Feel

Jesse Harris | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 10, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Velour Recordings
• ASIN: B000R7I34Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,405 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feel, July 27, 2007

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Leah (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feel (Audio CD)

I usually don't take the time to write about records on here but I couldn't help myself. "Feel" is a masterpiece. It is as catchy and effortless as it is deep and soulful. Jesse Harris is one of the few that gives me faith in the over saturated/under inspired genre of singer/songwriter.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Jesse Harris groove is alive, July 23, 2007

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Phoebus Franca "thebuffer" (San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feel (Audio CD)

The first song, "Feel" captures you right away, but then the next songs start to blur and you're not so sure. But, I can report that after listening to the album nonstop for several days now, this one is addicting and beautiful. There isn't really a weak song on it, except for maybe the last one, but everybody seems to like that one so I'll go along.
Beginning with Mineral (even before, in a more rock-ish way), Harris has become like an aural artist or a tone painter. In another era, he might have been like Ravel, Satie or Debussy. The sound is spare, and fills the space only when necessary. Harris chose his accompanying musicians well, and you see how rich the choices are around The Living Room back in NYC...a pool which includes Norah Jones and her band. Here, Tim Lunzel plays some creative bass and Andrew Borger, the drummer (or really percussionist) for The Handsome Band, handles the rhythm instruments. Borger is the perfect choice; he's maturing into a very interesting, jazzy, idiosyncratic drummer, perfect for Norah's sound but clearly just right for this disc, too.
Harris' lyrics, even though he's the guy who wrote "Don't Know Why," on this disc often seem like they are either not important, not thought through...or maybe it would be better if he teamed up with a really good lyric writer amongst his Living Room colleagues, such as Richard Julian or Lee Alexander. But, even that criticism fades the more you listen to this disc. The lyrics are also kind of impressionistic, or maybe improvised and childlike. I'll go four stars because the lyrics aren't 5-star level, but heck, maybe that's picking on something not that important.
He is influenced by and apparently reveres Brazilian music, and you hear that on "Feel," but then, he's really taken it into his own so it's Jesse Harris, not ersatz Brazilian. The variety of sounds and rhythms is fantastic, way beyond most records these days. This album might be compared to Paul Simon's Graceland kind of thing, but to me this album is different because it is not Jesse Harris doing Brazilian music but just...Jesse Harris.
Anyway, buy this one and you're in for an amazing sound experience, especially with some good headphones on. I guess it could serve as background music for a summer afternoon and a few glasses of wine, but there's a lot more to it than that.

4.0 out of 5 stars Bus to Anywhere, July 10, 2009

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Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feel (Audio CD)

Jesse Harris' CD "Feel" is at times moody, but is a very strong set with some great moments. "How Could It Take So Long?" chugs at its midtempo pace with a plucky banjo and harmonica and Harris' unassuming but affecting vocals, "Some need something they can lie on; Some need something they can die on; All I need's a bus to anywhere." "The Wind" meanders with Harris' voice seeming to long for something just out of reach, "Happy for awhile, the good times were out of style & April came & went colder than its ever been." "Shadow" has some pep with Harris' vocals like a newfound David Gray in a very sweet track. There are no big clunkers here. Overall, this is a very strong set. Enjoy!