 Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 Packaging: Jewel Case with Booklet and Tray Card Released: Stereorrific Recordings (11/6/2006) |
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Hotel HarrisonBy Jeff MellinAn elegy for George Harrison
When George Harrison succumbed to lung cancer in 2001, the poet Garrett
Caples was so moved by the Beatle's death that he wrote a sublime elegy
titled "Light Sleeper" and mailed it out to close friends on handmade
prayer cards. One such friend, the songwriter Jeff Mellin, was so moved
by the poem he set it to music, and a rough acoustic mp3 circulated in
a similar circle. Jeff then brought in his brother, the computer music
composer Joel Mellin, and bassist Dimtri Fane to help with a fully
produced version. Joel was then inspired to composed a White
Album-via-gamelan inspired avant-garde piece. They played it all for
friends, polished it off, and quietly put it on the shelf. Five years after Harrison's passing, Stereorrific humbly presented this set of elegiac recordings to the public for the first time. Also included on the CD is a short Quicktime film of Garrett Caples reading the original poem at the St. George's poetry festival in New York, punctuated by the paintings of Chinese surrealist Hu Xin. $1.00 from the sale of each CD will be donated to The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. << Back |
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