Madden & Harris

Madden & Harris were the Sydney, Australia-based duo of music instructor/multi-instrumentalist Peter Harris and his guitarist student Dave Madden. In 1974 they released a decent solitary around the Albert label, “Keep in mind Me”/”A STRAIGHTFORWARD Track,” which revealed their mild make of folk-rock, greatly affected by both English folk-rock and English progressive rock and roll. They went inside a somewhat less pop-oriented path for their just recording, 1975’s Fool’s Heaven, on which nonmembers Paul Baker (bass) and Doug Gallagher (drums) also performed. The LP was released as an exclusive pressing, most likely numbering just a few hundred copies, independently Jasmine label. Harris explained their sound towards the Australian publication Go-Set as “extremely formal in ways, with plenty of traditional constructions and harmonies, most likely more affected by 16th hundred years harmonies than anything latest.” He continuing, “Our music is situated halfway between a 16th hundred years chamber audio with light jazz-influenced breaks.” In fact, the music wasn’t quite as uncommon as that, nonetheless it was a good if relatively derivative United kingdom folk-rock-styled album, shaded by a reasonable bit of impact from both traditional music and intensifying rock and roll. Judicious synthesizers helped supply the arrangements a far more contemporary structure than many a far more basic United kingdom folk-rock-styled album, as well as the vocal harmonies and wistful melodies had been being among the most audible manifestations of the classical impact. They never released another documenting, although Harris got done a single record for the Ritz Gramophone label in 1974. Understandably, their music provides seldom been noticed beyond Australia, nonetheless it a minimum of became more available to another generation with a Compact disc reissue that added both edges from the pre-LP one as bonus paths.