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"It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the final track of his 1974 album ''Dark Horse''. Harrison was inspired to write the song while in the Hindu holy city of Vrindavan, in northern India, with his friend Ravi Shankar. The composition originated on a day that Harrison describes in his autobiography as "my most fantastic experience",〔George Harrison, p. 296.〕 during which his party and their ascetic guide toured the city's temples. The song's choruses were adapted from the Sanskrit chant they sang before visiting Seva Kunj, a park dedicated to Krishna's childhood. The same pilgrimage to India led to Harrison staging Shankar's Music Festival from India in September 1974 and undertaking a joint North American tour with Shankar at the end of that year. Despite the devotional nature of the song, Harrison wrote it part-way through a period of divergence from the spiritual goals he had espoused in his previous works, particularly ''Living in the Material World'' (1973). "It Is 'He'" serves as a rare example of an overtly religious song on ''Dark Horse''. Recorded between August and October 1974, the track features an unusual mix of musical styles and instrumentation – including gospel-style keyboards, folk-rock acoustic guitar, Indian string and percussion instruments, and Moog synthesizer. Besides Harrison, the musicians on the recording include Billy Preston, Tom Scott and Emil Richards, all of whom played in his 1974 tour band and contributed to Shankar's concurrent release, ''Shankar Family & Friends''. "It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)" continued Harrison's fusion of the Hindu bhajan tradition with Western pop and rock. The song failed to gain the favourable reception afforded his earlier productions in that style, however, such as "My Sweet Lord", "Hare Krishna Mantra" and "Give Me Love". With his spiritual pronouncements during the tour proving similarly unwelcome to many music critics, Harrison subsequently withdrew from making such public statements of Hindu religiosity until producing Shankar's ''Chants of India'' album in 1996. "It Is 'He'" was the last overtly devotional song released under Harrison's name until the posthumously issued "Brainwashed" in 2002. ==Background and inspiration== In a 1994 interview held at Ravi Shankar's home in California,〔Shankar, p. 309.〕 George Harrison referred to the reluctance he would often feel before visiting Shankar in India or meeting with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,〔 founder of the Hare Krishna movement, or more formally the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).〔Allison, pp. 45–46.〕 This was due to the "craziness" taking place in his life, Harrison continued, which sat at odds with the spiritual goals represented by these friends.〔''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' DVD, Village Roadshow, 2011 (directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair & Martin Scorsese), Disc 2; event occurs between 14:38 and 15:35.〕 In January and February 1974, he visited India part-way through a period that he describes in his autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', as "the naughty years", coinciding with the end of his marriage to Pattie Boyd.〔Leng, p. 148.〕〔Tillery, pp. 116–17.〕 This visit led to Harrison writing two songs that would appear on his ''Dark Horse'' album later that year: "It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)" and "Simply Shady".〔George Harrison, pp. 282, 296.〕〔 While the latter track reflected the singer's recent indulgences with drugs and alcohol,〔Inglis, pp. 44–45.〕〔Allison, pp. 100, 154.〕 "It Is 'He'" documented what author Simon Leng terms "a spiritual epiphany for Harrison" in the Hindu holy city of Vrindavan.〔Leng, pp. 150–51, 157.〕 Harrison went to India in 1974 to attend a ceremony in honour of Shankar's new home,〔Leng, p. 157.〕 in Benares, on the banks of the Ganges.〔Shankar, p. 223.〕 At this time, the two musicians came up with the idea for Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India,〔Olivia Harrison, p. 302.〕〔Kevin Howlett's liner notes, ''Dark Horse'' CD booklet (Apple Records, 2014; produced by George Harrison), p. 5.〕 a revue of Indian folk music presented by an orchestra of eighteen pioneers of the genre,〔〔Lavezzoli, p. 195.〕 and a subsequent joint tour of North America.〔 From Benares, Harrison and Shankar then travelled across the state of Uttar Pradesh to Vrindavan, where the Hindu deity Krishna is said to have spent his childhood, thousands of years before.〔Greene, p. 209.〕〔Tillery, p. 112.〕 Discussing "It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)" in ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison recalls that they arrived there at dusk, and adds: "the whole town is Krishna conscious – everyone, everywhere was chanting 'Hare Krishna' and various permutations on that."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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