Title: I'd Love To Turn You On Vol 2 / Various
Artist: I'D Love to Turn You on Vol 2 / Various
Label: El Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929335936
Genre: Experimental (Noise)

Four CD set. Second volume of I'd Love to Turn You On, a series which explores the relationship between '60s pop and classical music, free jazz and the avant-garde; providing many examples of how popular music evolved, matured and became liberated under the influence of apparently deeper, more expansive genres. While preparing Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Pepper - major artistic achievements that would change popular music forever - The Beatles drew on a wide range of eclectic influences; from the outer limits of jazz (John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler) and from the audacious sound experiments of modernist composers including John Cage, who believed all sound to be music and Pierre Schaeffer who pioneered musique concrète. Looking to strike a balance, George Martin contributed a more formal classical understanding which proved essential in creating such productions as 'Yesterday' and 'Eleanor Rigby'. Literary enthusiasms also played a part - with Lewis Carroll a less than distant echo on 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' and 'I Am The Walrus' - as did a certain playful irreverence derived from the anarchic humour of The Goons. With psychedelia in it's infancy and with everything possible, many other popular artists, brought up on blues or beat felt encouraged to embrace music from further afield. In 1965, live performances of David Bowie's group, The Lower Third, came to a screaming conclusion with a feedback-laden interpretation of 'Mars' from 'The Planets'. The fantasy quality of Syd Barrett's songwriting for Pink Floyd's debut 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', drew on the nonsense verse of Hilaire Belloc. Pete Townshend was introduced to the music of the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell by his manager Kit Lambert. The 'Gordian Knot Untied' uses a series of suspended chords. The sadness and sophistication of the chord suspensions made a strong impression on Townshend and he began incorporating the idea into his work, with the intro to 'Pinball Wizard' being the classic example. In America, Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention's revolutionary debut, 'Freak Out!', connected modernist composition to pop citing Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Boulez and Varèse under the heading "These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make Our Music What it is". The album was both without precedent and of great influence. Not for nothing did Paul McCartney reportedly call 'Sgt Pepper' "our 'Freak Out!'. "

Tracks:
1.1 Mars, the Bringer of War (Allegro), from the Planets, Op. 32
1.2 To Begin at the Beginning, from Under Milk Wood - a Play for Voices
1.3 Greensleeves
1.4 Time on Our Hands (Titles and City Music)
1.5 Spirits
1.6 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Scene One
1.7 Aria with Fontana Mix
1.8 Ensemble Introduction to Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden - Bass Solo
1.9 Ensemble Introduction to Scott Lafaro / Scott Lafaro - Bass Solo
1.10 Advice to Medics
1.11 The Raven
1.12 Objets Étendus from Étude Aux Objets (Study of Objects)
1.13 Tweedledum and Tweedledee from Alice Through the Looking Glass
1.14 Variations Sur Une Flûte Mexicaine (Excerpt)
2.1 I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas
2.2 Malaguena
2.3 Take Five
2.4 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments
2.5 Frühling (Spring)
2.6 September
2.7 Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep)
2.8 Im Abendrot (At Sunset)
2.9 Aubade
2.10 The Wagon Passes
2.11 Overture
2.12 Air (Moderato)
2.13 Rondeau Minuet
2.14 Air (Allegro)
2.15 Jig
2.16 Chaconne
2.17 Air (Allegro)
2.18 Minuet
2.19 La Cathédrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)
2.20 My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone
2.21 Vetcheryai Rado (Come to Supper Tonight, Rada)
2.22 Polegnala E Todora (Theodora Is Dozing)
2.23 Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
2.24 Marche Du Soldat - Airs de Marche
2.25 Premier Tableau: Airs By a Stream
2.26 Deuxième Tableau: Pastorale
2.27 Marche Royale
2.28 Petit Concert
2.29 Trois Danses: Tango, Valse, Ragtime
2.30 Danse Du Diable
2.31 Grand Choral
2.32 Marche Triomphale Du Diable
2.33 Vorgefühle (Premonitions)
2.34 Vergangenes (The Past)
2.35 Sommermorgen An Einem See (Summer Morning By a Lake: Chord-Colours)
2.36 Peripetie (Peripeteia)
2.37 Das Obligate Rezitativ (The Obbligato Recitative)
2.38 Turkey: Automobile on Mountain Road - Central Anatolian Dance
2.39 Iran: Rhythm of a Train
2.40 India: Raga Zila from Varanasi
2.41 India: Temple Bells and Drums of a Bengali Kali Temple
2.42 Allegretto Pizzicato
2.43 San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)
2.44 Bronce Gitano (Solaeres)
2.45 Bolero
2.46 Osanna in Excelsis from Sanctus from Mass in D Minor
2.47 Symphony No.5 in E Flat, Op.82
2.48 First Movement: Tempo Molto Moderato - Largamente - Allegro Moderato - Presto
2.49 Introduction By Yehudi Menuhin
2.50 Rag Sindhi Bhairavi
2.51 Matilda, from Four Cautionary Tales
2.52 Jet Song from "West Side Story"
2.53 Symphony No.9 in D Major : First Movement: Andante Comodo
2.54 You're the Top