Hi.
I'm Harri. I'm a musician and songwriter from County Durham, UK. Nice to meet ye.
I've been writing songs and making music for the past 10 years, and have been gigging and touring the UK for the past 2 years, which has been a big learning curve and massive joy.
I am excited to announce the release of my second full-length album Mazes, due to be released on our album launch tour in autumn of 2019. Many of these songs are inspired by my surroundings here in the North East of England; drawing from its beautiful, rugged coastlines and hills, and its sprawling towns and cities. Often my songs are inflected with a strong sense of home, belonging and community, as I am so proud belong here. Other songs from Mazes were written on the Isle of Harris in Scotland, the most beautiful island community in the Outer Hebrides to which I feel great ties, affection and nostalgia.
In making this album, we'll have the privilege of working with the masterful Ian Stephenson of Simpson Street Studios, who will record, mix and master our work. I'm also delighted to say that we'll be working with two of the UK's finest folk musicians, Ciaran Algar and Toby Shaer, who will be adding their magic to the record.
The album will be an independent release, and I'm pouring all of my creative efforts into the arrangements and production, with the help of my husband and musical partner Rich Endersby-Marsh. We have developed and honed these songs together, and they feel very precious and exciting.
The process of recording, mixing, mastering, designing, distributing and promoting an album often feels incredibly huge. So, in order to make this record as beautiful and well-executed as possible, we are asking for your help and support.
What We Need & What We're offering
In order to bring to the best music that we can possibly muster, we are giving you the opportunity to pre-order the album (WAHOO), and numerous other bits of bonus material such as tote bags, artwork, handwritten lyrics, song commissions and even house concerts if you'd like us to fill your humble abode with music.
By you purchasing these goodies, you'll also be an integral part of the Mazes release. We will be able to record professionally in a wonderful studio, get it mixed by an incredible sound engineer, and print beautiful hard copies of the record to land on your doormat.
I'm pouring a lot of creative energy, time and soul into the making of this album and we'll be funding as much as we can ourselves, but we really need your support to make this album what it needs to be.
Please check out all of the perks and get involved!
The Impact
Your involvement will really make such a difference to the quality of this album and I'm so excited about where it could go! We have already got some of our album launch tour dates booked in, the songs are all written and the studio time for musicians is booked!
Risks & Challenges
Having released two prior records I know how time-consuming and expensive this process can be. This time around I have strict deadlines and budgets and feel confident that with your help everything will be on time and sounding mint.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you feel like you can't contribute financially, we'd love for you to be involved anyway by sharing this with your friends, family, neighbours or anyone who might be interested.
Thank you so much.