The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' title='The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' />Wonderwall Music 2. Remastered  George HarrisonThe album was a film soundtrack but as a standalone vision it embraces a glorious multiverse of sonorous vignettes like nothing Ive ever heard. It speaks of a fearless heart. Nitin Sawney. Released in November 1. George Harrisons Wonderwall Music was the first solo album released by a member of The Beatles and the first LP to be released by Apple Records. The soundtrack music for director Joe Massots debut feature length film, Wonderwall, the predominantly instrumental album is an intricate, vibrant tapestry of Western rock music and compositions in an Indian classical style. In 1. George recalled, I decided to do it as a mini anthology of Indian music, because I wanted to help turn the public on to Indian music. Three bonus tracks have been added to the remastered album  In The First Place by Liverpool group The Remo Four, who played the rock elements of the recording sessions, a previously unreleased alternate take of The Inner Light, and the previously unreleased Almost Shankara, a raga that was not used in the film or for the soundtrack LP. The booklet also includes a new essay of appreciation by the acclaimed musician, producer and composer Nitin Sawney and newly written historical notes by Kevin Howlett. Original Release Date November 1, 1. Musicians Ashish Kahn, sarod. COBS012710117.jpg' alt='The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' title='The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' />Mahapurush Misra, tabla pakavaj. Sharad Hanuman Jadev, shanghais. Shambu Das, sitar. Shankar Ghosh, sitar. Chandra Shakher, sur bahar. Shiv Kumar Shermar, santoor. The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' title='The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' />S. R. Kenkare, flute. Vinaik Vora, thar shanhai. Rij Ram Desad, harmonium tabla tarang. John Barham, piano flugel horn. Tommy Reilly, harmonica. Colin Manley, guitar steel guitar. Edward Antony Ashton, jangle piano organ. Philip Rogers, bass. Roy Dyke, drums. Special thanks to friends loops and all the staff at EMI Bombay. Produced by George Harrison for Apple Records. Studio EMI Bombay and EMI Abbey Road. Recording dates January 1. ArtworkPhoto credits Photo by Astrid Kemp Original sleeve designs by Bob Gill, John Kelly, Alan Aldridge from a photograph by Camera Press CD re issue package by Phil Smee at Waldos Design. WONDERWALL MUSICby Matt Hurwitz. Just as The Beatles were putting the finishing touches on their film, Magical Mystery Tour, for broadcast at the end of 1. George Harrison was beginning his own new project creating the music score for Wonderwall, a movie by indie director and friend, Joe Massot. Wonderwall was a kind of 6. George said. Joe Massot came to me and asked if I would do the music to his film. The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' title='The Pop Piano Book By Mark Harrison' />Jango is about making online music social, fun and simple. Free personal radio that learns from your taste and connects you to others who like what you like. The latest news articles from Billboard Magazine, including reviews, business, pop, hiphop, rock, dance, country and more. I told him, I dont do music to films, and he said, Well, whatever you give me, Ill have it. The film was about a lonely professor Jack Mac. Gowran in a cheap apartment who spends his time watching through a hole in the wall the goings on in the unit next door, inhabited by a young photographer and his model girlfriend Jane Birkin, with whom he develops an obsession. Plentiful with the psychedelia of its day, there was ample opportunity for George to fill it with whatever musical whimsy he chose. He was free to do absolutely whatever he liked, says friend and arranger John Barham. What George liked, as fans had been discovering, was Indian music. Indian music was big at the time in London, recalls drummer Roy Dyke, whose band, The Remo Four, provided the backing for the western themed pieces on the soundtrack. Everybody was wearing Indian clothes. Windows 7 Activation Hack Registry. And George was really into Indian sounds and wanted to turn a lot of people onto it. Adds George, I thought, Ill give them an Indian music anthology, and, who knows, maybe a few hippies will get turned on to Indian music. As any film composer would do, the first step George took was what would today be called a spotting session. Visiting Massot and editor Rusty Coppelman at Twickenham Studios, he watched a rough cut of the film several times, taking detailed notes about the story and scenes and deciding the type of music appropriate for each. He eventually compiled a list of about an hours worth of music cues, with precise timings required for each. George then spent much of November and early December recording rough outlines of musical ideas and themes, recording a few titles whose names would change, India and Swordfencing, at Abbey Road on November 2. For those keeping their Beatle calendar, Hello Goodbye was released the following day. Wonderwall Tape Box. While in prep, George made a few important contacts. Among the first was John Barham, who met George in 1. Ravi Shankar. Ravi took me down to Georges house in Esher, where he had asked Ravi to play a recital for a small gathering, Barham recalls. A few months before recording began on Wonderwall, he asked me if I wanted to do some arranging, and so of course I agreed, beginning a relationship that would span years. The first true sessions for the filmalbum took place at De Lane Lea Studios in London on December 2. Those recordings featured just two players sarod master Aashish Khan and his longtime tabla player, Mahapurush Misra, who were experiencing their first winter together on tour in England. George had met Khan the year before in Varanasi, India, shortly after George began studying with Ravi, and the two became good friends. I was in England with my father, the late sarod player Ali Akbhar Khan, and George came to my hotel and asked if I would be interested in playing for his movie, Wonderwall. So the next day he took me to the studio, and I recorded with Mahapurush. The sarod is somewhat like a sitar, though without frets, held in the lap while playing. Its 2. 5 strings are plucked, like a lute, with a pick made of coconut shell, while the player uses both a well tuned ear and a fingernail on the other hand, used like a slide, to find notes. Khan and Misra played together on two tracks, Misra playing alone on Tabla and Pakavaj, the latter a double ended drum laid sideways and played with both hands. For Love Scene, where Prof. Collins watches as the girl and her boyfriend. Barham recalls, George said, Oh, we need romantic music here. I knew a raga which had been created by Aashishs grandfather, Allauddin Khan, called Mauj Khamaj, which I always thought was very romantic. So I suggested that to Aashish. Khan recorded several passes, and then George asked him to do something commonplace in his own pop recording, though unusual for an Indian musician double track himself. He said, Why dont you play something along with it the musician remembers. At first I was very confused, but then I started listening and found some spaces in between and started filling them, and he liked it very much. The other piece, Gat Kirwani, used over a modeling sequence, is based on another raag, Raga Kirwani, made popular around that time by Allaudin Khan and Shankar, which George requested Khan play. The following day, George did the first of a number of sessions with a group he had known from Liverpool, The Remo Four Tony Ashton keyboards, Colin Manley guitar, Phil Rogers bass and Roy Dyke drums. The quartet, recording at Abbey Road, and played on nearly all of the western music tracks, typically by themselves, with only occasional overdubs added by George or Barham. The group also NEMS artists, like The Beatles had just returned from a stay at the Star Club in Hamburg, the legendary Beatles haunt, and were looking for their next gig, so George asked their help. Our latest live music and party schedule. Click here to subscribe to our events mailing list. Kings Place is a hub for music, art, dialogue and food in Londons Kings Cross. 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