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Singer-Songwriter James Harker Releases New Single & Music Video
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London (PRWEB) November 23, 2011
Single Released on iTunes
James Harker’s three-year journey to produce his debut album The Red Room began at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival. He performed regularly in a dingy room at the foot of North Bridge, which had been converted into the ‘Red Room’: a sumptuous boudoir for immersive, avant-garde music and drama.
The Red Room, and the whole bubble surrounding it was a chaotic, volatile experience. Reality had been barred entry, and consequently everything and everyone became intensified and unstable, says James. On the one hand, it had been huge fun. But when I came up for air I was conscious of so many things: the fickleness of identity, the unpredictability of love, the conflict of emotion and morality; but, as Boy George pointed out, theres an art to feeling sorry for yourself. And so, James began to document his feelings in the 12 songs that came to constitute The Red Room.
A year later James found himself with a window of time to record the album. It was now or never, but he was also completely broke. So, he hooked-up with a string quartet at his old university, and with an old school-friend who had a semi-professional studio in the Derbyshire countryside. No money would change hands, and James made ends meet working as a restaurant piano player, an actor, and a short film soundtrack composer.