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''The Radha Krsna Temple'' is a 1971 album of Hindu devotional songs recorded by the UK branch of the Hare Krishna movement – more formally, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) – who received the artist credit of "Radha Krishna Temple (London)". The album was produced by George Harrison and released on the Beatles' Apple record label. It compiled two hit singles by the Temple devotees, "Hare Krishna Mantra" and "Govinda", with other Sanskrit-worded mantras and prayers recorded with Harrison from July 1969 onwards. The recordings reflected Harrison's commitment to the Gaudiya Vaishnava teachings of the movement's leader, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who had sent devotees from San Francisco to London in 1968. The success of the Temple's first single, "Hare Krishna Mantra", helped popularise the Hare Krishna movement in the West, and inspired Harrison's more overtly religious songs on his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. Among the Temple members, former jazz musician and future ISKCON leader Mukunda Goswami provided the musical arrangements on the recordings. After its initial release, the album was reissued on the Spiritual Sky label and by Prabhupada's Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, often with the new title ''Goddess of Fortune''. Apple officially reissued ''The Radha Krsna Temple'' on CD in 1993, and again in 2010, with the addition of two bonus tracks. ==Background== In 1968, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder and acharya (leader) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), sent six of his devotees to London to establish a new centre there, the Radha Krishna Temple, and so expand on the success of ISKCON's temples in New York and San Francisco.〔Dwyer & Cole, p. 30.〕 The group was led by Mukunda Das, formerly a pianist with jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and Shyamsundar Das.〔Greene, pp. 84, 103, 106.〕 The acharya advised them to seek out George Harrison of the Beatles, whose interest in Hindu philosophy, meditation and Indian music had done much to promote these causes among Western youth.〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', pp. 34, 36.〕 In December 1968, Shyamsundar met Harrison at the Beatles' Apple Corps headquarters in central London,〔Tillery, p. 69.〕 after which Harrison began visiting the devotees at their warehouse accommodation in Covent Garden.〔Greene, pp. 106, 143.〕 Having first experienced kirtan, or communal chanting, while in the Indian city of Vrindavan with Ravi Shankar, in 1966,〔Tillery, pp. 57–58, 69.〕 Harrison was inspired by the devotees' music-making, whereby mantras were sung accompanied by instrumentation such as harmonium and percussion.〔Greene, p. 108.〕 He and John Lennon had similarly enjoyed Prabhupada's album of chants, ''Krishna Consciousness''.〔Clayson, pp. 247, 248.〕〔Tillery, pp. 58–59, 69, 160.〕 In addition, Harrison had come to appreciate the positive properties of the Maha or Hare Krishna mantra,〔Tillery, pp. 108–10.〕 after he had chanted it when his plane lost control during a flight back from San Francisco in August 1967.〔Greene, pp. 84, 103, 145.〕 From his first visit to the devotees' warehouse, Harrison regularly played harmonium during kirtan with Shyamsundar and others, sometimes with synthesizer accompaniment from Billy Preston,〔Clayson, pp. 267, 275–76.〕 whom Harrison was producing for the Beatles' Apple record label.〔Spizer, p. 340.〕 According to author Joshua Greene, the decision to release recordings by the Radha Krishna Temple came about after one such session of kirtan, held at Harrison's Surrey home, Kinfauns.〔Greene, pp. 141–43.〕 Harrison telephoned the devotees the following morning, saying, "You're going to make a record", and told them to come to Abbey Road Studios that same evening.〔Greene, p. 143.〕 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「The Radha Krsna Temple (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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