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Harris Newman is a Montreal based guitarist and mastering engineer.He spends his days running Grey Market Mastering, and devotes his spare time to numerous musical projects, including his solo work, Triple Burner, Hrsta (both bands with GY!As a guitarist Newman is known for his quick fingerpicking style and experimental sonics.The Grooms and is the current guitarist of dEUS.The Love Substitutes, Bum Collar...Also available through
Conspiracy: www.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Harris Newman has quite a CV: he seems to have a hand in just about every musical project to have come out of Montreal's alternative rock scene.Newman's early career was as a part of Constellation band Sackville, whilst more recently he's been playing alongside Godspeed!Further to that, Newman is the resident mas...Harris Newman has quite a CV: he seems to have a hand in just about every musical project to have come out of Montreal's alternative rock scene.Newman's early career was as a part of Constellation band Sackville, whilst more recently he's been playing alongside Godspeed!This beautiful album from Harris Newman experiments with the raw sounds of the naked steel string guitar and a wider palette of instrumentation augmented beautifully in his particular brand of guitar soundscaping .The result is a rather diverse array of sounds and structures, all centered on the acoustic guitar.All Music Guide, September 23 2003
A Montreal based performer with connections to the Constellation record collective, Harris Newman isn't trying to sound like the most well known avatar from that city, Godspeed you Black Emperor.Though John Fahey is an obvious and acknowledged reference point (and perhaps ultimately inescapable given his impact on instrumental folk music), Newman's debut release calls to mind other performers as well, as enjoyable a reinterpretation and revival as any.Cawdron proves to be a sharp collaborator, often adding muffled or murky beats and stomps that add a distant atmosphere without necessarily trapping the recording in a prison of tremelous period recreation.The Best of John Fahey into the changer by mistake.The guitarist's activity in the Montreal avant scene has no doubt inspired some of the disc's more surprising moments, most notably those featuring percussion from Godspeed member Bruce Cawdron.Harris Newman an exception to this majority.He keeps his trap shut and lets his guitar do most of the talking, with occasional accompaniment by Bruce Cawdron on assorted instruments.Fakejazz, October 24 2003
When any guitarist reaches for their acoustic, the shadows of John Fahey and Leo Kottke loom.Not so much as a result of the new breed's lack of imagination and ability (far from it), but because of the enormous breadth of those two men's exhausting catalog.Junghans), Harris Newman's take on the guitar shows he's up to the challenge.Constellation Records family, Newman enlists Godspeed you Black Emperor member Bruce Cowdron for various (largely percussive) accents.Junghans, but with the added texture of bubbling percussion.Dashes of blues, jazz, folk and a few experimental twists give Newman's guitar playing a fresh and evolving sound.Six" has an elegantly baroque, haunting air a la "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" about it).But don't give up just yet, as you certainly won't want to miss the envigorating finale, an exciting lapsteel duet with the curious title of "Throwing The Goat."Americana guitar music, thoroughly embedded with the Takoma Records 1960's vibe.Harris is also an audio engineer, and perhaps THAT is why this really sounds like a long lost Takoma release, coming out for the first time 35 years later.But the sheer love of that sound is really obvious to me on this album and I just enjoyed the hell out of this record.His compositions defy our expectations of what instrumental guitar music is supposed to do.Montreal's Harris Newman (who plays bass for Sackville and has mastered albums by Fly Pan Am, Sam Shalabi and Polmo Polpo) plucks at his steel strings as though he's weaving a tapestry: with a finely honed attention to detail.John Fahey looms large on this release.He takes aspects of North American folk music (bluegrass, country, blues) and twists it with odd harmonies and a dark, moody atmosphere.If you're familiar with them, you'll have some idea of the attitude Newman takes on this project.John Fahey would be another obvious reference point, but, thankfully, he's not really ripping off the late guitarist as much as respectfully referencing him.Sequiturs takes this common instrument and takes it on a journey most uncommon.Harris Newman opts not to potentially sully these expressive pieces with the (again, potentially) limited language of the voice.This record sounds like what the walls must hear whenever Harris Newman picks up his guitar to play, practice, meditate or even noodle.Montreal's Grey Market Mastering audio facility (Polmo Polpo, Sam Shalabi, The Arcade Fire, The Dears).This recording is a tapestry of acoustic daydreams and lullabies.All of these different styles and sounds meld together to create a seamless recording which sounds like it could all be from one single impromptu performance.Sequiturs, its like a free spontaneous Harris Newman concert right before your very (closed) eyes.There is a stream of consciousness continuously flowing through all the tracks on this album.Sequiturs was released on Portland, Oregon based record label, Strange Attractors Audio House (www.John Fahey and Eugene Chadbourne.Skyscraper, June 1 2004
Few artists have created a new paradigm, shifting a musical genre to a different pattern or model for others to follow.Instrumental acoustic guitarist John Fahey was one such individual.Canadian guitarist Harris Newman is part of a rare fellowship of likeminded guitarists (Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke, et al) who have, at one time or another, become immersed in Fahey's compositional matrix.Newman has returned to Fahey's slightly psychedelic era, augmenting stark, introspective steel string fingerpicking against expansive, dancing passages.Newman's fingers flash sprightly across the fretboard, splashing the melody like liquid metal.Newman's debut is out of step and out of place with current instrumental releases.Sequiturs is an atypical collection rich in coloring, texture, and acoustics that arrives from an unexpected direction.Foxy Digitalis, June 9 2004
Solo acoustic guitar music is a hard beast to tackle.I've heard a lot of artists I admire try their hand and fail miserably.This is a genre that is as naked as can be and frauds are easily exposed.But Newman was particularly interesting because of his Montreal background and ties to the Constellation group of musicians (he is, or perhaps was, a member of Sackville).Constellation label, so Newman's folk meanderingss caught me off guard.In the early parts of the track, the drums are tight and follow the guitar closely.It's nice and clean, and the upbeat drumming reminds me of a lot of old school country music I've listened to through the years.While the guitar is playing basically the same thing as the first part of the song, the way the drums are played and engineered (the mix makes it sound as if they're being played in your own living room.It's brilliant) really opens the song up.It's like the first half is where they were just getting a feel for their new car, and the second half is where they loose their timidness and just floor it.Most of these tracks don't feature anything other than Newman's lone guitar.Other tracks, like "Trick Question" and "Bitten," lean more towards the folk stylings of Fahey.Their approach is simple and stripped down, but their delivery is not.The 15 minute "Forest For the Trees" is another excellent interplay between Newman's guitar and Cawdron's percussive abilities.The two artists have a great understanding for what each is trying to do; they create different, but complementary, images together that give the listener the full picture.Each instrument alone does not give the complete picture here.One needs to hear both, at the same time, to get the full effect.It builds in intensity throughout the middle of the piece, and finally settles into dust near the end.Harris Newman's debut is far more interesting than anything Sackville ever put out, and one can only hope that he continues pursuing this path instead.These recordings have a lot of heart and soul in them, like this is the music Newman has always wanted to make but never had the opportunity or the guts.Junghans than he does with the group of musicans for which his hometown is known.On a whole, this mellow album is a good time for all, and it makes me feel nostalgic for road tripping.Harris Newman has quite a CV: he seems to have a hand in just about every musical project to have come out of Montreal's alternative rock scene.You Black Emperor's Bruce Cawdron as Triple Burner, in addition to popping up as a guest musician on records by Esmerine and Hrsta.Further to that, Newman is the resident mastering engineer for bands as diverse as Wolf Parade and A Silver Mount Zion.Newman's fingerpicking technique isn't necessarily comparable to the rolling fluency of a Jack Rose or James Blackshaw, but he does romp through some inventive bluegrass figures, and in terms of both composition and sequencing Decorated is right up there with the best solo acoustic works from any contemporary artist.Harris Newman does plenty to win you over.Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player.Click here to get the latest flash player.Nice lair here on MySpace, Newman!Hey look forward to speaking with you..Hope you have a great week!MERRY CHRISTMASThanks so much!!Thanks for the mastering!Good news for us: we're going to launch a videoclip next january.Be free to catch a fish into strange world of ( e t r e ) !!!Nice guitar musik yesterday!!Thanks for your friendship!Yo Harris, canT' believe we weren't friend!You have some wonderful music.Amazing to see you in my friend request.Stone, payez ce que vous pouvez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hi Harris,Thank you for adding us!The work is dedicated to two artists: Angus MacLise and Jackson Pollock and inspired by their individual researchs; but at difference of the first two works, this time only two long tracks cover the disc (50 minutes).As all previous work on ( e t r e ), the reasons behind his music, turns this time in a more strong way: total discontinuity of sonorus levels, complete abolition of the forms and the same research of the uneasiness and abstration.This work is been pressed in 200 copies on the new (etre)'s label: Riz(h)ome Records and it has 7 different covers and 3 types of different paper inside.Hi Harris,We finally came around to release our album.Hey the cd sounds great!!!I'm back in France to work on Haunted Candy SHop's 2nd Album.We will bring our master to you again in a few months.HarrisThe split with Mauro is reviewed.Great to get to work with you again .Always a pleasant time to spend hours listening to your work."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.See all customer reviews...See all customer reviews...Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s.Try our music sampler to hear song samples from this album.FSCommands are received by VBScript in IE.Of("To view this content") !Images representing the various track states.Decorated is accessible solo guitar music for the experimentally minded, illustrating why Newman's take on the tradition sets him apart from the pack.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
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