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Fan art of @oberorka’s Zapple :3

the album concludes with 'two minutes silence' in memory of their lost child, followed by 'radio play', a twelve minute recording of static and tuning sounds as ono adjusts a radio dial. captured during a tumultous period of media scrutiny and police harassment, the release stands as one of lennon's most raw, uncomprosiing, and deeply personal experimental efforts.

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“We conceived of an offshoot [Zapple] of Apple Records that would be arty music that wouldn’t normally gain an outlet, a series where people could talk or read their work, as with the [Richard] Brautigan thing. The intention was to get Lenny Bruce and all these kinds of people. But as with so many other things at Apple, it seized up before it really got going. Both of the albums that did come out [Electronic Sound, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Life With The Lions: Unfinished Music No. 2] are a load of rubbish, yet they’re interesting from a collector’s point of view. The theory was, we wanted to let serendipity take hold.” - George Harrison, Musician, November 1987 (x)

Vera: I did say so before.

George Harrison’s Electronic Sound, released in 1969 by Zapple, a short-lived subsidiary of the Beatles’ Apple label. One epic electronic work for each album side, performed on a Moog 3-series synthesizer. The cover art comes from a painting by Harrison.