Wayne Harriss

Wayne Harriss“An innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut” – Pieces of Gold

Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped Aerospace, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of Motor Eye.
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Discography

Aerospace


May 2006

Born from a relationship breakup and its chaos, post overseas travel, Aerospace is a textural, introspective journey. It is an album that one aurally immerses in. The whole album was an unplanned montage of musical pieces. It explores the simplicity of rich, repetitive instrumental refrains and moods, and layers them with emotive, melodic vocal lines. It doesnt try to impress the listener with clever arrangements but draws the listener. If they wish to. It is ambience without being ambient. It is an album of places and spaces.

 

Biography

Wayne Harriss is an ex-Perth-based singer-guitarist-engineer-producer-composer-draftsman. Previously a member  of rock-newcountry-jazz band Resin he explores sonic worlds in his home studio. Projects include the melodic, soundscaped Aerospace, and, with Stu Medley, also a member of Resin, the collaborative dream-jazz-pop of Motor Eye.

The process starts from spot-fires, overdubs are fine-tuned on the fly then submerge to the next. Colours awash, yet throughout, each sound is defined, simple, has a place. Sitting exactly placed, between exactly placed speakers, send the lights down, and dive, swim, even drown in sub-marine worlds, weightless shapes, staring at the sun from underwater.

 

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Reviews

  • “Eat Your Friends” Compilation Reviewed at DOA

    “Over almost a decade, Hidden Shoal records developed a reputation as a consistently innovative and experimental music label, giving to us music of remarkable qualities whether it was the instrumental excursions of Gilded, the blissed-out indie of My Majestic Star, the electronica of Marcus Mehr, the alt.folk stylings of Kramies – the HSR list of significant talents was a lengthy one. I say was, as in 2014 or thereabouts, the Hidden Shoal label underwent a reorganisation of sorts, and it began to seem that one of the more influential Australian record labels of the recent past was itself going into hiding. Perhaps so, although only to return refreshed, renewed, invigorated and with its varying artistic visions intact – the Eat Your Friends compilation proves that the Hidden Shoal label is properly with us again.

    One thing I’ve found when reviewing compilations is that not infrequently, when I put them into my music players, the tracks separate instead of remaining in their album folder, and that has happened with my copy of Eat Your Friends, encouraging me to view each of the tracks as a single release rather than view the album itself as a cohesive whole. Then there’s the fact that only some of its contributors are already known to me and so, ditching some of my preconceptions about what it’s going to sound like, I began listening to the 11 tracks in a random sequence, and prepared for the unexpected.

    Firstly, there’s singer/songwriter Erik Nilsson’s “Moksha Can Wait”, a song which electronic composer Marcus Mehr has taken and adapted to his subtly developed production sound, a track that begins almost inaudibly and builds to a staggering crescendo of soaring, roaring electronic sound and with Nilsson’s guitar and piano providing a counterpoint to Mehr’s swirling atmospherics. The ambient chill of City Of Satellites is given an added gloss by Tim Manzano, although I’m not so sure what he’s actually done with the track – it does sound a lot like the City Of Satellites I know from their Machine Is My Animal album, although as the track progresses and the rhythm and bass begin to disintegrate into a dubby conclusion it seems more apparent where Manzano has left his mark. Arc Lab’s “Through The Burning Glass” is remixed by Glanko, beginning with a club-level bassline before levelling into a noir tinged synth epic. And just when you thought the tracks on Eat Your Friends were entirely instrumentals, Rew perform a cover version of Umpire’s “Green Light District” and they do it with a vocal, alongside the strings and crashing cymbals and haltingly uncertain rhythms, a highlight of an album each of whose tracks is in one or another way remarkable.”

    – DOA

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  • Wayne Harriss “Aerospace” Reviewed at Pieces of Gold

    “It’s clear that Harriss is a craftsman. On his debut solo album he presents a kind of thoughtful melancholy across it’s 10 track breadth… There is an innate sense of space and melody inhabit these songs. This is dream-pop at its best and a wonderful debut.”

    – Pieces of Gold

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Licensing

Wayne Harriss’s music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please contact us with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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