Frank Zappa (1969) Hot Rats (2012 Remaster) FLAC

This 2012 remaster is incredible. For the first time on CD, they've reverted back to the original vinyl mix. The sound is startlingly different, and in many people's opinion, far better. If you've never heard Hot Rats on vinyl, you've never heard this mix. I personally love this mix far more than the old CDs.

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Hot Rats is the second solo album by Frank Zappa. It was released in October 1969. Five of the six songs are instrumental ("Willie the Pimp" features a short vocal by Captain Beefheart). It was Zappa's first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention. In his original sleeve notes Zappa described the album as "a movie for your ears."

Because Hot Rats focuses on instrumental jazz-like compositions with extensive soloing, the music sounds very different from earlier Zappa albums, which featured satirical vocal performances with extensive use of musique concrète and editing. Multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood is the only member of the Mothers to appear on the album and was the primary musical collaborator. Other featured musicians were Max Bennett and Shuggie Otis on bass, drummers John Guerin, Paul Humphrey & Ron Selico, and electric violinists Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty.

No. Title Length
1. "Peaches en Regalia" 3:38
2. "Willie the Pimp" 9:25
3. "Son of Mr. Green Genes" 8:58
4. "Little Umbrellas" 3:09
5. "The Gumbo Variations" 12:55
6. "It Must Be a Camel" 5:15
Total length:
43:20