Harry Deerness - Harry Deerness - Spillage Fete records - 2

Harry Deerness' debut was handed to me anonymously in a Kings Cross pub. On-line information says it's one Kevin Cormack, sampling cassettes of home recordings given to him in Orkney by a professional carer, who found them in the home of her client, Harry Deerness.

The album sounds like an old people's home entertainer playing Stockhausen, equipped with only a Casio organ, a clarinet, an accordion, and some noises taped out of the window. It's a fun curio, but the likes of Loren Connors (see here) are real outsider artists, and Deerworth is a knowing construct.

(6/11/11)