SEALED Promo '70 Michael Chapman SURVIVOR UK Folk Prog

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RARE 1970 PROMOTIONAL  ~ UK Underground Folkrock Gem      

             MICHAEL CHAPMAN

    Fully Qualified Survivor

                       ...USA - HARVEST RECORDS - SW 816  

ORIGINAL STILL SEALED 1970 first pressing advance release PROMOTIONAL...Scarce like most of the early pre-EMI Harvest albums, very few sold in substantial numbers and this is no real exception. Although, due to the airplay given by John Peel, who was a big fan of this man, it did make a brief chart appearance at #45. This is a fantastic copy also and its one that will never be found easily.

Again, 1970's "Fully Qualified Survivor" has that certain UK 'Harvest' sound to it. A figurehead on the UK folk scene, Michael Chapman emerged from a long erratic involvement in that rather nebulous folk tradition to write very personal and unusual songs, full of rhythm and unexpected corners and unlikely dimensions.

Though the basic mood remains the same his first album ("Rainmaker") from a year before, but the sound here has grown in density and penetration and there are no loose ends. Cello and violin spin and swoop around "Aviator" and carve a sound picture of despair within its rambling structure and haunting images. Beautiful. the following year's Fully Qualified Survivor is packed with emotion-soaked gems. Having served his time on the northern folk circuit, these albums must have come as a shock to the ear-tugging traditionalists. Electric guitars, sentimental strings, loose snare drums and arrangements, make Chapman's albums strange hybrids and all the more attractive for it. Nearly 40 years on, his dreamy folk groove, a grittier take on John Martyn with a splash of Roy Harper, and some spacey guitar from Mick Ronson on Survivor is well worth the hunt.

• Michael Chapman - guitar, piano, vocals;
• Mick Ronson - guitar;
• Barry Morgan - drums, congas;
• Rick Kemp - bass.

Side 1: Aviator; Naked Ladies and Electric Ragtime; Stranger in the Room; Postcards of Scarborough

Side 2: Fishbeard Sunset; Soulful Lady; Rabbit Hills; March Rain; Kodak Ghosts; Andru’s Easy Rider; Trinkets and Rings.

CONDITION: A perfect STILL SEALED 1970 promotional copy, never opened (circle promo hole near top left corner is the standard mark for Capitol/Harvest promotional albums) ...no seam splits, no bends, no writing anywhere...it's a top (RARE) original collectible

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