My name is Joe Davis. I have been in several bands over the years including The Far Look, Blood Of The Dragon, Pyramids On Mars, and Scalded Dog. Harts Horn is my solo home recording project. I play pretty much everything with occasional guests.
I have played drums for many different bands over the years, ranging from jazz to punk rock and I am currently a member of a bass and drums / experimental band called The Far Look. At some point I realized that the type of music I really wanted to play (Kraut and experimental influenced space rock) had a limited audience and that there were no musicians around me that shared those interests enough to want to play that type of music specifically. Like a lot of American space rock groups, Harts Horn was formed after I attended the first Strange Daze festival. I guess it took seeing such inspiring bands as Alien Planetscapes and F/i (not to mention Hawkwind with Nik Turner) to make me realize that I could be a part of this music if I wanted to. Around the same time I had begun writing very elemental folk tunes on an acoustic that my wife had and I also learned how to use a 4 track that a friend loaned me. Things spiraled out from there and I now have 14 albums out: HEARSAY & HERESY, CERNUNNOS, THE HOLLOW EARTH, JETTISONED, SSSONGSSS, ANTHEMIC DIRGE OF COSMOS, QUIXOTIC UNDERGROUND, I WEAR DESIGNS, ETHER/ORE, EGG ASH SKULL GARDEN, PET NOIZES (split CD with Astro Al), BEGIN TO EXIST, DYSTOPIAN MIRRORSCAPE, and WHEN SNAKES HAD LEGS & WE WERE FREE.
I prefer recording to playing live, but I do play out occasionally. Mostly locally at art galleries or bookstores. I'm not sure bars are the best place for this type of music.... well, not in the midwest anyway.
Space Rock, Kraut Rock, Jazz, Punk.... Hawkwind, Can, Faust, Chrome, Guided By Voices, Ghost, Boredoms, F/i, Acid Mothers Temple, Heldon / Richard Pinhas, Jet Jaguar, Electric Eels, T. Rex, Ozric Tentacles, The Rabbit's Hat, Census Of Hallucinations, Sun Ra, Egberto Gismonti, Violent Onsen Geisha, Keith Jarrett, Nik Turner, Julian Cope, AcidGuitarKing, Z'ev, Budgie, Blue Oyster Cult, Thinking Plague, Jason Brewer, coffee, campfires, comic books, the woods, beat poetry, science fiction, independent zines, D.I.Y. culture, and homesteading....
I can use anything that makes a sound. I guess you could say I'm partial to phase, wah, and delay...
I am always willing to trade for your CD, CDR, zine, art, or anything else that you make or do. Simply email me your idea and we'll sort it out.