Kevin Harrison

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1. Hailing from Nuneaton, England, Kevin Harrison recorded both solo and collaboratively throughout the late '70s and early '80s. While his early recordings would come out in hyper-limited editions or go unreleased for decades, Inscrutably Obvious remains his sole LP – a lost gem of Britain's '80s cassette culture and DIY bedroom aesthetics. Kevin Harrison's music is guitar orientated. But treated and mutated. Harrison is no ordinary guitar hero: his playing shimmers like light reflected on water. His work is reminiscent of a cross between Brian Eno, Michael Rother and Eric Random. While in the ambient field, it balances a lot more in the direction of contemporary electronics and a heavier sound. Nevertheless, his influences are very clear. A minimal psychedelicist at heart, Harrison's is the music of the hypnotic state, of dream and trance. It's core is an obvious affection for the work of Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Kraftwerk and The Normal tempered with an awareness of oriental rhythms and harmonies which give the elemental electronics a warmer, human touch. With Harrison's deft handling his squeaks and buzzes, his synthesized loop tables and his drum machines "Inscrutably Obvious" seems like it will prove horribly inaccessible. But once properly investigated it offers a sparklingly seductive selection of tracks wholeheartedly recommended to anybody looking for entertainment from the avant-garde. Chas de Whalley on Harrison: "No guitar heroes next 'cause it's Kevin Harriso

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Get Lost VI mixed by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

Inscrutably Obvious

Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984

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Cosmic Disco? Cosmic Rock!

Perspectives And Distortion: Cherry Red Rarities 1981

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typhoon portrait of the electronic years

Spectro Verdu Est Mort?

Perspectives and Distortion

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"Cosmic Disco?!" Cosmic Rock!!!"

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The Cherry Red Records Singles Collection - Part 8

Sound Cosmodel

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