The Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa) - Absolutely Free (1967)

Year: May 26, 1967 (CD 1995)
Label: Rykodisc Records (US), RCD 10502
Style: Avant-Pop, Avant-Garde, Experimental
Country: Pomona, California, U.S.
Time: 43:42
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 273 Mb

Much like their 1966 debut Freak Out!, the album is a display of complex musical composition with political and social satire, whose blend of jazz, classical, avant-garde and rock idioms within multi-sectional, suite-like compositions is seen as an important and influential precursor to progressive rock. The band had been augmented since Freak Out! by the addition of woodwinds player Bunk Gardner, keyboardist Don Preston, rhythm guitarist Jim Fielder, and drummer Billy Mundi; Fielder quit the group before the album was released, and his name was removed from the album credits.
Freak Out! cost Verve $20,000 to make, more than double the cost of a typical album at the time. When it struggled to sell, the record company only allowed a budget of $11,000 for the follow up, which was recorded on four-track over just four days from November 15–18, 1966 at TTG studios in Los Angeles, with additional mixing and editing at MGM in New York City a week later. Tom Wilson again sat in the producer’s chair, although it is generally agreed that he took a hands-off approach and let Zappa have full creative control. Unlike Freak Out!, which used extensive orchestration, the budget this time only allowed for orchestral additions to "Brown Shoes Don’t Make It", with the band playing virtually live in the studio for most tracks. Since many of the songs were complex multi-sectional pieces, the group would do up to 30 takes of each specific section of a track, which were then strung together in editing. According to Zappa, the group had "one day with 15 minutes per tune to do all the vocals on that album. That's right. It's called 'sing or get off the pot’."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_Free)

01. Plastic People (03:42)
02. The Duke Of Prunes (02:13)
03. Amnesia Vivace (01:01)
04. The Duke Regains His Chops (01:52)
05. Call Any Vegetable (02:15)
06. Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin (07:00)
07. Soft-Sell Conclusion (01:40)
08. Big Leg Emma (02:31)
09. Why Don'tcha Do Me Right? (02:37)
10. America Drinks (01:53)
11. Status Back Baby (02:54)
12. Uncle Bernie's Farm (02:10)
13. Son Of Suzy Creamcheese (01:34)
14. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (07:30)
15. America Drinks & Goes Home (02:45)

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