Owen Harris and the Saracens

Music:

Member Since: 4/14/2007
Band Website: unsigned.com/owenharrisandthesaracens
Band Members: Owen Harris (Vocals, Melodica, Piano, Ukulele, Trumpet)
and the revolving members of The Saracens
Currently;
Matt Coughlin (Land-moving and Drumscaping)

Drew Glasgow (Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Mandolin and Mustache)
Tyler Adams (Vocals, hurdy gurdy, guitar, bass, mandolin, Miscellaneous)

Influences:
Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Igor Stravinsky, Ned Rosenblatt, Jake Nugent, Andrew Glasgow, Afrobeat, C12H17N2O4P, Soft Machine, Claude Debussy, Alan Watts, Bob Dylan, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sogyal Rinpoche, Terrence Mckenna, Ram Dass, Herbie Hancock, Architecture in Helsinki, William S Burroughs, Wei Wu Wei, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland,C20H25N3O, Gore Vidal, Richie Havens, The Doors, Bela Bartok, C12H16N2, Ernest Chausson , Jonah Lehrer, Bela Fleck, C21H30O2, Ween, Francis Poulenc, JS Bach, Egg, Jack Johnson, Tariq Ali, Dick Dale, Sufjan Stevens, Macy Gray, Curtis Mayfield , Rimbaud, Michel Gondry, Albrecht Durer, Baudelaire,Moses Hogan, John Prine, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ogden Nash, Julian Jaynes, György Ligeti James Joyce, Robert Anton Wilson, Sun Ra, Herman Melville, Fiona Apple, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Noam Chomsky, Alexander The Great, Bjork, Asoka, The Meters, Norman Mailer, Paula Cole, Nan Goldin, The Shadows, Victor Vasarely, The Grateful Dead, BC2, Kool Kieth, Hugo Wolf, Henryk Gorecki ,The Buddha in Everyone, Allen Ginsberg, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Virginia Woolf, Warren Zevon, Sacred Blue Lotus, Devendra Banhart, Pink Floyd, Ralph Waldo Emerson,C16H17N3O, Antibalas , the Czech New Wave, Henry David Thoreau, Yonder Mountain String Band, Maggie, Pierce and EJ, Booker T and the MG's, Animal Collective, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Theodore Roethke, James Flint, Queen, Jed Krishnamurti, Rumi, Alex Grey, The Lounge Lizards, John Zorn, John Lurie, C17H17NO2, Joana Newsom, Wes Anderson Thích Qu?ng --?c, Regina Spektor, Jainism. Luciano Berio, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Darius Milhaud, Randall Thompson, the Goddess Lakshmi, Howard Zinn, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust, Salman Rushdie
Sounds Like:
"Nostalgia is absolutely charming, coherent, and a little strange." - Lee Feldman
"I like the rawness...too cool." - Jimmy K
"Owen wields music in one hand, and love in the other. " - Alan of Dale
"Such a welcome distraction! " - R. Barnard
"Pretty heavy shit..." In CNFLD
"When music flows from cacophony to harmony it redefines harmony. You capture that." -Doug Anderson "
"Sounds like a gypsy resurrected as a pirate who’s tripping on music." - Michael
"Sounds like plastic neon bubblefish, with milk." - will delacroix
"Your sound is koo dude.. I like the recordings just like they are.. Liked you just plugged in, the way they did it in the 70’s." - Chino Maurice
"The spirit of Zappa, alive and well." - The Owl Service
"If i could convert what goes on in my head while i am sleeping into sound it might sound something like this." - Blue Cadet-3
"Titillates my tits and expostulates my gulliver. You’re the ripened in my ear’s ovary Kingsley. " Scantron
"Your tracks are covered lively, Here veers outside the interior comrade. Much pleasure, yes." - okay
"The one thing that strikes me is the eclecticism of your music, while still managing to sound unified.It’s very earthy and real and quite smart: odd time signatures and a seeming avoidance of cliched chord and melodic progressions. And it all sounds quite natural and convincing." - Alain Mayrand

Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None