Gavin Harrison & 05Ric "Drop" album features
Robert Fripp
Dave Stewart
Gary Sanctuary
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Sanity & Gravity features:
Keyboards: Gary Sanctuary, Dave Stewart, Richard Barbieri, Lyndon Connah.
Bass: Mick Karn.
Vocals and Sarangi: Sultan Khan.
Trumpet: John Thirkell.
Guitar: Heitor Pereira, Jakko Jakszyk.
Ewi: Ian Kirkham.
Drums: Gavin Harrison.
I wanted to give you some info about my project with 05Ric.
The first album is called "Drop" and there are 2 tracks are from that album in the player above and it can be bought in as a full on CD or as FLAC/mp3 download from the link below. The second and newest album is called "Circles" and there is a preview above. It will soon be available from:
http://www.burningshed.com/store/gavinharrison/
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"Drop" my first collaboration with singer and Extended Range Bass player 05Ric. With contributions from Robert Fripp, Dave Stewart and Gary Sanctuary. 9 carefully crafted songs combined with some great multi layered guitars, vocal harmonies and quite unique rhythms - even if I say so myself!!!
http://www.myspace.com/gavinharrison05ric
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Here's some info about my first solo album Sanity & Gravity. You can hear some tracks from it in the above player "Aim" "Dog Day" and "Witness"
Faced with the prospect of making a 'solo' drum album I decided I would take a more experimental approach to playing my instrument, rather than make a record of fast flashy solos and fills to try and show off my technique. Drums traditionally have a purpose in music to supply and hold a tempo. After all there isn't any really definable pitches coming out of the drumset that you would want to try to play melodies on in the normal sense.
But I felt there was still a way to express emotion from the drums played with the attitude of "blowing" on a saxophone or "twiddling" around on a piano. These "squiggle" pieces or sections (as I call them) would start with me recording the drums on their own without any pre- defined tune, arrangement, or tempo.
The only thing I would have as a guide would be the engineer signaling to me how many minutes had past because I couldn't really tell how much time was passing whilst I was in this "liquid" state of mind. Of course listening back, many of the pieces turned out to be just too random for me - but there were some - that I felt had a good balance compositionaly between playing time and playing expressively "out there in space" on the drums.
These pieces would then form the basis of a new composition with which the brilliant keyboardist Gary Sanctuary would "react" with and overdub to. Dave Stewart did an equally great thing as a " drum and piano solo " section in a piece called "Big News For A Small Day".So we ended up with tunes where (in certain sections) the drums were the "leading" voice (in a kind of melodic but non solo way) and the rest of the composition was built up around the original drum performance - as tempo based or random as that was!
Other, more groove based tunes started life as "jams" between Mick Karn, Gary Sanctuary and myself. I wanted to try and find some more alternative stranger types of groove. Then other musicians would come and play on top / underneath / or around the various rhythms and "squiggles" (when they occurred) and I would have chance to edit their collective performances into a kind of "collage" procedure.
Thank you for adding me once again, Gavin! Hopefully I'll see you in spring with PT.. well, Steven said PT will be back again early next year. He said that in NYC..