The legendary Michael Chapman will return to Liverpool this Thursday 26th April 2018 with a show at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room, in association withMellowtone and Ceremony Concerts.
Veteran British songwriter and guitar sage Michael Chapman ranks among the innovative mid-century English guitarists who transposed the atmosphere and syntax of the blues to a British context through reinvention and deconstruction, rather than imitation. His music is suffused with the crooked logic, unfulfilled longing, and existential danger of dreams, shaded with his own wry sensibility of Northern darkness.
Like a peaty whiskey, the smoky gravitas of Chapman’s playing and singing has grown more trenchant and entrenched with age. His emergence in 1967 as a self-taught jazz freak, recovering art school student, and part-time photography teacher on the Cornish folk circuit preceded a series of classic late 1960s and ’70s albums for Harvest, Deram, and Decca.
Support on the night comes from a man described as “Liverpool’s own answer to Michael Chapman” – Nick Ellis – who appears fresh off a triumphant show at Ullet Road Unitarian Church.
Nick Ellis (Photo: Peter Goodbody)
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About Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman first became known on the London and Cornish folk circuits in mid-1966. Playing a blend of atmospheric and autobiographical material he established a reputation for intensity and innovation. While living in Hull, East Yorkshire, in late 1969, he signed to EMI’s Harvest label & recorded a quartet of classic albums. LPs like ’Fully Qualified Survivor,’ ‘Rainmaker’ , ‘Window’ and ‘Wrecked Again’ defined the melancholic observer role Michael was to make his own, mixing intricate guitar instrumentals with a full band sound.
Michael Chapman is known as one of the UK’s best finger picking style guitar players. As part of a continuing musical lineage that includes the likes of Ralph McTell, John Martyn, Davey Graham & Bert Jansch, Chapman is still active touring and recording and his playing is on top form.
Read more about Michael Chapman here …
https://www.theguardian.com/
For discography please see http://www.michaelchapman.co.
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About Nick Ellis
Nick Ellis is dedicated to the concept of “Song” and “Melody”. Some people call it folk, some just call it good old fashioned song craft. Currently based in Liverpool, Ellis blends streetscape narrative-noir with a classic British acoustic approach. Using a blend of rhythmic attack and finger-quick lucidity, his sound has been described as “a conversation between Elvis Costello and John Martyn.”
Adult Fiction is the latest album release from Ellis – his third in the space of two years – following the streetscape narrative-noir debut of Grace & Danger (April 2016) and it’s surrealist-folk follow-up, Daylight Ghosts (November 2016).
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