Label: Apple Records (UK & Europe), CDP 7 98706 2
Style: Indian Classical, Avantgarde, Experimental
Country: Liverpool, England (25 February 1943 - 29 November 2001)
Time: 45:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 271 Mb
George Harrison first met Joe Massot while the Beatles were filming Help! in early 1965. He agreed to write the musical score for Massot's film Wonderwall in October 1967, after the Bee Gees had become unavailable. It was Harrison's first formal music project outside the Beatles and coincided with his continued immersion in Indian classical music. Since 1966, this association with India had given Harrison a distinct musical identity beside the band's primary songwriters, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. While he had minimal interest in the Beatles' main projects during 1967 - the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and their television film Magical Mystery Tour - Harrison led the group in terms of their shared philosophical direction, as his bandmates followed him in embracing Transcendental Meditation under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Harrison viewed Wonderwall at Twickenham Film Studios with Massot and was intrigued by the storyline. The film's premise concerns a lonely professor (played by Irish actor Jack MacGowran) and his increasing obsession with his female neighbour, a fashion model named Penny Lane (played by Jane Birkin), whom he spies on via a hole in the wall separating their apartments. In the context of 1960s Swinging London, the contrast between their existences symbolised the division between traditional norms and the younger generation's progressive thinking. In his soundtrack for the film, Harrison conveyed this contrast further in terms of the duality between psychedelia and his Hindu-aligned spiritual convictions. According to author Simon Leng: "The lack of dialogue left acres of room for music to speak, and a soupcon of cosmic apotheosis also helped ... Wonderwall touched on themes that would come to preoccupy George Harrison - critically, the objectification of celebrities and the shallowness of fame."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_Music)
01. Microbes (03:44)
02. Red Alady Too (01:57)
03. Tabla and Pakavaj (01:05)
04. In the Park (04:10)
05. Drilling a Home (03:07)
06. Guru Vandana (01:07)
07. Greasy Legs (01:27)
08. Ski-Ing (01:50)
09. Gat Kirwani (01:15)
10. Dream Scene (05:30)
11. Party Seacombe (04:35)
12. Love Scene (04:17)
13. Crying (01:19)
14. Cowboy Music (01:30)
15. Fantasy Sequins (01:51)
16. On the Bed (02:23)
17. Glass Box (01:07)
18. Wonderwall to Be Here (01:27)
19. Singing Om (01:54)
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