The beat goes on for ex-hippie Lee
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:39:11 -0700
STEVEN RUSSELL Being a Suffolk pensioner doesn't stop you collaborating with an urban hip-hop artist nearly a third your age, though it's certainly more unusual than carpet-bowls and afternoon tea-dances. But, then, Lee Harris's life has always run counter to the norm. He tells Steven Russell about meeting Nelson Mandela and John Lennon and those idealistic days of the 1960sLEE Harris slides a copy of his new CD across the kitchen table: the fruit of his alliance with the West London producer and rap poet River Styx. The album is billed as a mesmerising journey of psychedelic soundscapes. Lee - ex-beatnik, former hippie and adopted son of Suffolk - can't quite get over his involvement with the 21st Century scene and the technological magic that goers hand-in-glove with modern music-making: the de rigueur MySpace site and a two-hour internet broadcast, say. READ FULL ARTICLE: http://www.mail-archive.com/sixties-l@googlegroups.com/msg01583.htmlLee Harris
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