Nick E. Harris has spent the last twenty years dedicating his life to music. Balanced somewhere between the pulls of being a music teacher, producer, guitar tutor, touring musician and multi-instrumentalist in various projects, Nick has been consistently and committedly honing his craft. Years ago, having left his job as a London primary school music teacher and escaped to the remote landscapes of New Zealand to live a frugal and stoic life, Nick E. Harris spent a year dedicating every waking hour to refining his guitar playing and songwriting, while busking to pay the bills. When he emerged again and returned to London, it was evident that this decision had paid off; after working with Ben Lovett of Communion Music, he self-released his debut album ‘Chimera’. Since then the guitarist has released his second album ‘The Tall Trees’, seeing a significant development of both intricacy and style, combing beguiling vocals with acoustic guitar playing that combines the old with the progressive. Recorded entirely at night by eminent Brighton producer Nick Trepka (Speech Debelle, Emmy the Great, Kieran Leonard) the album features a diverse orchestra of supporting instruments from accordions, horns, flutes and string sections, to tribal chanting and percussion. His new album ‘And now the night…’ is due for release later this year on Folklore Records.
