Show Cloud Nine N i n e LP P Ends Five Year Absence f For George Harrison Harrelson Harrison t. t i 5 J 1 i F j f S r By Robert B. B Barron Barren George Harrison after a five year absence from the music industry has just r released leased a new album entitled Cloud Nine The record is Harrisons Harrison's finest work since the 1970 three album set All Things Must Pass Harrison has high hopes for commercial success and with good reason The material on n Cloud Nine evolved from the newly formed musical team of Harrison and Jeff Lynne Lynnes Lynne's experience with the symphonic-pop symphonic band Electric Light Orchestra is present throughout the album Lynnes Lynne's work with ELO always revealed a strong Beatles influence however Harrison said that his major emphasis for forming the new team developed out of other factors With Harrison and Lynne on the new album are long time friends Ringo Starr Eric Clapton Gary Wright and Elton John Despite the shifting cast of characters collaborating collaborating collaborating with Harrison and Lynne Harrison said this is the first time since the old days that I felt as if I were in a band He said both he and Lynne were in complete agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment about the songs and the sound of Cloud Nine Powered by the recent twentieth anniversary of Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and the release of the Beatles on compact disk Harrison has high hopes for a commercial success According to an article in Rolling RollingStone RollingStone RollingStone Stone the poor showing of Harrisons Harrison's most recent 1982 album Gone may have been the number one reason for Harrisons Harrison's five year absence Harrison said that its it's hard to have a hit without the time air-time and without the time air-time what's the use of even recording at all Cloud Nine offers a cri crisp p bright neatly textured sound that sidesteps trends and still manages to set Harrison squarely in the Harrisons Harrison's mastery of the slide guitar is prominently featured on the album and Harrison has never been in better voice The title track is a mystical song resembling the famed Material World The ballads Someplace Else Just for Today and Breath Away from Heaven subtly capture the mood of Harrison's Harrisons Harrisons Harrison's Harrisons Harrison's Harri Harri- sons son's spiritual life This Is Love t. t When We Was Fab Fab Devils Radio and Wreck of the I are deeply influenced by Lynnes Lynne's group ELO The albums first single Got My Mind Set on You offers a sort of RB mood for listeners This Is Love What It Takes and Fish on the Sand find Harrison mining the same vein that yielded such hits as You What Is Life and Blow Away When We Was Fab refers to the Beatles as Harrison and Lynne textured the song to resemble I Am the Walrus Harrison said referring to When We Was Fab that Ringo still plays the drums just like he played in the old days Harrisons Harrison's lable table Warner Bros produced a promo in which Harrison can be seen doing a back flip and break dancing to th the tune Got My Mind A t on You You Harrison also filmy a his first music video featuring Lynne Harrison said of his old friends mends Chuck Barry Bob Dylan Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr the older we all get the better we get If this is true Harrisons Harrison's fans can look forward to years of Harrisons Harrison's continued success j |