Michael Chapman - Rainmaker 1969 Harvest - original vinyl. Prog Psych Folk RARE
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Hi! You are viewing an impossibly rare original 1969 pressing of the 1st Michael Chapman album 'Rainmaker' with the gatefold sleeve used on first pressings. I have owned the album since 1984. It was bought 2nd hand but was in a gatefold plastic folder when I bought it & has been kept in it ever since. It has not been played for years as I taped the LP on to a cassette, which I upgraded to a CD copy many years later. Therefore the album plays with only a slight amount of surface noise. The only mark on the album is on the last two tracks, which makes a slight audible click. (the mark is visible). There is a small amount of spindle wear. The inner sleeve is original, with a good quality plastic inner as well as the paper inner sleeve. The outsideof the cover is laminated, but as is often the case with covers from this era thelaminate does not quite reach to the opening edge. This has resultedin some scruffiness to the unlaminated edges, but sleeve is otherwisein very good shape, with minimal shelfwear. This also applies to the spine, which has shelf creasing only, with slight cracks to the laminate edge.
Now to the record itself: Chapman holds a middle line between John Martyn & Bert Jansch. Among bluesy Dylanesque melodies, there are open tune workouts as well as modal guitar structures, with the occasional electric progressive workouts. Both are put to fine use on the opener, "It Didn'tWork Out," a gorgeous broken love ballad with a philosophicalbent, along with doleful resigned vocals; the electric guitars cascade overfingerpicked acoustics, and acoustic and electric basses -- courtesyof Rick Kemp, Danny Thompson etc. Old-English melody styles, traditional or blues styles,such as the dark, menacing folk-blues of "No One Left toCare," fuses a rock pulse to the folk or blues song, open-tuning his guitars tosuch a degree that drones created multiple tones and a solid bottomfor his voice to pounce down upon. They also create a sense ofemotional honesty not so prevalent on the scene at the time.
This is craftsmanship in an era of many craftsmen, a record which is very hard to find, especially in this condition, which is now sadly disappearing to the annals of a fondly remembered period in history.
If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me. Overseas bidders, please contact me for a postage quote. Payment to be instigated within 48 hours of the auction ending.
Many thanks for looking.
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