The Mothers Of Invention's double album Uncle Meat was released in 1969. Although the doowop rarity (1968) was released in between, it is the worthy successor to Frank Zappa's first milestone (1968). Uncle Meat picks up the thread and can be heard as a wild collage or suite of complex freak music, electronic sounds and voices. Zappa showed himself to be a master of the studio and cut, pasted, edited
… and manipulated countless recordings (recorded live and in studios) into a raw, lively and experimental whole. The highlight is the steamy jazz rock from the King Kong suite, which originally covered all of side four. An accompanying film project was less successful and only appeared in 1987 to be quickly forgotten again. Uncle Meat is the most complete album by the original group The Mothers Of Invention, as it existed until 1970. (MR)more
