Harvey Sutherland - Boy. LP
Mike Katz, a producer and bandleader from Melbourne has been releasing music under the the name Harvey Sutherland since 2013. Boy has been a couple of years in the works, taking shape in between tours with Khruangbin and Hot Chip as well as a busy studio schedule that include production and killer remixes for Disclosure, Genesis Owusu and Hiatus Kaiyote. In this time, Katz also spread his wings as a bandleader, touring internationally with his live ensemble and directing an 11-piece band for the New York boogie icon Leroy Burgess on his Australian tour. “I love DJing and making music for those spaces,” says Katz. “But I’d come from a band world, so early on I found myself dragging keyboards and drum kits onto tiny nightclub stages.” It was, he says, “a trial by fire... now I treat playing live with as much attention to the mood of the room as I do when I DJ. Messing with arrangements at the last minute, maintaining a flow - everyone in the band has to be tuned in."
Boy is powered by this sense of live musicality, but it’s also something deeply personal. Katz explains he made most of the record “in a circular loop between my studio and my psychotherapist”, so inevitably it started out being a record about his father (hence the “boy” of the title, a term of endearment used by the Katz family). Increasingly, though, Katz realised he was really writing about his own traits and habits. Instead, Boy became a sort of quest for identity; that’s when he knew he had to put his own face on the cover. “I like the idea of oversharing,” he explains. “Electronic music has that archetype of the brooding, faceless producer. I sort of like hacking that, doing the opposite.”
TRACKLISTING:
1. Jouissance
2. Age Of Acceleration
3. Feeling Of Love Ft. DāM-FunK
4. Holding Pattern
5. Michael Was Right About You
6. Slackers
7. Type A Ft. sos
8. Angry Young Man
9. Boy
10. Time On My Side
