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singer songwriter jazz folk blues
contemporary music
harley works in pop and jazz with some great artists like Jean Toussaint from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Brian Kellock and Tam White, bassist Andy Kremer (Terry Callier, Zohar), and Steve Truman and backing vocals for Ben Green and Rod Blake projects.
Her first solo work 'Storm in a teacup' with bass player Steve Truman (soon to be re-released) led to her beautiful album featuring brilliant jazz pianist Brian Kellock "summer sings within", is a sunday afternoon mix of poetry soundings and old jazz tunes mixed by Joel Douek (composer for David Attenborough, including Flying Monsters 3D).
'Sometime Somewhere Someone' followed: a searing sorrowful album of grief for dear friends lost.
More projects to follow - a jazz EP and a folk singer songwriter murder mystery
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Harley is a flutterby sharing eye to eye and heart to heart.
Jazz soundscapes
with the brilliant
Brian Kellock
"a listening delight"
mixed in New York by Joel Douek in 2010 after a studio session with Brian Kellock in glorious Glasgow 's Premier Studios after working on a film with the awesome Tam White
love songs to those lost
mixed at Metropolis Studios - singer-songwriter vibe
& viola Mary Price-O'Connor
& on double-bass Lorcan O'Connor
the title track written on a rainy day on Byres Road, each song evocative of a time and place: I stood by the roadside, angel with a hangover (bloody mary still in bed), full of ghosts and memories in the coldest hour before dawn
Lullabies and bones
new album recorded at Castlesound Studios with Stuart Hamilton
mixed & mastered by Phil Lee
Lullabies, bones & blood features asaf avidan's between these hands and leonard cohen's ballad of a runaway horse feature in an album of keening and wondering from 'helen took me to daisy island' and 'down by the clyde'... places, bones and old lullabies - to be released in 2026 JUNE 6TH - still mixing in a wee bit harmonica, accordian & strings...
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painting from the Great Howling of 2022
other songs of longing and belonging
so much in a busy life gets lost unshared when press have hounded, lied, stolen and deceived so this is for those who meander - thankyou