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 Deerness is a knowing construct.
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