Zappa Records and Universal Music are reissuing Hot Rats on LP. Frank Zappa's second solo album and the first following the dissolution of the Mothers of Invention (first period), Hot Rats, released in October 1969, is essentially composed of long instrumental tracks with psychedelic-jazz influences (with the notable exception of "Willie the Pimp" featuring the raw voice of Captain Beefheart) and therefore sounds very different from previous Zappaesque adventures, which combined biting humor, collage, and concrete music. Multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood is the only Mothers member present on this recording; he was also its main architect alongside Zappa. Other musicians include Max Bennett and Shuggie Otis on bass, drummers John Guerin, Paul Humphrey, and Ron Selico, and Don 'Sugarcane' Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty on electric violin. In Zappa's words, this album is 'a movie for your ears.'
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