Michael Chapman (musicista)

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Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman in concerto al Ramblin Roots Festival 2017
NazionalitàRegno Unito (bandiera) Regno Unito
GenereFolk rock
Folk
Jazz
Periodo di attività musicale1996 – 2021
EtichettaMooncrest Records, Secret, Harvest, Deram, Criminal, Black Crow, Strange Fruit, Mooncrest, Demon, Rural Retreat, Secret, Market Square, Blast First Petite, Tompkins Square
Album pubblicati50
Sito ufficiale

Michael Chapman (Hunslet, 24 gennaio 194110 settembre 2021) è stato un cantante, musicista, cantautore e chitarrista britannico[1][2][3][4]. Iniziò a suonare la chitarra con alcune band e gruppi jazz principalmente nella sua città natale di Leeds nella zona West Riding dello Yorkshire. Alla fine degli anni '60 divenne noto nei club folk e successivamente nella scena musicale "progressive", pubblicando nei suoi oltre 50 anni di carriera[5] più di 50 album.

Album in studio

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  • Rainmaker (UK LP, Harvest SHVL 755, Jul 1969), reissued (US LP, Light in the Attic Records[6] LITA 079, 2012)
  • Guitar Music (UK LP, Standard Music Library ESL.103, 1969)
  • Fully Qualified Survivor (UK LP, Harvest SHVL 764, Mar 1970, UK No. 45[7]), reissued (US LP, Light in the Attic Records[6] LITA 060, 2011)
  • Window (UK LP, Harvest SHVL 786, Dec 1970), reissued (US LP, Light in the Attic Records[6] LITA 124, 2015)
  • Wrecked Again (UK LP, Harvest SHVL 798, Nov 1971), reissued (US LP, Light in the Attic Records[6] LITA 101, 2013)
  • Millstone Grit (UK LP, Deram SML 1105, 1973)
  • Deal Gone Down (UK LP, Deram SML 1114, 1974)
  • Pleasures of the Street (GER LP, recorded live at Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Nova 6.22321 AS, 1975)
  • Savage Amusement (UK LP, Decca SKL-R 5242, 1976)
  • Michael Chapman Lived Here 1968–1972 (UK compilation LP, Cube Records GNAT 1, 1977)
  • The Man Who Hated Mornings (UK LP, Decca SKL-R 5290, 1977), reissued (UK LP, Criminal Records STEAL 3, 1978)
  • Play Guitar The Easy Way (UK LP, with instruction manual, Criminal Records STEAL 2, 1978)
  • Life on the Ceiling (UK LP, Criminal Records STEAL 5, 1979)
  • Looking For Eleven (UK LP, Criminal Records STEAL 9, 1980)
  • Almost Alone (UK LP, Black Crow Records CRO 202, 1981)
  • Guitar Solo (UK LP, April Music APR 1004, 1982)
  • Original Owners (BE LP, Michael Chapman and Rick Kemp, recorded live at Nettlefield Hall, London, Konexion Records KOMA 788003, 1983)
  • Heartbeat (NL LP, Coda/New Age 832 223-1, 1987)
  • Still Making Rain (1991/3) – Self Release 1991 / Making Waves 1993
  • Navigation (UK CD, Planet Records PLAN CD007, 1995)
  • Dreaming Out Loud (1997) – Demon Records
  • Michael Chapman Black And White (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 1998)
  • BBC Sessions 69–75 (1998) Strange Fruit Records
  • The Twisted Road (1999) – Mystic UK
  • Growing Pains (UK CD, compilation of previously unreleased material recorded 1966–1980, Mooncrest Records CRESTCD 046, 2000)
  • Growing Pains 2 (2001) – Mooncrest Records
  • Americana (2001) – Apropos / reissued on Blueprint
  • Live And Unhinged (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2001)
  • Kule 2 B Blue with Alamo Leal (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2001)
  • Americana 2 (UK CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2002)
  • Dogs Got More Sense (2004) – Secret Records
  • Journeyman Live DVD (2004) – Secret Records
  • 27 06 05 Live in Brighton (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2005)
  • Plaindealer (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2005)
  • Lost (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2005)
  • Words Fail Me (2007)
  • Vanity and Pride (2008) – self release – limited edition – Michael Chapman and Ursa
  • Sweet Powder (UK CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2008)
  • Time Past & Time Passing (2008) – Electric Ragtime
  • And Then There Were Three Live in Nottingham 1977 (2010) – Market Square Records
  • Wrytree Drift (CD, Rural Retreat Records, 2010)
  • Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967–2010 (CD, Tompkins Square Records TSQ 2530, 2011)
  • The Resurrection and Revenge of The Clayton Peacock (UK CD, Blastfirst Petite PTYT 068, Feb 2012)
  • Pachyderm (LP, Blastfirst Petite PTYT 070LP, 2013)
  • The Polar Bear (LP, Blastfirst Petite PTYT 078LP, Nov 2014)
  • Live At Folk Cottage, Cornwall 1967 (UK DLP, TreeHouse44 TH44LP0201, 2014)
  • Fish (LP, Tompkins Square Records TSQ 5203, Oct 2015)
  • 50 (US/UK LP, Paradise of Bachelors PoB-29, Jan 2017)
  • EB=MC2 (2017) (Michael Chapman & Ehud Banai) – Nana Disc
  • True North (US/UK LP, Paradise of Bachelors PoB-044, Feb 2019)
  • Another Story (UK, Record Store Day Limited Edition compilation LP, Secret Records SECLP 210, Apr 2019)
  • Plaindealer + Twisted Road (2020) Double album – Mooncrest Records
  • Americana (LP, Secret Records CRESTLP 108, Apr 2020)
  • Michael Chapman – Sweet Powder & Wrytree Drift Double CD (2020) Mooncrest Records
  • Michael Chapman – The Decca Years 1974–77 – 8 Panel Digipack (2021) Mooncrest Records
  • "It Didn't Work Out" b/w "Mozart Lives Upstairs" (UK 7" Harvest HAR 5002, 1969)
  • "The Banjo Song" b/w "Dumplings" (UK 7" Deram DM 407, 1974)
  • "Lovin' Dove" b/w "Steel Bonnets" (UK 7" Decca FR 13658, 1976)
  • "While Dancing the Pride of Erin" b/w "The Man Who Hated Mornings" (UK 7" Criminal Records SWAG 1, 1978)
  • "Blue Season" b/w "Theme from the Movie of the Same Name" (UK 7" Criminal Records SWAG 6, 1979)
  • "Lescudjack" b/w "Wrecked Again" and "Deal Gone Down" (recorded live in Hamburg) (UK 12" Criminal Records D SWAG 7, 1979)
  • "East Coast" b/w "White Night Starlight" (UK 7" Criminal Records SWAG 13, 1980)
  • "That Time of Night" b/w Lucinda Williams, "That Time of Night" (UK Limited Edition 10" Tompkins Square Records 12653, Nov 2012)
  1. ^ (EN) Folk Guitar Great Michael Chapman Dead At 80, su Stereogum, 10 settembre 2021. URL consultato il 18 settembre 2024.
  2. ^ (EN) Evan Minsker, Michael Chapman, English Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 80, su Pitchfork, 10 settembre 2021. URL consultato il 18 settembre 2024.
  3. ^ (EN) Laura Snapes, Michael Chapman: British folk musician dies aged 80, in The Guardian, 11 settembre 2021. URL consultato il 18 settembre 2024.
  4. ^ (EN) Michael Chapman was the deepest, most joyful musical lifer I’ve ever met, in The Guardian, 14 settembre 2021. URL consultato il 18 settembre 2024.
  5. ^ (FR) Olivier Lamm, Le son du jour #86: Américain comme Michael Chapman, su Libération. URL consultato il 18 settembre 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d Fully Qualified Survivor Info Page, su Lightintheattic.net.
  7. ^ David Roberts, British Hit Singles & Albums, London, Guinness World Records, 2006, pp. 100, ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

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