Lord Sitar

Великолепный диск! Просто фантастика! Так необычно – знакомые композиции зазвучали совершенно по новому. Рассмотрение западной музыки через призму восточной – и в тоже время наоборот – восточная – музыка ситара – через классические западные композиции. Полный восторг!
Пластинке этой уже 30 с лишним лет, но интрига-то остается – кто же Lord Sitar то, собственно? Это вопрос!
Понятно, что без Джорджа и Рави Шанкара, не обошлось, но все равно загадка остается загадкой.
Какие у кого соображения?

Было, было...
https://www.beatles.ru/postman/forum_messages.asp?cfrom=1&msg_id=3530&cpage=1&forum_id=0

А пластинка действительно гениальная

Cкорее всего Lord Sitar - это Big Jim Sullivan.
http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/60s/bigjimsullivan.htm

Спасибо за ссылочку.

я не слышал пластинку - но если там песни Битлс исполняются на восточных инструментах - то возникает вопрос - зачем Джорджу
это было надо ? он все время говорил что усал быть битлом и рад что это закончилось - а тут битловские песни играть - дикость какаято ...

: AlexV, Вы во-первых послушайте, во-вторых почитайте буклетик, многое прояснится, тем более, что речь идет не обязательно об игре Джорджа на ситаре, а о некоторой степени вовлеченности Джорджа в создание этой пластинки. Во всяком случае для меня загадка пока остается

сейчас послушаю - коечто из инета уже тяну - думаю понравится - я инд музыку люблю (не путать с кошмаром из кинофильмов) - там Hariprasad Chaurassia и прочие товарищи мне глубоко симпатичны
а где буклетикто возьму - нету пластиночки то

Вот еще интересная ссылка:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME04/West_meets_east.html

диск замечательный!.. а с участием Джорджа и впрямь загадка...
кстати, а кто такой John Hawkins, числящийся как тот, кем этот диск был arranged, directed and produced by? Имя знакомое... но... либо склероз у меня, либо сер я как штаны пожарного... :(

А вот текст из буклетика, этим же Hawkins'ом подписанный:

LORD SITAR
The introduction of the sitar into pop music by Beatle, George Harrison, is one of those phenomenons of our day and age — but one thing is certain, it is here to stay. The tonal qualities of the instrument, the combination of many different forms of atonal and hi-tonal scales; the adaptability to any style, and the plaintive, haunting sounds produced, are just a few of the reasons why this instrument has become the very core of psychedelia.
In this record, we have tried to show as many different aspects of this instrument as possible, from the simple melodic treatment of "Emerald City" and the more oriental flavour of George Harrison's "Blue Jay Way", to the fast exciting treatment of "I Can See For Miles" and "Like Nobody Else".
One track of note which could almost have been written for sitar, is "If I Were A Rich Man", which takes the listener on a round trip from India to Tijuana Brass country and back, ending on a traditional Indian raga.
We hope that you will enjoy listening to this record as much as everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Only one question remains — WHO IS LORD SITAR?
John Hawkins

послушал несколько песен :
сильно - особенно Elanor Rigby на ситаре пробирает :)
но мне кажется это не Джордж - тут просто стеб на ситаре - я думаю он так не стал бы так играть- ну и вообще IMHO не так он на нем играл

In 1968, psychedelia finally achieved acceptance in the corporate offices of EMI. Rather than just letting the artists on their roster come up with psychedelic music as their creative impulses dictated, the label began looking for psychedelia and, in some instances, creating it corporately. These impulses would ultimately be channeled sensibly into the Harvest Records label and, to a lesser degree, Regal Zonophone. But in the meantime, it led to the Lord Sitar album.

Lord Sitar is both an anonymous soloist and an equally obscure ensemble whose sole claim to fame — or anything else — is the self-titled album that they (or is it he?) cut for EMI in 1968. Near as one can tell, producer-arranger John Hawkins dreamed up this little exercise in raga-schlock, which used as its jumping off point George Harrison's sitar work on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and recreated the droning textures of "Within You, Without You." Indeed, the anonymity of Lord Sitar, and the fact that awkins mentioned Harrison prominently in his notes resulted in the suspicion that Lord Sitar was none other than the Beatles guitarist himself. This ruse (the precursor, in its modest way, to the rumors surrounding Klaatu a decade later) might've worked — at least for a few seconds — if only Hawkins hadn't selected truly bizarre songs such as "If I Were A Rich Man," "Daydream Believer," and Kim Fowley's "Ode To Joy" rip-off "Emerald City" — not to mention Hawkins' own "Tomorrow's People" and "In A Dream" — to record. The rule of any good con job, no matter how subtle and unassuming, is that you never go outside the realm of what the mark (i.e. the public) thinks is possible. An aparent Anglo-French production, the whole thing sank quickly, generating more press than sales. — Bruce Eder
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bj3ri28vc05ja

JOHN HAWKINS
Among this musicographer and music historians friends were Georg Frideric Handel and John Stanley. As an attorney in London he worked among the musical and literary echelon. Besides writing on music history Hawkins also owned a significant collection of music and treatises on music. "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music" was quite significant but unfortunately brought him into a rivalry with Charles Burney. Hawkins' history contains important data concerning the musical society of London during his life time but also stressed the innovations of 16th and 17th century composers. John Hawkins also wrote a life of Samuel Johnson. Within the purview of some of his wroks, Hawkins addressed the specific corpus of literature by an idividual composer in its content and context, such as "The General History and Peculiar Character of the Works of Arcangelo Corelli." — Keith Johnson
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bny6m968o3ep5


LORD SITAR (Columbia SX/SCX 6256) [01/01/]1968, also released in the US (Capitol ST 2916)

A minor collectable boosted in value by speculations that Lord Sitar was George Harrison whose interest in sitars and gurus was well-known. Competent instrumentals include covers of Daydream Believer, I Am The Walrus, Eleanor Rigby, I Can See For Miles, Black Is Black and more and make for pleasant if languid listening. THE MYSTERY PERSON BEHIND THE ALBUM TURNS OUT TO BE U.K. SESSION SUPER-HERO BIG JIM SULLIVAN. — Max Waller
http://www.borderlinebooks.com/uk6070s/tapestry.html...orderlinebooks.com/uk6070s/l5z.html

2 AlexV
А ссылку не кинешь, если действительно где-то можно скачать?

скачивал через winmx
прога с www.winmx.com
я коечто скачал - но прямо щас наверное дать не сумею :(
поищи через тот поисковик

Ну вот еще одной битловской загадкой стало меньше, жаль...