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A New Sound: El Collects the Far-Out Music That Inspired Sixties Rock

March 2, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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For years, the El imprint of Cherry Red has been collecting all the strangest and most fascinating avant-garde classical pieces, electronic experiments, and oddball rarities for a fervent group of admirers.  Though their releases can be a little esoteric, El's collections have always been able to welcome in new listeners.  And now, they offer what might be the essential introduction to twentieth-century avant-garde and classical (at least for listeners tuned to popular music).  It's called I'd Love To Turn You On: Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture, and it's in stores now.

One of the reasons that the music of the mid-'60s remains so inviting and timeless is that musicians pulled from different musical cultures and idioms to create something inspired and altogether unheard in pop.   I'd Love To Turn You On is 3-CD set that collects many of the foundational electronic, avant-garde, and international pieces that inspired some of those revolutionary moves.  Drawing from interviews from The Beatles, George Martin, Bowie, Zappa, members of Pink Floyd, and others, the compilers have brought together a perfect primer of their favorite pieces.

Disc 1 features 15 pieces that inspired The Beatles, starting with an excerpt of Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto.  The story goes that Paul McCartney saw a performance of the piece on TV and was taken by the sound of the piccolo trumpet.  He invited David Mason to play the instrument on "Penny Lane."  Further classical and avant-garde pieces that inspired the Fabs follow.  From common fare like Bach's "Bourree in E Minor" and Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" (adapted into "Blackbird" and "Because," respectively) to the out-there sounds of Stockhausen, Berio, and Cage.  Listeners are also treated to Bernard Herrmann's iconic score from the shower scene in Psycho (which inspired the staccato strings in "Eleanor Rigby"), the scene from Shakespeare's King Lear sampled in "I Am the Walrus," and an improvisation on sitar by Ravi Shankar.  Meanwhile, Disc Two features pieces that inspired George Martin, including compositions that were incorporated into the globe-sweeping fade-out in "All You Need is Love."

And while a collection of pieces that influenced The Beatles could be exciting enough on its own, El continues on the theme, exploring Pink Floyd's musical connections to artists as disparate as Bill Evans, Davy Graham, Sun Ra, Handel, and Stravinsky (represented by eight pieces from  the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's rendition of The Rite of Spring.)  Meanwhile, Edgard Varese's "Hyperprism" - composed in 1922 - points to Frank Zappa's angular jazz that would emerge some four decades later.

Disc Three features the music that the Canterbury prog-rockers Soft Machine fused into their pastoral fare before featuring a trio of pieces that influenced the late Scott Walker. The collection is rounded out by the music that caught the attention of the architects of bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto.  Jobim's love of romantic classical music is well-documented and represented here by pieces from Ravel, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin.  Gilberto's influences, meanwhile, are represented by the lively "Estrada do so" by the hushed singer Lucio Alves; "Alma Brasileira" by his classical guitar mentor, Garoto; and the original version of "Estate" by Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti.

In all, I'd Love To Turn You On: Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture is a concise roadmap to the myriad distant, strange, or other-worldly sounds that revolutionized music through their synthesis by emerging psych-rockers.  The tape loops and experimentation from electronic pioneers, the lush sounds of romantic classical, or the sounds of instruments that had never been incorporated into Western pop, it's all here, sequenced in an inviting way and presented in a slipcase with a hefty liner notes book.

So take a trip with El back to the source and discover the many artists that inspired a generation of exciting music.  I'd Love To Turn You On: Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture is on shelves now, or you can order it online with the links below!

Various Artists, I'd Love To Turn You On: Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture (El/Cherry Red, 2020) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Disc 1:

The Beatles:
  1. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV1047 - Allegro Assai (Penny Lane)
  2. Bach - Bourree in E minor (Blackbird)
  3. Beethoven - Piano Sonata 14 Op 7 No 2 Moonlight - Adagio Sostenuto (Because)
  4. Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis (Excerpt) (A Day in the Life)
  5. Gesang Der Jünglinge (Tomorrow Never Knows)
  6. Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (Tomorrow Never Knows)
  7. John Cage - Williams Mix (Revolution 9)
  8. Bernard Hermann - The Murder from Psycho (Eleanor Rigby)
  9. Shakespeare - King Lear (Act IV, Scene 6) (I Am the Walrus)
  10. Sibelius - Symphony 7 (Excerpt) (Revolution 9)
  11. Ravi Shankar - Improvisation on the Theme from Pather Panchali
George Martin:
  12. Maurice Ravel - Lever Du Jour - Scène (From Daphnis & Chloe)
  13. Claude Debussy - Prélude À L'après-Midi D'une Faune - Oscc
  14. Claude Debussy - la Soiree Dans Grenade from Estampes (Day Tripper)
  15. Gustav Holst - Neptune from the Planets
Disc 2:
The Beatles/George Martin:
  1. Rouget de Lisle - la Marseillaise (All You Need Is Love)
  2. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves (All You Need Is Love)
  3. J S Bach - Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F Major (All You Need Is Love)
  4. J S Bach - Air on the G String from Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 (Yellow Submarine)
Richard Wright of Pink Floyd:
  5. Bill Evans Trio - The Autumn Leaves
Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd:
  6. Sun Ra - Interstellar Low Ways
  7. G.F. Handel - Halleluijah Chorus from the Messiah
  8. Davy Graham - Angi
  9. Ravi Shankar - Raga Simhendra Madhyamam
  10. John Coltrane - Tunji
  11. Yusef Lateef - Love Theme from Spartacus
  12. Thelonious Monk - Pannonica
  13. Charlie Parker Septet - Yardbird Suite
Syd Barrett/David Bowie:
-Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring Pt. 1: Adoration of the Earth-
  14. Introduction
  15. The Augurs of Spring
  16. Mock Abduction
  17. Spring Round Dances
  18. Games of the Rival Tribes
  19. Procession of the Wise Elder
  20. Adoration of the Earth
  21. Dance of the Earth
Frank Zappa:
  22. Edgard Varèse - Hyperprism

Disc 3:

Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine:
  1. Britten - Six Dukes Went A-Fishing
Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine:
  2. Sibelius - Symphony 2 - Allegretto
Scott Walker:
  3. Delius - a Song of the High Hills - Tranquillo
  4. Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
  5. Sibelius - Valse Triste
  6. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
Antonio Carlos Jobim:
  7. Maurice Ravel - Jeux D'eau
  8. Claude Debussy - Nuages from Nocturnes
  9. Heitor Villa-Lobos - Guitar Etude No. 5
  10. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vocalise
  11. Frederick Chopin - Prelude 4 Op 28
Joao Gilberto:
  12. Lucio Alves - Estrada Do Sol
  13. Bruno Martino - Estate
  14. Garoto - Alma Brasileira

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Davy Graham, John Cage, John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef

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Sam Stone has been obsessed with catalog music ever since his folks gave him a Contours best-of collection for his fourth birthday. He quickly began to learn all he could about rock and roll history and beyond, a passion that continues to this day. Sam followed his love for music to the classroom, earning a B.A. from Towson University in Electronic Media and Film, concentrating on radio and audio production, as well as an M.A. in Audio Arts from Syracuse University. He has put his knowledge and skills to work at prominent reissue labels and is excited to bring his perspectives on catalog music to a broader audience. When he’s not writing for The Second Disc, Sam can be found researching about music, talking about Joni Mitchell’s career, and adding another box set to his Amazon wish list.

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