 The album came about while Harrison was in Los Angeles overseeing projects by some of his Dark Horse signings , one of which , Splinter , became unavailable to attend sessions pre @-@ booked for them at A & M Studios . Although Harrison was unimpressed with the recording facility , he chose to use the vacated studio time himself . Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter suggest that this decision was influenced by his business relationship with A & M Records , who were Dark Horse 's worldwide distributor and the company with which Harrison was widely expected to sign as a solo artist , following the expiration of his EMI / Capitol @-@ affiliated Apple contract in January 1976 . Having barely written a song in the six months since completing Dark Horse , in late October 1974 , he swiftly completed some half @-@ finished compositions and wrote " a couple of new ones " . Leng cites these circumstances , together with Harrison 's eagerness " to cut a new album as soon as possible , to extricate himself from the Capitol / EMI contract " , as part of an expedient quality that defines Extra Texture . 
