Beatles George Harrison Zapple Records Electronic Sound Original 1968 UK MINT-
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Beatles George Harrison Zapple Records Electronic Sound Original 1968 UK MINT-
Originally conceived as an outlet for avant-garde recordings, the Apple spin-off label Zapple folded after a scant output of just two albums: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Unfinished Music Number 2: Life With The Lions” and George Harrison’s “Electronic Sound.” But during its brief existence as a way-out boutique subsidiary of Apple, Zapple provided an outlet for Harrison with his aforementioned second solo album, which in retrospect is quite probably the most anarchic and maligned Beatle solo album of all time outside of Lennon’s work with Yoko Ono.
The title of the album is completely upfront and unpretentious regarding its content, echoed by its playful cover as within it lurked an experimental Moog synthesizer album equally as colourful. It’s not big in terms of structure, melody, arrangements or structure but for the sheer sonic sounds alone, “Electronic Sound” is an extended and uncontrolled Moog excursion.
The cover sports a self-portrait of Harrison at the controls of his Moog as a green-skinned, friendly Frankenstein with a clown’s painted smile just barely masking his true expression of alarm as though he’s just hit on yet another sound that has completely freaked him out. He’s almost entwined in the spider’s web of patch bay wires, while the backside of his Moog seems to sport a paint job by the Dutch psychedelic art ensemble, The Fool.
The album is comprised of side one’s 25-minute long free-form epic “Under the Mersey Wall” while side two is the more compositionally organized “No Time Or Space.” Both pieces are aural rollercoaster rides, featuring alarming and unusual zapping twists over an assortment of tone colors, pitch-controlled hi-jinx and outright experimentalism in the most extreme album Harrison would ever produce.
The album offered here is the UK release. The cover on the UK edition is much brighter with more vibrant colors as compared with the US release. The condition of the cover is NM and displays minimal wear. The printed inner sleeve has aged accordingly and is very nice. The record itself has a wonderful sheen and displays no apparent sign of ever being played. This just for arguments sake we’ll grade it at a MINT-.
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