Gavin Harrison

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Gavin Harrison at the Sonor Days in Bad Berleburg (May 29, 2010)

Gavin Richard Harrison (born May 28, 1963 in Harrow , then Middlesex ) is a British drummer.

Musical creation

Gavin Harrison has played mainly with the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree since February 2002 . He replaced Chris Maitland after being suggested by Richard Barbieri to Steven Wilson , the band's singer, guitarist and founder . At first he was only intended as a studio musician for the 2002 album In Absentia , but eventually he was accepted as a permanent member of the band. In 2008 he was the second drummer for King Crimson alongside Pat Mastelotto , Robert Fripp , Adrian Belew and Tony Levin on their tour of the USA . In 2011 he worked again with Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins - A King Crimson Project “A Scarcity Of Miracles”. He accompanied the King Crimson concert tours in 2014 and 2016, where he formed the triple drum line- up for the stage shows with Pat Mastelotto and Bill Rieflin . Various live albums were released for these tours. In 2016 he was the drummer on The Pineapple Thief's album "Your Wilderness" . In the same year, an album called "Dizrhythmia Too" was released in collaboration with Jakko Jakszyk , Danny Thompson and the Indian percussionist Pandit Dinesh .

Harrison has published two drum textbooks , Rhythmic Illusions (1999) and Rhythmic Perspectives (2002). He also recorded the two drum training videos Rhythmic Visions (2002) and Rhythmic Horizons (2006) in his London studio and published them on DVD. In 1997 his solo CD "Sanity & Gravity" was released. Another solo CD entitled "Cheating The Polygraph" was released in 2015.

Harrison is also a sought-after studio drummer. In addition to his work at Porcupine Tree and his solo album, he can be heard on the following recordings:


1986:

  • Iggy Pop "Ritz NYC Live"
  • Iggy Pop "Real Wild Child Live"
  • Eddie and The Tide
  • Zerra One "The Domino Effect"

1987:

  • Dizrhythmia "Dizrhythmia"
  • The Kings Of Oblivion "Big Fish Popcorn"
  • Sam Brown "Stop"
  • Froon "Froon"

1988:

  • Tom Robinson & Jakko "We've Never Had It So Good"
  • Black "Comedy"
  • Sarah Jane Morris "Can't Get To Sleep"
  • Gail Ann Dorsey "The Corporate World"

1989:

  • BJ Cole "Transparent Music"
  • Shari Belafonte "Shari"
  • Yasuaki Shimizu "Aduna"

1990:

  • Lene Lovich "March"
  • Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin "The Big Idea"
  • Mieko Shimizu "A Road Of Shells"
  • Eugenio Finardi "La Forza Dell'amore"
  • Donna Gardier "I'll Be There"

1991:

  • Incognito "Inside Life"
  • Eugenio Finardi "Millennio"
  • Camouflage "Meanwhile"
  • Miss Thi "Lover"
  • Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin "Spin"

1992:

  • Alice "Mezzogiorno Sulle Alpi"
  • Kevin Ayers "Still Life With Guitar"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Assieme"
  • Claudio Baglioni "AncorAssieme"
  • Fiorella Mannoia "I Treni A Vapore"

1993:

  • Raf "Cannibali"
  • Cavani "Alza La Testa"
  • Franco Battiato "Caffe 'de la Paix"
  • Chizuko Yoshihiro "Conscious Mind"

1994:

  • Jakko "Kingdom Of Dust"
  • Richard Barbieri / Tim Bowness "Flame"
  • Jakko "Mustard Gas And Roses"
  • Sharon Rose "Never Be The Same"

1995:

  • Mick Karn "The Tooth Mother"
  • Paul Young "Grazing In The Grass" Live
  • Eros Ramazzotti “Più bella cosa” Live
  • BJ Cole "Heart Of The Moment"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Io Sono Qui"
  • David Devant & His Spirit Wife "Ginger"
  • Franco Battiato "L'Imboscata"

1996:

  • Jakko "Are My Ears On Wrong?"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Attori e Spettatori"
  • Manfred Mann "Soft Vengeance"
  • Franco Battiato "L'ombra della Luce"

1997:

  • Jakko "Road To Ballina"
  • Devogue "Devogue"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Anime In Gioco"
  • Lisa Stansfield "Never gonna give you up" Live
  • Saro Cosentino "Ones & Zeros"

1998:

  • Franco Battiato "Gommalacca"
  • Claudio Baglioni "A-Live"

1999:

  • Lisa Stansfield "Swing"
  • Shooter "Life's A Bitch"
  • Shooter "..And Your Point?"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Viaggiatore sulla coda del tempo"

2000:

  • Lewis Taylor "Lewis 2"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Acustico"

2001:

  • Lisa Stansfield "831 - Change"
  • Peter Cox "Flame Still Burns"
  • Angela Baraldi "Rosasporco"
  • Heraldo Zuniga "Triangulo De Musgo"

2002:

  • Manolo Garcia "Nunca El Tiempo Es Perdido"
  • Patty Pravo "Radio Station"
  • Sheila Nicholls "Wake"

2003:

  • Claudio Baglioni "Sono Io"

2004:

  • Blackfield "Blackfield"
  • Rob Cowen / Beverly Craven "Lady Advertiser"

2005:

  • Claudio Baglioni "Cresendo e Cercando"
  • Stefano Panunzi "Timelines"

2006:

  • Jakko "The Bruised Romantic Glee Club"
  • Claudio Baglioni "Quelli degli Altri Tutti Qui"

2007:

  • Carlo Fimiani "Too Early"
  • Steve Thorne "Emotional Creatures part 2"
  • Three Blind Mice "Good Grief"
  • Gavin Harrison & 05Ric "Drop"
  • Blackfield "Blackfield II"

2008:

  • No-Man "Schoolyard Ghosts"
  • Ed Poole "ED4"
  • Richard Barbieri "Stranger Inside"
  • Steven Wilson "Insurgentes"

2009:

  • Gavin Harrison & 05Ric "Circles"
  • OSI "Blood"
  • Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin "Green and Blue"
  • Paolo Gianolio "Pane e Nuvole"

2011:

  • Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins - A King Crimson Project "A Scarcity Of Miracles"

2012:

  • Gavin & 05Ric 2012 "The Man Who Sold Himself"
  • Storm Corrosion 2012 "Storm Corrosion"
  • Paolo Gianolio 2012 "Tribu 'di Note"
  • OSI 2012 "Fire Make Thunder"

2015:

  • King Crimson "Live At The Orpheum"

2016:

  • The Pineapple Thief "Your Wilderness"
  • King Crimson "Live In Toronto"
  • King Crimson "Radical Action (To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind)"
  • Dizrhythmia "Dizrhythmia Too"
  • Nick Johnston "Remarkably Human"

style

Gavin Harrison originally comes from the jazz field, as he came to play the drums through his father, who is himself a professional jazz musician. He started practicing hi-hats when he was 6 and got his first own drum kit when he was 11. His very clean drumming is often described with virtuosity, progressiveness and softness.

Gavin Harrison is known among drummers as the “psychologist of rhythm”, as he uses techniques such as rhythmic shifts, metric modulations , rhythmic overlays, syncopation , polyrhythmics and many other, not exactly commonplace techniques, the great virtuosity, as well as a certain independence of thinking and require playing.

Harrison himself noted down techniques, concepts and practices since his youth and incorporated these decades-old notes into his textbooks. Harrison became known through rhythmic illusions, which were given a face through his books and educational films.

Awards

In July 2007, Gavin Harrison was voted "best progressive drummer of the year" by readers of Modern Drummer magazine . In the years 2008 to 2010 he repeated this success, four years in a row.

Equipment

Drums - Sonor: SQ2 (Blue Tribal finish).

  • 8x7 "rack tom
  • 10x8 "rack tom
  • 12x9 "rack tom
  • 15x13 "floor tom
  • 18x15 "floor tom
  • 22x15 "bass drum
  • 14x5.25 "Protean GH Signature 6 ply Birch Snare
  • 12x5 "Protean GH Signature 6 ply Birch Snare

Cymbals - Zildjian

  • 22 "Swish Knocker without rivets
  • 16 "Oriental China Trash
  • 5 custom-made chimes
  • 13 "K hi-hats
  • 19 "A Thin Crash
  • 7 "custom crash bell
  • 17 "A Thin Crash
  • 20 "K ride
  • 19 "K Custom Dark Crash
  • 12 "Oriental China Trash
  • 18 "Z Custom China

Cymbals are listed in the order they appear from left to right.

Drum Heads - Remo

  • Toms: (8 ", 10", 12 ", 15", 18 ") Coated Emperors Vintage - batter, Clear Ambassadors - resonant
  • Bass Drum: (22 ") Powerstroke 3 Clear Batter, Standard Sonor Head - resonant
  • Snares - Coated CS - batter, Hazy Ambassador - resonant

hardware

  • Gibraltar Hardware Rack two side racks mounting toms, cymbals and mics
  • Tama Speed ​​Cobra Bass Drum Pedals and Cobra Clutch
  • Porter & Davies BC2 Tactile Sound Monitoring
  • S-Hoops fitted to all toms and snare drums

Sticks - Vic Firth

  • Vic Firth Gavin Harrison signature model SHAR

Electronics - Korg Wavedrum Dynamic Percussion Synthesizer.

Web links

Individual references and references

  1. ↑ Gavin Harrison. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ see list of tours ( memento of the original from January 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Harrison's website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.drumset.demon.co.uk
Porcupine Tree
Chris Maitland


Studio albums

Tarquin's Seaweed Farm • The Nostalgia Factory • On the Sunday of Life • Up the Downstair • The Sky Moves Sideways • Signify • Stupid Dream • Lightbulb Sun • In Absentia • Deadwing • Fear of a Blank Planet • The Incident

Extended plays

Love, Death and Mussolini • Voyage 34 • Staircase Infinities • Moonloop • Nile Recurring

Live albums

Spiral Circus • Coma Divine • The Complete BBC Sessions • XM • Warszawa • XMII • We Lost the Skyline • Anesthetize • Octane Twisted

Compilation albums

Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape • Insignificance • Metanoia • Recordings • Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991–1997 • Out Absentia • Recordings II

Video albums

Arriving Somewhere… • Anesthetize

King Crimson
Jakko Jakszyk • Robert Fripp • Tony Levin • Mel Collins • Pat Mastelotto • Gavin Harrison • Bill Rieflin • Jeremy Stacey


Studio albums

In the Court of the Crimson King • In the Wake of Poseidon • Lizard • Islands • Larks' Tongues in Aspic • Starless and Bible Black • Red • Discipline • Beat • Three of a Perfect Pair • Thrak • the construction of light • The Power to believe

Extended plays

Vrooom • Level Five • Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With

personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Gavin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrison, Gavin Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British drummer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrow , Middlesex