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Posted By: GUEST,John_Miles_of_Smiles
21-Jan-12 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: Michael Chapman & Dean McPhee, London Jan 29
Subject: MICHAEL CHAPMAN & DEAN McPHEE in London
Hello, it's a while since I posted on here, but I thought it worth me sharing word of an imminent inter-generational bout between two of the UK's finest solo guitarists, MICHAEL CHAPMAN and DEAN McPHEE.
SUNDAY 29TH JANUARY 2012 DOORS 7PM
THE LEXINGTON 96 PENTONVILLE ROAD ISLINGTON LONDON (ANGEL / KINGS X TUBE)
WWW.THELEXINGTON.CO.UK
£6 ON THE DOOR PLACES CAN BE HELD BY EMAILING INFO@BLASTFIRSTPETITE.COM COLLECTION BEFORE 6.30
Yorkshire songwriter and finger-picking guitarist MICHAEL CHAPMAN draws glimmering chords of connection both personal and stylistic between the likes of John Martyn and Roy Harper (associates in the fecund British folk scene of the late 60s) and contemporary players such as Thurston Moore and the late Jack Rose.
Indeed, the seeds for Chapman's recent (and, remarkably, first ever improvised) album 'The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock' were sown in conversation with Moore following a show with Rose in Philidelphia. The title may be derived from the John Fahey track 'The Death of Clayton Peacock', but this astonishing record announces a rich stylistic alchemy of Chapman's sole devising. An almost shamanistic chase between the reverential and ecstatic musics of multiple traditions, including warm, Takoma-school blues runs, shredding psychedelic solos, displaced gamelan peals and the Griot click of thumb piano.
Justly lauded by The Wire magazine as one of the top ten albums of 2011, for this very special show to mark the LP reissue of the record Chapman will play 'The Resurrection of Clayton Peacock' (side one of the record), with a band including McPhee and young Manchester guitarist Daniel Land.
"Chapman [sounds] as surprised (and delighted) as the listener to hear the waves of energy he lets loose from his instrument... the iridescence of the playing is dazzling." (The Wire Magazine)
"Michael Chapman is an expert folk player just as liable to veer off into jazz, progressive, ragtime, hard rock or experimental directions." (Wall Street Journal)
DEAN McPHEE is a Lancastrian finger-picking electric guitarist now based in West Yorkshire. His gorgeously liquid, pure-toned playing is supremely evocative of the small splendours and grand transitions of the natural environment. His magnificent debut album proper 'Son of the Black Peace' has cemented the reputation won by debut EP Brown Bear.
"Dean McPhee's debut conjures pellucid, iridescent worlds with little more than a Fender Telecaster, a tremelo pedal and a litany of liquid runs and baroque, improvised figures". (MOJO Magazine).
"The hallmark of McPhee's style is a picked bassline and free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arab-esques… Son of the Black Peace is a 37 minute gem of an album" (The Wire Magazine)