Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher

"The Great Plains Alternative Rock Album" is the culmination of a collaboration between artist storyteller Andrew Hogarth and Sydney musician Chris Fisher. The album comprises sixteen songs recorded over a eighteen year period from 2000-2018 with concepts derived from Hogarth’s love of Native American and Plains War history. Hogarth's extensive travels of 200,000 miles throughout the Great Plains region of the USA and the honouring of oral traditions through to Fisher’s observations of love, life and universal struggle.

"The Great Plains Alternative Rock Album" is dedicated to the memory of Southern Cheyenne Bowstring Warrior Society War Chief Medicine Water (1835-1926). The inspired and tenacious resistance of the Cheyenne and Lakota Nations to stop the tide of America’s Manifest Destiny in the period of 1854-1890 underpins many of the songs however it is the triumph of the human spirit that unifies the album.

The original eleven track album was written and recorded over an eighteen month period 2000-2001 under the guidance of producer and recording engineer Adam Barns at Smokin & Jokin Recording Studios in Artarmon and mastered by Meredith Brooks at Soundwarp Studios, Brookvale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

In late August, 2016 Hogarth and Fisher reunited to record two of Hogarth's 2009 lyrics "Coyote Man" and "Buffalo Medicine Horns" to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Great Plains Alternative Rock Album. Adam Barns was once again brought on board to engineer and produce the new material. The songs were recorded at One Flight Up Recording Studios one of Sydney's premier recording facilities in the suburb of St. Peters.

In mid December, 2017 and again in early January, 2018 Hogarth and Fisher returned back into One Flight Up Recording Studios to record the final three songs for "The Great Plains Alternative Rock Album" once again two of Hogarth's lyrics were selected from 2009 "Children of the Mist" and "Big Hole." The third song recorded in the studio was "Comanche Moon" and it was a tribute song to the life and times of Comanche War Chief Quanah Parker. "Comanche Moon" was written over a seven week period in May-June, 2018 to compliment the other material on the album. The songs were once again engineered and produced by Adam Barns and they were mastered on the 25th of March, 2018.

Hogarth’s extensive fieldwork has resulted in three photographic collections and the publication of six books. His collection "Powwow: Native American Celebration" was one of only fourteen to be chosen from a worldwide call for submissions by Exhibits USA resulting in a three year national tour of the United States of America. Powwow debuted at the Dr. Martin Luther King National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee in October 2000 with subsequent exhibitions in prominent museums and art galleries across thirteen American states.

Hogarth’s work has been published in newspapers and magazines from the front cover of the USA national newspaper "Indian Country Today" to a recent extensive feature story in "Australian Journey Magazine" in December, 2012. Hogarth was invited to speak about his life and work at the inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival in early April, 2013.

In early 2014 Hogarth exhibited a selection of digital images from his "Native America: Dinetah to the Greasy Grass 2008-2013" portfolio at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as part of their “Healing Arts Program.”

Chris Fisher is a multi instrumentalist and writer/composer with a passion for music and indigenous cultures. Chris was the singer/songwriter for the heavy metal band Pulse 8 for eight years. Chris has also written and recorded a vast collection of songs in his home based studio, covering many different genres of traditional and contemporary music and has collaborated with several talented independent artists, both established and up-and-coming. Today Chris lives in the city of Wollongong with his young daughter Lily.

Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher’s tracks

• Andrew Hogarth & Chris Fisher 2RRR 88.5 FM Radio Gladesville, Sydney, NSW, Australia 25.4.2018. by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Comanche Moon by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Children of the Mist by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Big Hole by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Coyote Man by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Buffalo Medicine Horns by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Medicine Water by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Lakota Spirit by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher
• Sweet Medicine by Andrew Hogarth and Chris Fisher