Label: Apple Records (UK), 7243 8 55239 2 2
Style: Avantgarde, Electronic, Experimental
Country: Liverpool, England (25 February 1943 - 29 November 2001)
Time: 43:50
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 221 Mb
Although
a guitarist and, from 1966, an aspiring sitarist under Indian musician
Ravi Shankar, George Harrison turned to keyboard instruments as a tool
for songwriting in 1967. These instruments included Hammond organ on
some of his songs with the Beatles, and Mellotron on several of the
Western selections on his debut solo album, the Wonderwall Music film
soundtrack. Described by producer George Martin as the most dedicated of
the Beatles in finding and creating new sounds for the band's studio
recordings, Harrison became intrigued by the potential of the Moog
synthesizer while in Los Angeles in late 1968. He was introduced to the
instrument by Bernie Krause, who, along with his Beaver & Krause
partner Paul Beaver, was the Moog company's sales representative for the
US West Coast.
An off-shoot of the Beatles' Apple record label,
Zapple Records was intended as an outlet for avant-garde musical works
and spoken-word albums. The music on Electronic Sound, consisting of two
extended instrumental pieces – "Under the Mersey Wall" and "No Time or
Space" – was performed on a Moog 3 modular system. Harrison bought the
system from the Moog company through Krause, and later had it set up at
EMI Studios in London for the Beatles to use on their recordings.
In
author Alan Clayson's view, the album was Harrison's "gesture of
artistic solidarity" towards John Lennon and Yoko Ono, whose
experimental collaborations, having first appeared on the Beatles' 1968
track "Revolution 9", made up Zapple's other inaugural album, Life with
the Lions. In a 1987 interview, Harrison said that Electronic Sound,
like the Lennon–Ono album, was an example of Zapple's ethos of
"let[ting] serendipity take hold" rather than a formal creative work.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Sound)
01. Under The Mersey Wall (18:43)
02. No Time Or Space (25:06)
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