| Judging
from the reactions amongst the bedroom audience to his recent Triangular
Hair album, Henry Law is finally achieving the recognition and understanding
that has long been due him. In a decade where there have been exceedingly
few musical visionaries, Law has been developing a style and sound very
much his own.
It seems hard to realise that almost ten years have passed since the precociously
gifted eighteen year old made his first startling impact on the bedroom
scene with Kipling's Pagans. The years of experience
in one of the North's most experimental bands have left him with diverse
tastes.
'I am the Law' sees the same impressively strong team as 'Big Black Hat'
with the sad exception of Len Miller after his untimely death in a plane
crash. Of Taylor, Law observes: 'He's like another half of me. Almost
like being married - he's always bloody there but I couldn't do without
him. He's got a massive sound and no matter what kind of feel you bring
into the music, he reads precisely what's going on and reacts perfectly'.
The two have been working together since Law started out in music back
in the seventies, and it shows! 'Dan and Raoul we picked up in Havana.
We fit together like a jigsaw.' They are certainly a puzzle - how do they
do it? Listen and learn...
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