SEALED Promo '70 Michael Chapman SURVIVOR UK Folk Prog

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RARE 1970 PROMOTIONAL ORIGINAL ~ UK Underground Folkrock Gem                                                                       

            Roger Chapman

          Fully Qualified Survivor

\                                                    USA - Harvest Records - SW 816

STILL SEALED 1972 promotional original copy of compelling UK folk/prog/psych artist on the highly collected Harvest Records label...the album has always been a hard find as a USA pressing, this one STILL SEALED, no less.

Again,1970's "Fully Qualified Survivor" has that certain 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.

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

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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