Elkington

After five decades of recording and touring, veteran British songwriter and guitar sage Michael Chapman has finally made what he calls his “American record,” and the aptly titled 50 now stands as his late career masterwork, a moving legacy statement by a legend. Backed by a collaborative group of friends and acolytes—Steve Gunn (who also produced), Nathan Bowles (Pelt), James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy), Jason Meagher (No-Neck Blues Band), Jimi SeiTang (Rhyton), and fellow UK songwriting luminary Bridget St John—Chapman tears into both bold renderings of new songs and radical reinterpretations of material from his revered catalog, the crack band adeptly scaling the same rarefied sonic heights of classic Harvest albums like Fully Qualified Survivor, guided by a true survivor’s instinct, wit, and wisdom. The result is a sublime chiaroscuro self-portrait, more shadow than light, as an invigorated Chapman wrestles with weighty themes of travel, memory, mortality, and redemption, his world-weary whispers assuming the incandescent power of prophecy.

• Details how sacred sites resonate at the same frequencies as both the Earth and the alpha waves of the human brain
• Shows how human writing in its original hieroglyphic form was a direct response to the divine sound patterns of sacred sites
• Explains how ancient hero myths from around the world relate to divine acoustic science and formed the source of religion

David Bowie, Radiohead, The War On Drugs and Gregg Allman all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated August 2017 and on sale on June 15.
Bowie is on the cover, and inside we take a close look at The Dame’s 1960s and learn from friends, lovers and accomplices how he became the majestic Ziggy Stardust.