Label: Apple Records (France), 2 C 066-90499
Style: Indian Classical, Raga Rock, Experimental, World
Country: Liverpool, England (25 February 1943 - 29 November 2001)
Time: 45:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 288 Mb
Charts: US #49, CAN #30, GER #22.
Wonderwall
Music is the debut solo album by the English musician George Harrison
and the soundtrack to the 1968 film Wonderwall, directed by Joe Massot.
Released in November 1968, it was the first solo album by a member of
the Beatles, and the first album issued on the band's Apple record
label. The songs are all instrumental pieces, except for occasional
non-English language vocals, and mostly comprise short musical
vignettes. Following his Indian-styled compositions for the Beatles
since 1966, he used the film score to further promote Indian classical
music by introducing rock audiences to instruments that were relatively
little-known in the West – including shehnai, sarod, tar shehnai,
tanpura and santoor. The Indian pieces are contrasted by Western musical
selections, in the psychedelic rock, experimental, country and ragtime
styles.
Harrison recorded the album between November 1967 and
February 1968, with sessions taking place in London and Bombay. One of
his collaborators on the project was classical pianist and orchestral
arranger John Barham, while other contributors include Indian classical
musicians Aashish Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Shankar Ghosh and Mahapurush
Misra. The Western music features contributions from Tony Ashton and his
band the Remo Four, as well as guest appearances by Eric Clapton and
Ringo Starr. Harrison recorded many other pieces that appeared in
Wonderwall but not on the soundtrack album, and the Beatles' 1968 B-side
"The Inner Light" also originated from his time in Bombay. Although the
Wonderwall project marked the end of Harrison's direct involvement with
Indian music as a musician and songwriter, it inspired his later
collaborations with Ravi Shankar, including the 1974 Music Festival from
India.
The album cover consists of a painting by American artist Bob
Gill in which, as in Massot's film, two contrasting worlds are
separated by a wall, with only a small gap allowing visual access
between them. Harrison omitted his name from the list of performing
musicians, leading to an assumption that he had merely produced and
arranged the music. The 2014 reissue of Wonderwall Music recognises his
contributions on keyboards and guitar. The album was first remastered
for CD release in 1992, for which former Apple executive Derek Taylor
supplied a liner-note essay.
While viewed as a curiosity by some rock
music critics, Wonderwall Music is recognised for its inventiveness in
fusing Western and Eastern sounds, and as being a precursor to the 1980s
world music trend. The album's title inspired that of Oasis' 1995 hit
song "Wonderwall". Harrison's full soundtrack for the film was made
available on DVD in early 2014, as part of the two-disc Wonderwall
Collector's Edition. In September that year, the album was reissued in
remastered form as part of Harrison's Apple Years 1968–75 box set, with
the addition of three bonus tracks.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_Music)
01. A1 Microbes (03:44)
02. A2 Red Lady Too (01:58)
03. A3 Tabla And Pakavaj (01:05)
04. A4 In The Park (04:09)
05. A5 Drilling A Home (03:09)
06. A6 Guru Vandana (01:07)
07. A7 Greasy Legs (01:28)
08. A8 Ski-ing (01:51)
09. A9 Gat Kirwani (01:16)
10. A10 Dream Scene (05:29)
11. B1 Party Seacombe (04:36)
12. B2 Love Scene (04:17)
13. B3 Crying (01:16)
14. B4 Cowboy Music (01:30)
15. B5 Fantasy Sequins (01:50)
16. B6 On The Bed (02:23)
17. B7 Glass Box (01:07)
18. B8 Wonderwall To Be Here (01:29)
19. B9 Singing Om (01:55)
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