Editing Lumpy Gravy (section)

{{For|the recalled all-orchestral album|Lumpy Gravy (1967 album)}}

{{short description|1968 album by Frank Zappa}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = Lumpy Gravy
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Frank Zappa|Francis Vincent Zappa]] and the [[Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra|Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus]]
| cover        = Verve Lumpy Gravy.jpg
| released     = May 13, 1968
| recorded     = February 13 – October 1967
| venue        = 
| studio       = 
| genre        = {{Flatlist|
*[[Sound collage]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miles |first1=Barry |author1-link=Barry Miles |title=Zappa: A Biography |date=2004 |publisher=Grove Press |location=New York City, New York, US |isbn=9780802117830 |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBYIAQAAMAAJ&q=lumpy+gravy+%22sound+collage%22 |access-date=October 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hardy |first1=Phil |last2=Laing |first2=Phil |title=The Da Capo Companion to 20th-century Popular Music |date=1995 |publisher=Da Capo Press |location=Boston, Massachusetts, US |isbn=9780306806407 |page=1,035 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCoaAQAAMAAJ&q=lumpy+gravy+%22sound+collage%22 |access-date=October 12, 2022 |chapter=Frank Zappa}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rees |first1=Dafydd |title=Rock Movers & Shakers |date=1991 |publisher=ABC-Clio |location=Santa Barbara, California, US |isbn=0874366615 |page=583 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5oYAAAAIAAJ&q=lumpy+gravy+%22sound+collage%22 |access-date=October 12, 2022}}</ref>
*[[Contemporary classical music|orchestral]]<ref name="Pouncey">{{cite journal |last1=Pouncey |first1=Edwin |author1-link= Edwin Pouncey |title=Undercurrents #7: Fables of the Deconstruction |journal=The Wire |date=July 1999 |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/undercurrents-7-fables-of-the-deconstruction |access-date=October 13, 2022}}</ref>
*[[musique concrète]]<ref name="Wharmby">{{cite web |last1=Wharmby |first1=George |title=An Epic Review of Frank Zappa's first 12 albums OR Universal, what's got into ya? |url=https://louderthanwar.com/an-epic-review-frank-zappas-first-12-albums-universal-whats-got-ya/ |website=Louder Than War |access-date=October 12, 2022 |date=October 4, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Wolk">{{cite journal |last1=Wolk |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Wolk |title=Flashback |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=May 22, 1995 |issue=428 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/CMJ/IDX/CMJ-New-Music-Report-1995-05-22-IDX-18.pdf#search=%22musique%20concrete%22 |page=18 |access-date=October 12, 2022}}</ref>
*[[experimental rock]]
}}
| length       = 31:45
| label        = [[Verve Records|Verve]]
| producer     = [[Nick Venet]]
| chronology   = [[Frank Zappa]]
| prev_title   = [[We're Only in It for the Money]]
| prev_year    = 1968
| next_title   = [[Cruising with Ruben & the Jets]]
| next_year    = 1968
}}

'''''Lumpy Gravy''''' is a 1968 [[solo album]] by [[Frank Zappa]] (credited as '''Francis Vincent Zappa'''), written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the [[Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra|Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus]]. Zappa [[conducting|conducted]] the orchestra but did not perform on the album. It is his fourth album overall: his previous releases had been under the name of his group, [[the Mothers of Invention]].

[[Lumpy Gravy (1967 album)|An entirely orchestral version of 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 released by Verve on May 13, 1968. The new album consisted of two [[musique concrète]] pieces that combined elements from the original orchestral performance with elements of [[surf music]] and [[spoken word]]. It was praised for its music and editing.

Produced simultaneously with ''[[We're Only in It for the Money]]'', Zappa saw ''Lumpy Gravy'' as the second part of a conceptual continuity that later included his final album, ''[[Civilization Phaze III]]''.