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The Isness
The Isness & The Otherness
The Isness (The Abbey Road Version)
Runtime: 2:15 (Final & mispress), 3:02 (Abbey Road)
A piece of Indian classical-inspired music, built around a Baluji sitar melody, guitar chords, strings and wordless vocals. Although largely sedate in sound, there’s a subtly unease running behind things. It was quite possibly an early recording for the album, both in terms of Riz Maslen providing vocals, and the use of samples, including flute from an actual Indian piece. Ocean waves add to the gentle, relaxing feel. For the 2018 Abbey Road reissue, an extended cut was used, adding almost a minute to the track.
Credits
Written by Cobain, Dougans.
Produced by The Future Sound of London.
Engineered by Yage and Stone Freshwaters at The Galaxial Pharmaceutical.
Sitar, dilruba and flute – Baluji Shrivastav.
Female voices – Riz Maslen and Christine Charley.
Strings – orchestrated and composed by Mau (Catrin Jones, Ben Pitt).
The Cabbage Orchestra:
Violins – Jennifer Underhill, Vulu Krakovic, Charles Cross.
Viola – Merlin Sturt.
Cello – Wayne Urqart.
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