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''Wonderwall Music'' is the soundtrack album to the 1968 film ''Wonderwall'', and the debut solo release by English musician George Harrison. It was the first album to be issued on the Beatles' Apple record label, and the first solo album by a member of that band. The songs are all instrumental pieces, except for occasional non-English vocals, and a slowed-down spoken word segment on the track "Dream Scene". Harrison recorded the album between November 1967 and February 1968, with sessions taking place in London and the Indian city of Bombay. Following his Indian-styled compositions for the Beatles since 1966, he used the film soundtrack to further promote Indian classical music by introducing rock audiences to musical instruments that were relatively little-known in the West – including shehnai, sarod and santoor. Harrison's main collaborator on the project was classical pianist and orchestral arranger John Barham, while other contributors include Indian classical musicians Aashish Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Shankar Ghosh and Mahapurush Misra. Harrison also recorded Western rock music selections for the album, which feature contributions from Tony Ashton and the latter's band, the Remo Four, as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Peter Tork. During the sessions, Harrison recorded many other pieces that appeared in ''Wonderwall'' but not on the soundtrack album, and the Beatles' song "The Inner Light" also originated from his time in Bombay. Although the album's release in November 1968 marked the end of Harrison's direct involvement with Indian music, it inspired his later collaborations with Ravi Shankar, including the 1974 Music Festival from India. The album cover consists of a painting by American artist Bob Gill in which, as in director Joe Massot's film, two contrasting worlds are separated by a wall, with only a small gap allowing visual access between them. Harrison omitted his name from the list of performing musicians, leading to an assumption that he had merely produced and arranged the music; the 2014 reissue of ''Wonderwall Music'' recognises his contributions on keyboards and guitar. The album was first remastered for CD release in 1992, for which former Apple executive Derek Taylor supplied a liner-note essay. While viewed as something of a curiosity by rock music critics, ''Wonderwall Music'' is recognised for its inventiveness in fusing Western and Eastern sounds, and as being a precursor to the 1980s world music trend. The album's title inspired that of Oasis' 1995 hit song "Wonderwall", and its music influenced the sound of Oasis' fellow Britpop band Kula Shaker. Harrison's full soundtrack for the film was made available on DVD in early 2014, as part of the two-disc ''Wonderwall Collector's Edition''. In September that year, the album was reissued in remastered form as part of the ''Apple Years 1968–75'' Harrison box set, with the addition of three bonus tracks. ==Background== The soundtrack to director Joe Massot's film ''Wonderwall'' (1968), ''Wonderwall Music'' was George Harrison's first formal musical project outside the Beatles,〔Greene, p. 91.〕 created during a time when he was immersed in his discovery of Indian classical music.〔Inglis, pp. 16, 17.〕 It also coincided with a period when Harrison had had minimal interest in the Beatles' recent activities,〔Ingham, p. 55.〕 namely their 1967 album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' and the TV film ''Magical Mystery Tour''.〔Leng, p. 47.〕〔MacDonald, pp. 209, 236, 240.〕 Having met the Beatles while the band were shooting their 1965 film ''Help!'', Massot offered the soundtrack project to Harrison after the Bee Gees had dropped out in October 1967.〔Clayson, p. 234.〕 Harrison viewed ''Wonderwall'' at Twickenham Film Studios〔 and was intrigued by the storyline, in which a lonely professor (played by Irish actor Jack MacGowran)〔Bill Harry, ("Wonderwall" ), sixtiescity.net/Mersey Beat (retrieved 16 July 2014).〕 first glimpses and then becomes obsessed by his glamorous female neighbour, a ''Vogue'' model (played by Jane Birkin),〔 via a hole in the wall separating their apartments.〔 Harrison biographer Simon Leng writes: "The lack of dialogue left acres of room for music to speak, and a soupçon of cosmic apotheosis also helped. Beneath all its glaring trippiness, ''Wonderwall'' touched on themes that would come to preoccupy George Harrison – critically, the objectification of celebrities and the shallowness of fame."〔 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「Wonderwall Music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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