Harold Burgon has been working with music and sound since he was guitarist for the Dave Travis Bad River Band in 1971. He designed and built Hook End Manor studio in Checkendon Oxfordshire for Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) in 1972.
During the 70's Harold recorded with Dave Travis, Alvin Lee, Ten Years After, George Harrison, Jim Capaldi, Mick Fleetwood, Gary Brooker, Ronnie Wood, Steve Winwood, Alan Spenner (Joe Cocker Band), Ian Wallace (King Crimson drummer), Tim Hinkly, FBI with Root Jackson, Frankie Corillo, Horselips (Live in Dublin).
In 1976 Harold was Head of Sound Recording for Mainos TV, Finland and went on to be commissioning engineer for Soundtrack Studios, Helsinki and later became a Producer for R.C.A.
In the 80's Harold designed a recording studio for Brixton Music Development in Lambeth. As a producer/sound engineer he worked with bands such as The Godfathers, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Pogues and The Dubliners (The Irish Rover), Horselips (live double album), My Bloody Valentine, Dr Miller and the Cute Hoors, Ian Lowry, King Blank, the Mothers and the legendary Lee 'Scratch' Perry.
He also formed and performed with his own band The Creamies. A compilation CD of the Creamies recordings is available at
http://cdbaby.com/cd/creamies
In 1987 he recorded the soundtrack for the film " Straight To Hell" with the Pogues.
In the 90s Harold designed and built the BBC Radio Studio for Partners in Sound in Camden. Harold also recorded with Terrorvision and Die Cheerleader but mostly concentrated on writing music for Television (Back Tracks, LRTV, BBC educational series 'Talking About', Time Treasures). He also recorded the soundtrack for the film 'Edward II' by Derek Jarman, music by Simon Turner.
In 1998, working in Spain, Harold mastered the centenary Lorca album 'De Granada a la Luna' (Nenah Cherry, Compay Segundo, Robert Wyatt, Lagartija Nick, Enrique Morente, Imperio Argentina) as well as mixing various tracks for Enrique Morente. The same year he was commissioning engineer for Ruido Rosa Studios, Ortura, Granada where he produced 'Jazz en la Costa'.
In 2000 Harold was live Sound Engineer for the Spanish TV series 'Estar Por Ver'. The same year he engineered Estrella Morente's Grammy nominated 'Mi Cante y un Poema' and again in 2002 for her album 'Calle del Aire'. Also in 2002 he produced 'Cale Calé' for Taller de Compás which won the Critics Award for the Best Flamenco Percussion album.
In 2003 he produced Emilio Maya's album 'Temple' and Pablo Maldonado's album 'Almanjáyar' as well as designing and building his own studio Andalamusica. He also produced the album 'Apocalypse' for Subterfuge Records.
In 2005 he produced albums for Pull and Fiona May for Gas Oil Records and mixed the album 'Coming Clean' for Gary Lucas and his group Gods and Monsters and produced 'If I should See Fire' for Greg Byler and the Branded Souls. In 2005 he was commissioned to design a new residential music and film studio in Padul, Granada which will be completed in 2008.
In 2006/07 he produced Mona Lisa, Suetor, After Prozac, A Priori and Irene Preuss at the Andalamusica Studio.
Over the years Harold has done live sound for artists such as King Blank, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Dick Dale, G Love and Special Sauce, Boney M, Morphine, Manic Street Preachers, Sound Garden, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Catatonia.
