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2012 releases
Seventh Wave (MSMCD154) [Release date
[02.01.12] "Two men from Britain sounding like twenty..." that's how America greeted this visionary British ‘70s synth/progressive fusion act and the quote still evinces today the potency and scale of their output. Formerly in Second Hand and Chillum, multi-instrumentalist and keyboards wizard Ken Elliott and percussionist Kieran O'Connor reached to every corner of music in a quest to build in 1974's 'Things To Come', a sweeping titan of overdub. Riding on its success, the two recruited the likes of Hugh Banton (Van Der Graaf Generator), jazz fusion singer Pepe Lemer and husband Pete and Steve Cook (the latter two in Gilgamesh) to record the equally towering if more traditionally progressive 'Psi-Fi' the following year. This collector's 2CD digipack reissue with a 16-page story/photo booklet brings both albums, re-mastered from the original studio tapes, and in the process exposing new dimensions to the innovatory genius of Seventh Wave. ORIGINAL REVIEWS "Totally overwhelming, decidedly oddball, extremely exciting if played loud." Record Disc & Mirror
"...some of the most original and
vital music currently being made in Britain - looks like we might be in on
the ground floor of a musical revolution here."
"Fairly far-out - a bizarre mixture of
Queen and Genesis, with Rick Wakeman offering encouragement from the bar."
Melody Maker BUY Seventh Wave (MSMCD157)
...it's fascinating and far better
than any such collection could be reasonably expected to be. Andy
Fyfe, Mojo *** (August 2011) Michael Chapman (MSMCD157) [Release date
20.06.11] Virtuoso guitarist and critically acclaimed songwriter, championed by John Peel and later Charles Shaar Murray, Michael Chapman recorded a quartet of highly regarded albums for EMI's progressive Harvest label. In this latest archive recordings release, he presides over previously unreleased tracks spanning folk rock, blues, jazz and experimental genres - ranging from a live solo performance in 1969 to studio collaboration with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) in 2005, by way of a 1980's TV film soundtrack with Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp (Steeleye Span), and much more besides. With an extensive booklet of Chapman's reminiscences illustrated with pictures from his own collection, 'Growing Pains 3' is another highly personal ‘take' on the rich and varied career of one of British music's most individualistic craftsmen.
'England's most original
singer-songwriter' All Music Guide BUY Michael Chapman (MSMCD157)
2010 releases
Nutz (MSMCD153) [Release date 09.08.10]
Recording for A&M, touring with Black
Sabbath, wowing BBC TV's Old Grey Whistle Test...NUTZ!
Until now unreleased in any format, it
reveals the Liverpool band’s talent for melody and theatricality in a
rolling blitz of tight, showy classic rock with glints of metal shining away
under the surface.
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Nutz (MSMCD153)
Michael Chapman (MSMCD151) [Release date 22.03.10]
Virtuoso guitarist and
critically-acclaimed songwriter, championed by John Peel and later Charles
Shaar Murray, Michael Chapman recorded a quartet of classic LPs for EMI's
progressive Harvest label during the 1970s. Chapman's extensive touring fast
won him a passionate following, evidenced on this until-now unreleased live
set.
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Michael Chapman (MSMCD151)
Sonja Kristina (MSMCD150) [Release date 11.01.10] 'Harmonics of Love', is an album that bridges Sonja Kristina's progressive rock and acid folk past with the electronic experimentalism that was to emerge in the noughties via a giddy 'new age' rush of melodic and ambient music connecting acousticity to studio effects and natural sounds sampled from locations as disparate as the Amazon rain forest and that year's Glastonbury Festival. Bonus tracks for this enhanced reissue take in later work including a Motorhead cover (!) and output from her current project MASK.
Collectable 6-panel digisleeve with
8pp booklet including revised artist
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Sonja Kristina (MSMCD150)
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