Harry Flowers - vocals, instruments, production; Others - occassional contributions.
Influences
SOUNDS
Art of Fighting, Mike Oldfield, The Pixies, Grant McLennan, David Bowie, Roxy Music, The Church, Martin Phillips and The Chills, Kate Bush, Suede, Pulp, The Smiths, REM, Arcade Fire, The Go-Betweens, Ride, The Hummingbirds, Blur, The Strange Death Of Liberal England, Folding For Air, Augie March, The Cure, Falco, Robert Forster, Isidore, Kevin Ayers, Radiohead, Cornershop, Mohair Halo, XTC, Steve Kilbey, The Stares, The Aloha Pussycats, Syd Barrett, Not Drowning Waving, The Byrds, Marty Willson-Piper, My Bloody Valentine, Dead Can Dance, Leonard Cohen, The Ergot Derivative, Mick Harvey, Adam and the Ants, Stephen Cummings, Joy Division, Serge Gainsbourg, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of The Worlds, The Kinks, Duran Duran, Lindy Morrison, Tyranosaurus Rex, Perry Farrell, Pop Will Eat Itself, Chris Knox, Paul Simon, John Lennon, the brothers Finn, Bobby Dylan, The Sisters of Mercy, Mike Batt, The Albion Country Band, Bauhaus, The Triffids, Flock, Miles Davis, Donovan, etc., etc.,
WORDS
Mervyn Peake, J.K. Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, Clive Barker, Jeanette Winterson, John Milton, Dorothy Porter, Italo Calvino, William Faulkner, Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Jean Paul Satre, Alasdair Gray, Sir John Mandeville, Robert Holdstock, Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi, Leonard Cohen (again), Will Self, Angela Carter, Rjurik Davidson, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, Simon Parker, Lautremont, Paul Verlaine, Patrick McGrath, Johnny Keats, Quentin Crisp, etc., etc.,
IMAGES
Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Xul Solar, Max Ernst, Jacek Yerka, Giorgio de Chirico, Oskar Kokoschka, Aubrey Beardsley, Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Mikhail Vrubel, Francisco Goya, etc., etc., etc.,
Harry Flowers is an Australian musician and writer who now lives in England.
Here's an apparently random list of things that make his head spin like a top:
metaphysics, plentiful wine, rambling conversations, trees, stones, clouds, the earth, the heavens, transcendental experiences, prosaic repetition, deja vu, cats, rats, the underworld, dead cosmologies, primordial forests, ideas that didn't work, forgotten fashions, the insights of small children, depth psychology, old people, smoke, decaying civilisations, signs and symbols, coincidence, forgetfulness, magnetism, hierarchy, scale, phase transitions, urban histories, memory of place, fugue states, sudden lapses in perspective, sex, time travel, pointless imaginings, mushrooms, la belle epoch, surrealism, art nouveau, guitars, antiquities, curios, nostalgia, moments alone, bacchanal celebrations, street festivals, progressive politics, cabaret, certain species of cactus, the glasswork of Lalique, time, space, the divine, the mundane, and everything inbetween.
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Hi, thanks for being friends. Maestro is fantastic. Since I heard it for the first time, I thought it is a lost Church song from the Remote Luxury/Heyday time. Could hear it every day. Great work. Best wishes from The Blue Chairs. Juergen
harold d. flowers, i just listened again and again to your Volumes track. you live constantly in my car stereo. now i'm off to read that passing of the minotaurs story..
hi harry , well you have been busy . nice to here your new stuff.. reminds me of the old days in clifton hill . I will be over soon, hoping to catch up wit ye.. gedrock
good work with the new tune.... however(there's always a however isn't there) ... i'm a little concerned about some of the imagery that you are evoking. grey weather, rainstorms, spooky churches, gravestones... well I can only put it into verse
ashes to ashes moth to moth harry's turning into a funny little goth.
Hello, I hope you are well. Thank you for your support and for being my friend here at Myspace! I wanted to tell you some exciting news--I have a new distributor for my solo CD, “Chaos and Wonder”! It’s now available online through Pollyanna Cowgirl Records. It’s a cool indie label with lots of other great music in addition to my CD. Please check it out, as many of the CDs on sale there are going to find a cure for ALS.
