wall, a picture of an Indian yogi with the Om symbol above him is upside down, and so too is the view through the office window in the top right corner of the image. Author Mark Brend describes the cover art as "a twist on the convention of making the instrument itself a focus", since the four Moog modules appear to be grouped together behind the synthesizer player as if they are his backing musicians. Release Electronic Sound was released on Zapple Records on 9 May 1969 in the UK and on 26 May in the United States. In the UK, the album's catalogue number was Zapple 02, indicating it as the second LP on the label after Lennon and Ono's Life with the Lions. Unlike Harrison, Lennon and Ono promoted their new album extensively on UK radio. During their interview for Radio Luxembourg, Lennon also gave a plug for Electronic Sound when stating that atmosphere and sound were now of more interest to him than melody and words. According to Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner, both albums confused and proved "virtually unlistenable" to the majority of record buyers, and Zapple's claim that it was a label producing "paperback records" was not borne out in the high retail price of the LPs in the US. Electronic Sound was sullied further after Krause wrote to Rolling Stone magazine complaining of Harrison's appropriation of his demonstration piece and saying that he was "frankly hurt and a bit disillusioned by the whole thing". Electronic Sound failed to chart in the United Kingdom, while in the United States, it peaked at number 191 during its two weeks on the Billboard Top LPs chart. As one of the first measures initiated by Allen Klein, the new manager of Apple Corps, the Zapple label was shut down shortly after the album's release. Electronic Sound and Life with the Lions were deleted and soon became highly prized among collectors. On the original United States and Canada pressings of Electronic Sound, the order of the recordings was accidentally switched, although the titles were not. This mistake caused many listeners to confuse the two pieces. The album was issued on CD for the first time in December 1996, in the UK and Japan only, at which point the correct running order was used. Harrison was highly dismissive of Electronic Sound and Life with the Lions at this time. Rather than