LEWIS
HARRISON

I create groovy, jazzy piano-based music. The piano provides a full, rich texture, accompanied by simple electronic grooves, sometimes with the addition of vocals – singing and/or rapping. As a fluent musician, I love using the language of music to improvise, to compose in real time. It helps me make sense of life – like therapy.

I love the irrepressible, spontaneous spirit of jazz and although I’ve experimented with it on the piano since my teens, the confidence to share this music publicly is a recent development. My musical journey has been complicated – I had too much pressure placed on me as a child, causing me to struggle with the competitive nature of the music industry and how it turns music into a status object, like a commercial or fashion item. For me, music is not an external thing at all; it is a universal language of feeling for telling stories, expressing deep feelings, to describe inner worlds that words can’t, to bring solace, catharsis, joy and connection.

The name I use for this project is important to me: my early years were challenging but the encouragement that I received from my Grandma – Louise Harrison – inspires me to this day.