Michael Chapman – The Resurrection And Revenge Of the Clayton Peacock [CD]

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£5.85

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: PTYT068CD
Barcode: 5060174953552
Release Date: 11 Aug 2023
Genre: Experimental, Abstract, Free Improvisation

The last time anyone checked Michael Chapman was a forgotten 1970's songwriter, but American revisionists, citing his guitar instrumentals have found a lost folk-blues primitvist in the John Fahey vein. Nothing in the Yorkshire troubadour's catalogue presaged these two lengthy electric guitar drones, buoyed on throbbing loops and serrated with scratchy noise, the first a low end rumble the second a high end Himalayan temple-bell tingle. The kids get a new cult figure and grandad gets to play loud and tour with the noisy new boy Dean McPhee. Everybody's happy. Sunday Times 12.02.12