George Harrison - Wonderwall Music (Apple 1968) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

This album represents George Harrison’s first venture into solo work in conjunction with movies and is, like the film for which it is the score, a creature of its time: late sixties, full of colour, whim, daring and fantasy.

George remembers, “Joe Massot, the director, asked me would I do the music for his film and I said, ‘I don’t know how to do music for films,’ and he said, ‘Anything you do I will have in the film,’ and those were the terms on which I agreed to do the work.”

“I decided to do it as a mini-anthology of Indian music because I wanted to help turn the public on to Indian music”. Joe Massot showed him a rough uncut version of the film at Twickenham Film Studios and on that George composed an overall soundtrack.

After visiting Bombay for the Indian sequences he remarked, “It was fantastic really. The studio is on top of the offices but there’s no sound-proofing. So if you listen closely to some of the Indian tracks on the LP you can hear taxis going by.” “Every time the offices knocked off at 5.30 we had to stop recording because you could just hear everybody stomping down the steps. They only had a big EMI mono machine. I mixed everything as we did it there, and that was nice enough because you get spoiled working on eight and sixteen tracks”.

Back at EMI in Abbey Road, George recorded the British contingent, including Eric Clapton, Tony Ashton, and others in The Remo Four, plus Ringo Starr, John Barham and Tommy Reilly. Derek Taylor

Track listing:

01. Microbes
02. Red Lady Too
03. Tabla And Pakavaj
04. In The Park
05. Drilling A Home
06. Guru Vandana
07. Greasy Legs
08. Ski-ing
09. Gat Kirwani
10. Dream Scene
11. Party Seacombe
12. Love Scene
13. Crying
14. Cowboy Music
15. Fantasy Sequins
16. On The Bed
17. Glass Box
18. Wonderwall To Be Here
19. Singing Om

Personnel:

Ashish Kahn, sarod
Mahapurush Misra, tabla & pakavaj
Sharad & Hanuman Jadev, shanhais
Shambu-Das, sitar
Chandra Shakher, sur-bahar
Shiv Kumar Shermar, santoor
S.R. Kenkare, flute
Vinalk Vora, thar-shanhai
Rij Ram Desad, harmonium & tabla-tarang
John Barham, piano & flugel horn
Tommy Reilly, harmonica
Colin Manley, guitar & steel guitar
Tony Ashton, piano, organ & mellotron
Philip Rogers, bass
Roy Dyke, drums
Eric Clapton, guitar
Ringo Starr, drums
Peter Tork, banjo
Written, arranged and produced by George Harrison
Recorded December 1967, January 1968