Harry Stafford es más que conocido en el mundillo del llamado Post Punk por ser la cara de Inca Babies durante más de 35 años, más en 2015 decide lanzar su primer álbum solista, Guitar Shaped Hammers, tomando éste nombre para su banda de acompañantes, integrada actualmente por Rob Haynes (The Membranes, Inca Babies), Kevin Davy (Lamb, Cymande), Andy Mills, y Vincent O’Brien, con quienes ha preparado Gothic Urban Blues, su segundo larga duración que estará disponible el próximo 27 de Marzo, y en tanto se llega la fecha del lanzamiento, nos presenta el primer extracto de éste material, mismo que podrás encontrar en plataformas, como sencillo digital, el próximo 7 de Febrero.

It was important to reassemble these musicians again as there was a lot of ground we hadn’t covered. I had about fourteen songs and selected ten to be on the record. They were songs I had been playing around the bars of Manchester in order to hone into a neat arrangement.
I rehearsed with Rob and Vincent and we laid down a foundation, allowing Nick and Kevin to add their unique elements. Their parts were there to compete and yet complement each other. Kevin is a hugely in-demand jazz musician, who graces the funk of Cymande and the smooth grooves of Lamb, not to mention his jazz workshops in London. I wanted Kevin to radiate his love of Miles Davis and send a wave of goosebumps and steely soul through the spine of this sound. Nick, with a guitar born of jagged punk and sinister drones, was to create a brittle edge to balance the beauty.
Era importante volver a reunir a estos músicos ya que había mucho terreno que no habíamos cubierto. Tenía unas catorce canciones y seleccioné diez para el disco. Eran canciones que había estado tocando en los bares de Manchester para afinarlas en un arreglo ordenado.
Ensayé con Rob y Vincent y establecimos una base, permitiendo a Nick y Kevin agregar sus elementos únicos. Sus partes estaban allí para competir y, sin embargo, se complementan entre sí. Kevin es un músico de jazz muy solicitado, que honra el funk de Cymande y los suaves ritmos de Lamb, sin mencionar sus talleres de jazz en Londres. Quería que Kevin irradiara su amor por Miles Davis y enviara una oleada de escalofrío y alma de acero como columna vertebral de este sonido. Nick, con una guitarra nacida del áspero punk y drones siniestros, crearía un borde frágil para equilibrar la belleza.

Harry Stafford

She Just Blew Me Away es el reconocimiento a aquellos romances pasajeros que, si bien siempre diferentes en forma, duración e intensidad, cumplen con un requisito fundamental para establecerse y diferenciarse de aquellos crímenes de soledad en nombre del amor.

She Just Blew Me Away is dedicated to Jim the singer, who would tell me stories of his love affairs. He would begin with. “I mean, she just blew me away”. And and how did it end? I would ask. “Ah well, she just blew me away.»
She Just Blew Me Away está dedicada a Jim el cantante, quien me contaba historias de sus amoríos. Él comenzaba con un «Quiero decir, ella simplemente me voló». ¿Y cómo terminó? le preguntaba. “Ah, bueno, ella me voló.»

Harry Stafford

Harry Stafford, She Just Blew Me Away…

There’s a dent in my head where the drunks took a shy, there’s a part of my tail thinks it’s gotta be a fly
Optimistic guy with a shakedown suit, face first in the bar without the aid of a chute
Got a plate in his head attracting airborne metal splinters, mixed up in the mess of confused petal fingers
She got me with her eyes and as her hand held mine, exploding tiny clusters say the world is thine.
She just blew me away
Somewhere in this head is a plate of buzzing knaves attracted to the canteen in the gaping open graves
Solo to Mars and back behind the moon, space between my ears and into orbit too soon
She just blew me away
On the other side of town with yet more airborne metal splinters, mixed up in the mess of confused petal fingers
She got me with her eyes and as her hand held mine, exploding tiny clusters say the world is thine.
She just blew me away
I guess this is the end seldom friend, I guess this the broken voodoo trend
She said I think it’s has gone as far as it can go, she had no idea I’d been further than drifting planets flow . . . . . She just blew me away. . . . . . . . .

She Just Blew Me Away