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George Harrison - Electronic Sound Audio CD

A fair review of the George Harrison "Electronic Sound" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all George Harrison reviews here, or go back to the George Harrison tabs.

George Harrison Band: George Harrison
Title: Electronic Sound
Rating:
Release Date: 1996-12-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Under the Mersey Wall 2: No Time or Space

Electronic-Machine Music


Released on May 9, 1969, on the Zapple label - with the cover art by Harrison - the two numbers, Under the Mersey Wall and No Time or Space, are pop art at its most impressionistic, with an assist by Bernie Krause on the latter. With nearly 44 minutes of ambient music, George Harrison explores the emerging potential of the Moog synthesizer in producing atmospheric sounds.

Harrison forged an incomplete path with the synthesizer as a solo instrument - abandoning the release of such experiments - but it was sonic satisfaction, nonetheless.


NEAT stuff.
This is not a top ten lp or something you'll fined on the charts, It's just george playing at home on his new toy.


for conosseurs only
Great service and quality product but the recording itself is obviously George having a lot of fun at the listener's expense, though I knew that going in - avid Beatle collector that I am.


An experimental piece, nothing more
The Apple's sub-label ("Zapple" records) was to be a home for recordings never intended to be commercially accessible. This LP-now-CD was intended to be an experimental piece by fledgling electronic player Harrison, and nothing more. "Electronic Sound" was one of the two releases, the other was the Lennon/Ono LP "Life With the Lions: Unfinished Music No. 2").

There's nothing to dance to, nothing to walk around humming later. Let's face it, if anything this is music to break a sub-lease with. However, it IS George, and it IS part of the Beatles' history, and as such is notable.

Mr. Bourland said in an earlier review here that "synth-pioneer Bernie Krause has claimed in numerous publications that it was he, not George, who created this track. Indeed, Krause is credited as an assistant on this track but it is still a mystery as to who is actually creating the noises on this track. " It IS a mystery, but let me add this:

Krause was HEAVILY involved with the creation of the Moog sounds on the album. In fact, it was Krause who TAUGHT Harrison to program the clumsy beast to begin with.

If you look closely at the LP cover you can still see Bernie Krause's name in blue sprayed lettering below Harrison's, but before release it was sprayed over with the silver color.

Just to give credit where credit's due. . .
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Love it
But its just two long crazy synthesizer songs, and I just think its great that someone so good at a guitar would make an album so different. I have all Georges work on cd and I think this has to be one of the best, I love it I know its not like any of his other stuff not even Wonderwall Music.


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