London
(ANI):
Sir
Paul
McCartney
is
set
to
release
a
14-minute
Beatles
track,
41
years
after
its
only
public
performance,
it
has
emerged.
'Carnival
of
Light',
recorded
in
January
1967,
features
distorted
guitars
and
drum-beats,
gargling,
church
organs,
and
Sir
Paul
and
John
Lennon
yelling:
'Are
you
all
right?'
and
'Barcelona!'
The
song
was
performed
at
an
electronic
music
festival
that
year
and
the
audience
was
ignorant
that
it
was
a
Beatles
track.
However,
the
band
never
released
it,
thinking
the
song
was
too
adventurous.
McCartney
said
that
George
Harrison
had
called
such
experimentation
"avant-garde
a
clue".
Macca
possesses
a
master
tape,
and
said,
"the
time
has
come
for
it
to
get
its
moment",
if
he
can
get
permission
from
the
group's
estate
for
its
release.
McCartney
was
commissioned
by
his
friend
Barry
Miles
to
make
a
track
for
the
1967
Million
Dollar
Light
and
Volt
Sound
Rave
at
the
Roundhouse
Theatre
in
London.
Taking
inspiration
from
the
composers
Karlheinz
Stockhausen
and
John
Cage,
"Carnival
of
Light" was
duly
recorded
at
the
Abbey
Road
studios
while
the
band
were
working
on
the
vocals
for
"Penny
Lane".
"We
were
set
up
in
the
studio
and
would
just
go
in
every
day
and
record," the
Independent
quoted
McCartney,
as
telling
the
BBC
Radio
4
arts
programme
Front
Row,
in
an
interview
to
be
broadcast
later
this
week.
"I
said
to
the
guys,
this
is
a
bit
indulgent,
but
would
you
mind
giving
me
10
minutes?
All
I
want
you
to
do
is
just
wander
round
all
the
stuff
and
bang
it,
shout,
play
it.
Then
we
put
a
bit
of
echo
on
it.
It's
very
free."
The
track
came
within
a
whisker
of
inclusion
on
the
1996
Beatles
compilation
Anthology.
"I
said
it
would
show
we
were
working
with
really
avant-garde
stuff,
but
it
was
vetoed,"
McCartney
said.
Sir
George
Martin,
the
producer
who
oversaw
the
recording,
described
the
track
as
'a
kind
of
uncomposed
free-for-all
melange
of
sound'.