The Music Of JC Harris

positively the most intelligent progressive rock on this here planet

positively the most intelligent progressive rock on this here planet

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Recording

Video – Who Do You Think?

New video of “Who Do You Think” from the opera Detroit. When is it cheating? Lennie Tristano. The Great Gatsby.

Roger CortonSo you posted another video from Detroit. And you said that we should discuss the differences between ‘the score’ and what went onto ‘the album’. OK, shoot.

JCHThe recordings I did for Detroit were not meant to make an ‘album’.

RCI always assumed it was meant for marketing purposes?

JCHPartly. Although partly it was to hear how things sounded! I’m not Haydn or Bernstein. I don’t stand in front of an orchestra every day. Some of the orchestrations? I had no idea how they were really gonna sound. Were they playable? I had the usual noob fear. But yeah, I had the knucklehead idea of doing a ‘Kickstarter’ and all those guys do elaborate ‘presentations’ […]

Now That’s Stereo!

As we prepare for the summer tour we ponder: whatever happened to space in recorded music? Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Lounge Music. Esquivel.

Roger CortonFirst date is coming up fast. How’s the practice going?

JCHPretty great. Haven’t broken one nail yet.

RCI’ll alert the media. You’re always talking about those little practical details. But is there anything more exciting we can tell fans about the shows?

JCHSorry, but that’s what I focus on. A broken nail isn’t just a comic punch line. It can ruin a show. Out of control nose hair is pretty bad too. But as far as ‘excitement’? Stereo. I’m gonna try to make everything wider than a mile.

RCYou’re covering Breakfast At Tiffany’s?

JCHI wish I was covering Audrey Hepburn right now. And the song is Moon River.

RCIsn’t she dead?

JCHYeah, but even when she was like seventy I woulda given some minor body part (one of the many that […]

Version Control

New versions of old epics. Beautiful Sounds Rev II and how to get it for free! Free! FREE!

Production Notes: Positive (2010)

Positive (2010) coverRemastering any album is a challenge quite different from actually making the original duh), but working on something you haven’t touched in many years is also quite the slice. A slice of about, oh…, three months of my life.

I approached this work with much the same tack I take on colonoscopies: I know it needs to be done. I’m thankful for the good result. I ‘m glad it only needs to be done once in a great while. Come to think of it, I was unconscious for my last colonoscopy; so perhaps I enjoyed that procedure even more. (Sorry, younger readers, even Mick Jagger has a colonoscopy. Lady Gaga probably has one every weekend just…well…just for kicks?)

Alas, I digress.

The point is–it ain’t the most fun thing in the world. Remember: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’? You have to re-live every mistake you ever made. Many times over. And in the case of Positive, the original tracks were recorded loooong before the release. […]

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