Jason Anthony Harris

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"A voice magnificent and morose, lost in a world of single being in performance." [Deli Magazine] After fronting various bands in New York over the past few years, including the instrumental rock band The Grand March, Jason Anthony Harris went solo with 2009's "A Record," an atmospheric & largely acoustic-based album. His low croon returned from a kind of hibernation, often only accompanied by the steady strum of an acoustic guitar.

Harris' current output has evolved and broadened in scope to create more percussive, layered and electronic pieces, sometimes completely improvised before an audience. His live experiments with found-objects, vocoder, radio noise, and loop manipulation have provided a new method for exploring themes once tackled with only guitar and voice. A recent performance found him beating and scraping a wooden chair across the stage to create a bed of dissonant clatter to chant over.

Harris is often accompanied by one of several musical accomplices, be it with hauntingly melodic piano, jagged saxophone, or inventive electric guitar. Members of Afuche, Flotilla, Girls In Trouble, Scurvy and Sactuaries contributed to his sophomore album,& [Read more]
"A voice magnificent and morose, lost in a world of single being in performance." [Deli Magazine] After fronting various bands in New York over the past few years, including the instrumental rock band The Grand March, Jason Anthony Harris went solo with 2009's "A Record," an atmospheric & largely acoustic-based album. His low croon returned from a kind of hibernation, often only accompanied by the steady strum of an acoustic guitar.

Harris' current output has evolved and broadened in scope to create more percussive, layered and electronic pieces, sometimes completely improvised before an audience. His live experiments with found-objects, vocoder, radio noise, and loop manipulation have provided a new method for exploring themes once tackled with only guitar and voice. A recent performance found him beating and scraping a wooden chair across the stage to create a bed of dissonant clatter to chant over.

Harris is often accompanied by one of several musical accomplices, be it with hauntingly melodic piano, jagged saxophone, or inventive electric guitar. Members of Afuche, Flotilla, Girls In Trouble, Scurvy and Sactuaries contributed to his sophomore album,"Under The Island," released April 2011.

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