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George Harrison Band: George Harrison
Title: George Harrison
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Release Date: 2004-02-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Comes To Everyone 2: Not Guilty 3: Here Comes The Moon 4: Soft Hearted Hana 5: Blow Away 6: Faster 7: Dark Sweet Lady 8: Your Love Is Forever 9: Soft Touch 10: If You Believe 11: Here Comes The Moon (Demo Version) (Bonus track)

Shimmeringly romantic, magical and tropical
Every song flows perfectly into the next and takes the listener on a journey of warmth, magic and romance. One of the most romantic albums ever recorded. The songs Dark Sweet Lady, Your Love Is Forever, Here Comes The Moon and Love Comes To Everyone are especially poignant, but the entire album is magical and filled with romance. A sense of wistfulness and contentment permeates the album, and it is unabashedly sentimental and beautiful. There's also a tropical element in some of the songs and a refreshing sense of gentleness, lightness of spirit and warmth in the vocals, production, lyrics and instrumentation.


George Harrison
They tell of changes from day to night, summer to winter, storm to calm. The songs in "George Harrison" are poems of transformation. Describing what is impermanent, they make visible the timeless love that surrounds us.

Harrison recorded this album during the summer and fall of 1978 in his home studio at Friar Park, England. He had composed several of the songs in Hawaii, and one ("Soft Touch") in the Virgin Islands. His art, like that of the painter Gauguin before him, blossomed in the tropics, nurtured by the lush, bright atmosphere he found there.

Meditations on nature form the core of the work. There is "Here Comes the Moon," expressing awe as a full moon appears on a Hawaiian shore while the sun is setting; "Blow Away," where redemptive sunlight follows an English rainstorm; and "Your Love is Forever," which begins:

Sublime is the summertime warm and lazy. . .
These are perfect days like Heaven's about here,
But unlike summer came and went-
Your love is forever.

Other songs depict extremes of consciousness. In "Soft-Hearted Hana," Harrison eats "magic mushrooms" on the island of Maui, and grows as tall as the Haleakala volcano. He falls in love with Hana, who "lives beneath the crater in the meadow," meeting her "among the fruit and grain. . . after heavy rain has fallen. " "Faster" was inspired by Harrison's friends in Formula One racing. It is a tribute to all those who have "moved into the space/ That the special people share/ Right on the edge of do or die/ Where there is nothing left to spare. "

"Brown-Eyed Lady" is a love song for Harrison's wife, Olivia. In the album notes (taken from his autobiography "I Me Mine"), he said the song "sounds to me a bit Hawaiian/Spanish. " To my ears, it also resembles Brazilian bossa nova. The lilting verse of "Soft Touch" may be for Harrison's new son, Dhani: "You're a soft touch baby/ Like a snow flake falling/ My whole heart is melting/ As a warm sun rises. "

Dating from 1968, "Not Guilty" alludes to the discord within The Beatles at that time. The bitter edge of its lyrics contrasts with the album's prevailing, upbeat mood. It ends with melancholy, wordless singing.

The beginning song, "Love Comes to Everyone," and finale, "If You Believe," are morale builders meant to encourage us in our present situations, whatever they are. "Love Comes to Everyone" states the imperative of life:

Go do it,
Got to go through the door,
There's no easy way out at all. . .
Still it only takes time
'Til love comes to everyone.

The music of "George Harrison" is gorgeous. Its lovely and complex harmonies unfold in an instrumental mix that is both clear and rich. Harrison said that the open tuning on his slide guitar forced him to make up new chords, rather than use conventional ones. On "Blow Away" and "Your Love is Forever," he plays this guitar with the expressiveness of a human voice.

I especially enjoy the music of "Here Comes the Moon. " Its sprinkles of harp tones sound like stars twinkling. Sustained vocal and keyboard chords, supported by Willie Weeks' bass, convey the majesty and peace of the cosmos. As Harrison sings "here comes the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon," a sudden shift to quick guitar triplets emphasizes the drama of the moon's emergence. The CD's two versions of this song complement each other. The full instrumental recording paints an image of the spectacle unfolding in the sky, while the bonus, solo acoustic track expresses Harrison's feelings as he watches.

"George Harrison" stands alongside "All Things Must Pass" (1970) and "Brainwashed" (2002) as one of Harrison's transcendent solo albums. Radiant in spirit, it reveals the essence of the artist, and shows why he is irreplaceable.





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George Harrison
Great CD. . had the vinyl but haven't listened to in years, wanted to update to CD. The songs sound great and George playing and singing are some of his best. AAA+++.


MELLO
A very fine lp or cd Just kick back and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. This cd is the mello side of george, Blow away will make you feel good and faster will speed it up a little.


The album that made me re-discover George
I'll make it short and sweet. . . . .
I lost interest in George after "Living In The Material World" in 1973. Six years later, this was the album that made me re-discover him. There's some georgous melodies on this album. .


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