Porcupine Tree's Gavin Harrison Tried To Avoid Cheese On New Album
. (Prog) Porcupine Tree and King Crimson drummer Gavin Harrison says he was careful to avoid sounding cheesy on his upcoming solo album. Harrison issues Cheating The Polygraph on April 13 via Kscope. It features reimagined, big band versions of eight classic Porcupine Tree songs. The idea first came about in 2009 when he was asked to take part in a memorial concert for the late drum icon Buddy Rich. Rich's daughter Cathy planted the seed for what eventually became Cheating The Polygraph. Harrison tells MusicRadar: "Cathy said to me, 'You're welcome to play any of Buddy's tunes, of course, but what would be really fun is if you did a song from your band.' "My band's music isn't anything like Buddy's, obviously, so I thought about it, and then I got together with Laurence Cottle, a big band arranger, to see what might work. "I told Laurence, 'I don't want this to be funny. It couldn't be comedy, cheesy, 'rock does swing' or anything like that. I thought it should be serious music. We went with that approach, and it came out great." Read more here. Prog Magazine is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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