Within You Without You Painting

Within You Without You was composed on a harmonium following a dinner party at the London home of Klaus Voorman, the German artist and musician whom The Beatles first met in Hamburg. Written by George Harrison, it was the only non-Lennon-McCartney song on the Sgt Pepper album. Within You Without You came about after I had spent a bit of time in India and fallen under the spell of the country and its music. I had brought back a lot of instruments. It was written at Klaus Voormann's house in Hampstead after dinner one night. The song came to me when I was playing a pedal harmonium. I'd also spent a lot of time with Ravi Shankar, trying to figure out how to sit and hold the sitar, and how to play it. Within You Without You was a song that I wrote based upon a piece of music of Ravi's that he'd recorded for All-India Radio. It was a very long piece - maybe 30 or 40 minutes - and was written in different parts, with a progression in each. I wrote a mini version of it, using sounds similar to those I'd discovered in his piece. I recorded in three segments and spliced them together later. George Harrison This composition of this piece came to me, appropriately enough, through meditation. I was thinking about George Harrison, not living in the material world with us any longer, but how his message goes on without him, and how, in "All Things Must Pass" the lyric; "Sunset doesn't last all evening A mind can blow those clouds away After all this my love is up And must be leaving But it's not always going To be this grey" I thought it would be appropriate to have him playing a sitar on the shore at sunset, yet the sitar, being a material object, casts a shadow, while George himself is drifting in and out of existence in the material world, and casts no shadow.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16 W x 20 H x 0.5 D in

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