First album of the day, and it's turned my home office (ie. my kitchen table) into the Bell Labs, with the sounds of electronic birdsong, white noise and space-age whooshes drifting in from the living room. I watched Four Flies on Grey Velvet last week, and positioned prominently in the background of several scenes is George Harrison's 3rd album All Things Must Pass. I made a mental note to grab Harrison's album off the shelf, but this morning, in the mood for adventure, I pulled out instead, Harrison's 1969 album Electronic Sound. Putting aside the thorny question of the exact authorship of the pieces on the album, which Beatles writer Kevin Howlett addresses in the liner notes of the excellent 2014 reissue, the music here is utterly fantastic, and in places bridges the gap between the Barron’s alien soundscapes of Forbidden Planet and the free-form atonalities of early Throbbing Gristle. It’s a shame the album still remains unloved and neglected to this day.
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