rien, ne s'écoutent pas, ne se fument pas, on n'en retiendra que ce leitmotiv aussi drôle que foncièrement obscure : 'I'm using the chicken to measure it'. 

Au fait, l'album devait normalement s'appeler 'No commercial potential'.

Mothers Of Invention, The - Uncle Meat

Label: Reprise Records Catalog#: 2MS 2024 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Country: US Released: 1967-1968  Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Musique Concrète, Avantgarde, Fusion, Doo Wop, Experimental, Parody

Tracklist

A1   Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme 1:54 A2   The Voice Of Cheese 0:27 A3   Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution 5:56 A4   Zolar Czakl 0:57 A5   Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague 5:51 A6   The Legend Of The Golden Arches 1:24 A7   Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall In London) (Berry) 2:28 A8   The Dog Breath Variations 1:36 B1   Sleeping In A Jar 0:49 B2   Our Bizarre Relationship 1:05 B3   The Uncle Meat Variations 4:40 B4   Electric Aunt Jemima 1:53 B5   Prelude To King Kong 3:24 B6   God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go) (Berlin) 1:22 B7   A Pound For A Brown On The Bus 1:29 B8   Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen) 5:08 C1   Mr. Green Genes 3:10 C2   We Can Shoot You 1:48 C3   "If We'd All Been Living In California . . . " 1:29 C4   The Air 2:57 C5   Project X 4:47 C6   Cruising For Burgers 2:19 D1   King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio) 0:53 D2   King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild) 1:15 D3   King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It) 1:44 D4   King Kong (The Gardner Varieties) 6:17 D5   King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks) 0:29 D6   King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Ramifications) 7:25

Credits

Bass [Electric] - Roy Estrada 
Clarinet [Piccolo], Flute, Clarinet [Bass] , Saxophone [Soprano, Alto, Tenor], Bassoon - Bunk Gardner 
Drums - Billy Mundi , Jimmy Carl Black 
Drums, Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Percussion [Wood Blocks, Bells, Small Chimes] - Art Tripp 
Engineer - Jerry Hansen , Jerry Hansen , Richard Kunc , Richard Kunc 
Guitar, Vocals, Percussion - Frank Zappa 
Organ [Electric], Piano, Keyboards [Harpsichord, Celeste], Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone [Alto, Baritone] - Ian Underwood 
Piano [Electric] - Don Preston 
Producer - Frank Zappa 
Saxophone [Tenor], Percussion [Tambourine] - Motorhead Sherwood 
Vocals - Ray Collins

Notes

comes in a gatefold sleeve. 
Recorded at Apostolic Studios, NYC 
October 1967-February 1968 
Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound, LA 
March-April, 1968 
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Original liner notes read... 
THE MOTHERS at the time of this recording were: 
FRANK ZAPPA - guitar, low grade vocals, percussion 
RAY COLLINS - swell vocals 
JIMMY CARL BLACK - drums, droll humor, poverty 
ROY ESTRADA - electric bass, chesseburgers, Pachuco falsetto 
DON (Dom De Wild) PRESTON - electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice 
BILLY (The Oozer) MUNDI - drums on some pieces before he quit to join RHINOCEROS 
BUNK (Sweetpants) GARDNER - piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all of these electric and/or non-electric depending) 
IAN UNDERWOOD - electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal 
ARTIE (With the Green Mustache) TRIPP - drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific enquiries 
EUCLID JAMES (Motorhead/Motorishi) SHERWOOD - pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies 

The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 5 months from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track through a procedure known as over-dubbing. The weird middle section of DOG BREATH(after the line , "Ready to attack") has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through an electric device made by Maestro with a setting labeled Oboe D'Amore and sped up a minor third with a V.S.O. (variable speed oscillator). Other perculiar sounds were made on a Kalamazoo electric organ. The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of Pultec Filters, two Lan Equalizers, and three Melchor Compressors built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York. The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr Lou Lindauer's imagination & workmanship. The material was recorded on a prototype Scully 12 track machine at 30 ips. The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc or Dynamite Dick, as he is known to the trade. Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend Mike in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us. 

Special thanks to: 
Ruth Komanoff who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks, and 
Nelcy Walker the soprano voice with Ray & Roy on Dog Breath & The Uncle Meat Variations 
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Uncredited: 
Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese 

Bizarre reprise records: 

n°2MS2024. Label bleu, US: 1967-1968

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