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A veteran of the British blues\/folk\/jazz scene, Chapman emerged in 1966 and continued working throughout his life, always pushing the boundaries of his creations while collaborating with a slew of similarly heralded musicians along the way: Bert Jansch, Mick Ronson, Elton John, Thurston Moore, Steve Gunn; to name just a smattering of those he worked alongside over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the latter of those “ Brooklyn guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn “ who Chapman flourished alongside in recent years, the two collaborating on 50 and True North, two of Chapman's final and finest records. It was through that friendship that Chapman's music found Andrew Tuttle, the Brisbane-based multi-instrumentalist who has toured Australia several times alongside Gunn. In the aftermath of Chapman's passing, his partner Andru discovered Tuttle's Fleeting Adventure LP, describing it as one of the albums that kept me sane during that first brutal winter on my own. The pair met in Australia shortly after, and before Andru had even made it back home to the north of England, Tuttle had begun working on the recordings she shared with him at that time. Those recordings were part of a project Chapman was working on at the time of his death, called Another Fish “ what would have been a companion piece to his previously-released LP, simply called Fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough Chapman had spent time in his local studio playing all the guitars, layering the different sounds and effects, he'd always intended to do much more work on the songs, however fate had its way and he never got to ribbon-bow those ideas and bring the album to its conclusion. Though there was little intention in terms of how to finalise the project, Tuttle spent valuable time with those recordings. What materialised, eventually - with time, care, and diligent attention - is a two-disc set Another Tide, Another Fish, something both unusual and completely distinctive. The first disc, Another Tide is centred around Tuttle's own work, which shaped all seven of Michael's songs and ideas into new songs of their own, and the second disc which simply incorporates the recordings that Michael left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn all of the tracks I also played along' on banjo to the originals several times until I learned an approximation, Tuttle continues. This ended up resulting in a hybrid', where some works are easily identifiable to those who know Michael's originals, and some took that inspiration to head altogether elsewhere. Each of the tracks, even where not obvious, does have at the very least a trace element sample of the original recordings so that it's a true collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat we're left with is indeed a hybrid: part remix album, part cover album, both a solo work and a collaboration, of sorts. Inspired by Chapman's original ideas and with new track titles directly referencing the numbered but otherwise untitled source material, Tuttle adds his own flashes of colours throughout, including editing, sampling, MIDI transposing and signal processing that twists these songs into beautiful new shapes. Perhaps Tuttle's greatest achievement here then is that Another Tide sounds so effortlessly free of all this context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you know Michael's, Andrew's or even Andru's story or not, these recordings will bristle with enchantment and intrigue, worlds are built, and while some thrive and grow, others fizzle out in a burst of light, such is the way. 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As usual, the songs are mostly improvised and recorded in one take, layering instruments over a drone base. The exception is The Night it Darkens All Around Me, which was semi-improvised and with lyrics captured in an almost stream of consciousness style. “I had no melody worked out, I just sang them over the drone, the melody came to me and we kept the first take to keep it raw and natural, just a kind of ghost story and my thoughts in that moment”. 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