Wednesday, February 18, 1970
Recording "Kreen - Akrore"
For Paul McCartney
Last updated on April 15, 2022
Wednesday, February 18, 1970
For Paul McCartney
Last updated on April 15, 2022
"McCartney" sessions at Morgan Studios
Feb 12-20, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Recording studio: Morgan Studios, London, UK
Session Feb 12-20, 1970 • "McCartney" sessions at Morgan Studios
Album Feb 16, 1970 • "Magic Christian Music" by Badfinger released in the US
Session Feb 18, 1970 • Recording "Kreen - Akrore"
Session Feb 21, 1970 • Mixing "The Lovely Linda", "Momma Miss America", "Singalong Junk"
Session February 21 to March 1970 • "McCartney" sessions at EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Some of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "McCartney" LP.
The previous night, on February 17, 1970, Paul McCartney watched a TV documentary – “The Tribe That Hides From Man“ – about Brazil’s indigenous Kreen-Akrore tribe.
This inspired him to create, on this day and the following days at Morgan Studios, an instrumental track that would be released on his debut solo album, “McCartney“.
There was a film on TV about the Kreen Akrore Indians living in the Brazilian jungle, their lives and how the white man is trying to change their way of life to his, so the next day after lunch I did some drumming.
The idea behind it was to get the feeling of their hunt. So later piano, guitar and organ were added to the first section. The second had a few tracks of voices (Linda and I) and the end had overdubbed breathing, going into organ and two lead guitars in harmony.
Done at Morgan. Engineer, Robin Black.
The end of the first section has Linda and I doing animal noises (speeded up) and an arrow sound (done live with bow and arrow – the bow broke), then animals stampeding across a guitar case. There are two drum tracks.
We built a fire in the studio but didn’t use it (but used the sound of the twigs breaking).
Paul McCartney, from the press release of “McCartney”, April 1970
Paul and Linda went to Harrods to buy a bow, an arrow and a target… We set this up in the studio and recorded the sound of the arrows flying through the air and hitting the target…
Robin Black – Engineer – Interview from “Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013)” by Luca Perasi
Written by Paul McCartney
Recording
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