Harvey Lord

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 10 Nov, 2011.

Harvey Lord returns with a new 17 track album on Autumn Ferment, jam packed with slightly fried variations on traditional folky themes. They're a cheeky bunch are Harvey Lord and His Existence. Not only are they precision tight and bold in their reinterpretation of the North Of England's folklore's but they also manage to squeeze as many obscure instruments into the mix as possible, the musical saw and the hang drum being an example of just two of the oddities making an appearance here. Their dynamic isn't that far removed from the likes of Glasgow's Tattie Toes though this music is more homely and settled with the experimentation taking a back seat to good old telling of a tale. It's certainly an impressive display of virtuosity on the group's part and they ain't bad little numbers either. This will no doubt please those of you with a taste for experimental folk.

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In early 2010 Autumn Ferment helped release a very limited supply of Harvey’s double cdr album which came
housed in lovingly handmade woollen pouches. They sold out so quickly it was a bit of a blink and you missed it
kind of affair.
Now Harvey Lord and his Existence are back on AFR with an outstanding 17 track album called Yoke released
on October the 31st making it the most perfect soundtrack for the autumn.
Yoke is chiefly an album of Harvey’s observations and mind boggling stories of illicit whisky stills, poachers,
blue bears, “rats and weird things” and Alfred Wainwright’s ghost, but in amongst the tales are beautiful
instrumental compositions filled with an array of instruments ranging from hang drum and musical saw to
accordion and ocarina, strings and brass, guitar and percussion. The many sweet moments of song and
instrumental decadence gives solid proof of the talented musicianship and tightness within the band.
This is an album of folk tales both old and new, sweet and strange, heavily imbued with the history and
lore of the North of England, albeit slightly fringed with a folky psychedlia with equal measures of autumnal
melancholy and fireside revelry.

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