CHRIS HARRINGTON: EP

Chris Harrington

EP

© 2006 ChrisHarrington (634479278587)

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English Singer Songwriter mixing beautiful finger style guitar with subdued vocals telling stories of trees shivering and finding a place to belong

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Chris Harrington is a 22 year old singer songwriter from England just outside London. Just far enough for the surrounding trees and fields to influence his truly organic sound and to make his music rootsy and magical. With stories of the land taking it's natural cycle and finding a place to belong.
All tracks were recorded over the space of 4 days in his bedroom/music room. Using an array of unusual guitar tunings to create a blanket of harmony from the guitar.In true tradition no overdubs were used just 2 mics in a room and Chris with his guitar,

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  • Chris Harrington creates a unique kind of magical folk music
    author: Overplay.co.uk

    With the delicate pinpoint accuracy of a heart surgeon and the universal loveliness of a marshmallow tree that blossoms all year round, Chris Harrington creates a unique kind of magical folk music. The Essex-based singer, songwriter and college guitar teacher, sets out with a set of tools simpler, even, than the super-stripped-down sounds of Jose Gonzalez or Stephen Fretwell. Across the four tracks here, there is nothing other than a few repeated guitar phrases and casually meaningful vocals. But it’s plenty sweet enough to hypnotise. “Sands Of Time” consists of very little more than a winding acoustic guitar and the slightly sad, deadpan soulfulness of Chris’s voice. But, as he intones, “we are like an endless sea”, the whole thing just hangs suspended in space like one long gorgeous moment. Floatation tank ambient, anyone? “Seasons” has a marginally more pastoral sound as the guitar flows under a series of snapshots of the natural world. Trees “stand and shiver” as if captured in time-lapse photography and there’s that reassuring feeling of everything coming and going in its natural order. Such as the relief you get when you realise that you won’t have to scrape your windscreen every single morning of the year, that sort of thing. “Tryin’ To Belong” is, once again, ever-so-slightly-more urgent as simple rhyming couplets bounce around the blissful hum of the central guitar. In fact, things only get more involved on the closing “Sea Of Song”. Lyrically and musically more expansive, Chris’s six-string gently rises and swoops like a kestrel on the wind. It’s a sound so graceful and organic that David Attenborough should do a documentary about him. Hard to believe he comes from the same county as The Prodigy. by overplay

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