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Jessel was born in St. Vincent West Indies and was raised in Canada, NY and NJ. Most of his artistic melancholy can be attributed to rewriting Simon and Garfunkel lyrics at an early age. Several years later while attending various colleges in search of the perfect woman he published his first poem while releasing his first CD with the rock band Monkey Engine. He decided to quit studying English at Missouri State University in Springfield because the life of a starving artist was infinitely more fun than life in academia. Monkey Engine released the CD Squared Away and opened for several national acts but split up after reaching the regional level. What a bummer dude.
In the mid nineties, the new resurgence of country rock began to take root. Bands like Uncle Tupelo and The Jayhawks had a passionate audience in Springfield long before their popularity grew nationally. These "new" influences combined with the folk and classic rock influences of his delinquent adolescence began to take root. He quickly drew a passionate following in Springfield and decided it was time to take things to the big Apple with his new EP 'Death poems to the gods of America'. That year and a half was spent playing in the subway, gigging in various East village jaunts and subsisting on 211 and pork fried rice. At the tail end of the NYC stint he parlayed a deal with producer Eric Ambel (Joan Jett, Ryan Adams, Steve Earle). The songs from those sessions, along with his solo material, move effortlessly between roots rock, folk, garage and classic rock.
Disjointed characters living on the fringe form the lyrical foundation for songs that are the obvious result of a life lived dangerously close to his musical characters as well as the writings of Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, Larry Brown and Charles Bukowski.
In 2003 he moved back to MO and enthusiastically upgraded his diet to Bohemia and Beef Lo Mein while releasing two Cd's locally.
With the full length version of Death Poems slotted for release in 2010, a new seven inch coming out on Warner Sister's records, airplay on National Public Radio and an endless supplies of Steel Libido vitamins, the artist feels like it's high time that Jim O'Rourke cuts the bullshit and produces his next album. With the prospect of worldly success drawing nigh, the artist has become increasingly obsessed with pondering if he will remain a quasi blue collar plebeian or become a hackneyed elitist trafficker.
Chicago has become his present home base and the word on the street is he's hunkered down.
"A singer songwriter with the zeitgeist to reach his generation"
Pete Dulin Present Magazine KC MO
"Post-modern troubador, gritty storyteller, rock-and-roll songwriter, and unflinching poet, Jessel Harry is a
musician and writer that blends Bukowski and the bible with his personal experiences and social observations
into moving, gutsy commentary."
Pete Dulin Present Magazine KC MO
"Moody, Intense and Immediate, the five songs on 'Industry' weaves together harry's vision of the American West as desolate and at times threatening...the macho loner cowboy mindset once viewed as the archetype for the American male is now alone and grasping for meaning in the 21st century"
Chris DeRosierGo Magazine Springfield MO
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 10 years. Over the years, many artists and managers have asked me what the best way to break into the European music market is.
Here are some things you can do:
Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
Send me CDs and DVDs for review and set up an artist interview with me. All reviews and interviews will be submitted to the magazines I'm writing for. More information for which magazines I'm writing can be found at http://www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
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If you have more questions about the European music market or about any of the information I send to you today, please contact me at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de too.
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Today I would like to let you know about two print magazines in Germany I'm writing for.
"Living Line Dance", reporting about line dance and country music, and "Folk Magazine", reporting about folk and country music. The magazines are high respected in Europe. They offer you a good chance to publicize yourself in Europe and Germany.
For more information, please contact me at MySpace or send email to Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de with the headline "Advertise at Living Line Dance and Folk Magazine".
Heyy Jessel =) wow thank you so much for commenting on my art, i reallllly appreciate it. I definately want to go somehere with it. Thank you =) Uncle George said you will be coming up in October. we cant wait to see ya
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Thanks for the friendship.. Hope you enjoy the music and message behind it. My mission in life is to fight Human Trafficking. understanding the individual pain of others is sometimes to painful for an other individual to touch and that is frightening ...what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ...its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...please reach deeply into your heart and soul and please in 2009 join a movement or become a part of an event that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ...
We're now accepting submissions for our next mixtapes, please submit your info at www. coast2coastsubmissions. com for your chance to get a spot on the next mixtape!
We're now accepting submissions for our next mixtapes, please submit your info at www. coast2coastsubmissions. com for your chance to get a spot on the next mixtape!
Hello friends. We have a show this Friday at Subterranean and we'd love to see you there. We're playing with World Inferno (featuring Brian Viglione of Dresden Dolls & NIN) and Chris Connelly. So come on out, if you dare. err... if you please.
