{"id":76817,"date":"2022-07-20T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=76817"},"modified":"2022-07-20T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:19:20","slug":"chris-lewington-has-been-making-music-for-a-long-time-and-achieved-critical-acclaim-but-now-he-has-a-solo-project-a-new-ep-and-an-album-on-the-way-he-chatted-with-essentially-pop-recently-about-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/07\/chris-lewington-has-been-making-music-for-a-long-time-and-achieved-critical-acclaim-but-now-he-has-a-solo-project-a-new-ep-and-an-album-on-the-way-he-chatted-with-essentially-pop-recently-about-his\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Lewington Has Been Making Music For A Long Time And Achieved Critical Acclaim But Now He Has A Solo Project, A New EP, And An Album On The Way. He Chatted With Essentially Pop Recently About His Music."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chris Lewington is one of our most talented singer-songwriters who has been making music since his early teens when he first picked up a guitar. He first found inspiration in the music of Ennio Morricone with his iconic themes for the 60\u2019s Italian Westerns and also John Barry with his stylish movie music. This provided a framework of brilliance on which he slowly built his own distinctive style as he continued on to find inspiration in the singer songwriter genius of Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, artists who could combine the complexity of human emotion with a timeless melody to create three minute masterpieces. These two inspirations may seem to be very different but what they all shared was the ability to create something thematic and yet memorable; there is no point having a message if nobody remembers it.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chris Lewington has developed his music from his first band \u2018The Silence\u2019 in the early 80\u2019s to his next project \u2018The Bicycle Thieves\u2019, with their REM like style, who gained Radio 1 airplay and garnered the TDK Songwriter award in 1989. By the early 90\u2019s Chris had returned to his singer songwriter roots to create \u2018The Famous Blue Raincoats\u2019, a folky acoustic band that performed in more intimate venues around London. After that Chris started to concentrate on his writing and creating new material for various publishers until 2018 when he decided he was ready to embark on his solo career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018 Chris released his first official full length album, happy that home technology had advanced to a point where quality would not suffer by home recording and naming the release after the street where it was recorded. \u2018Landells Road\u2019 was followed by the sophomore \u2018Riverside\u2019 in 2020 and the new record \u2018Starfish Memories\u2019 will drop in August of this year. The pre-release EP includes four very different songs: \u2018The Bridge at Midnight\u2019, \u2018Blue Skies, Fields of Gold\u2019, \u2018Radio, Radio\u2019 and \u2018It\u2019s Going to Be Okay\u2019 and I\u2019d really recommend a download to get a flavour of what I think might be Chris\u2019s most accomplished music to date. I can\u2019t wait and so I was thrilled to get the chance to pose Chris a few questions, especially as our musical journeys started with exactly the same record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP:\u00a0 I remember growing up, the first LP I ever bought was A Fistful of Dollars\/ For a Few Dollars More soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. I then discovered a shop in Covent Garden called Soundtrack & General who sent out a monthly newsletter and did mail order. I’ve been building my collection ever since. I understand The Maestro had a similar hold on you. How did he influence your music and what’s your favourite work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL:<\/strong> Yes, my first love musically as a kid was movie themes and I used to collect the Geoff Love mfp LPs where he\u2019d do different genres particularly Westerns. And I just remember that the Ennio Morricone ones he did were a bit edgier so I thought next purchase I\u2019ll get an Ennio Morricone soundtrack album, probably that same soundtrack you got- Orangey sort of background; the one with Clint doing his \u201cyou cursing my mule\u201d look and three sort of bad assed Mexican baddies lining up for a shoot out on the front. And that just blew me away. The mix of Link Ray guitar, howling screams, sudden choral climaxes, whips and gunshots, big orchestral blasts. If there\u2019s a lasting impression he left with me, it\u2019s add the unexpected. I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever sounded like him or tried to because Morricone is Morricone and it\u2019s a very set style. There\u2019s I think a Danish band, Salem who kind of do songs in that style but while they\u2019re good you know it\u2019s a pastiche of the real thing. For me it\u2019s still the early 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s Spaghetti Western themes that are his master works. So revolutionary. If I have a favourite it\u2019s got to be Navajo Joe. I mean the movie itself is abysmal but that theme tune. It opens with this complete scream that just crescendos into an even more manic scream. You know the rest of the movie world is doing these big conventional orchestral things all up-tempo, riding the range, Magnificent 7 or Big Country and there\u2019s Ennio giving you some guy screaming his guts out as the film\u2019s opening piece. Brilliant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP:\u00a0 Your musical journey has encompassed many genres and you’ve experienced critical acclaim in all of them. Do you feel particularly drawn to one genre or are you genre fluid these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL<\/strong>: If I have to nail my colours to a genre I\u2019d go singer-songwriter. Because at heart that\u2019s what I am and it also covers a broad range of styles. I mean Neil Young is a singer songwriter and one track he\u2019s just being very melancholy him with an acoustic guitar and another he\u2019s belting it out with \u2018Crazy Horse Rocking in the Free World\u2019. I\u2019ve kind of stretched genres like that in what I\u2019ve done. There\u2019s almost a metalish track on my first solo album \u201cWatching You Watching Me\u201d then on my second album \u201cRiverside\u201d there\u2019s a Rupert Brooke’s poem set to a classical style orchestral piece. The upcoming album \u201cStarfish Memories\u201d kind of mixes it. There\u2019s acoustic intimate ballads, there\u2019s up-tempo rockers, there\u2019s a kind of Fleetwood Mac style song, there\u2019s a very 60\u2019s sort of harmonies style track. Obviously the trick is to still retain an overriding style or sound that is me that holds all the tracks together. A bit like the Beatles who managed to pull it off – there\u2019s an Edwardian dance hall one next to a bit of sitar playing next to a psychedelic freak out here- but it still couldn\u2019t be anything other than a Beatles album. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP:\u00a0 Recent technology has meant that music can be home produced to great effect and high standard. If you don’t have a producer, who acts as your quality filter?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL<\/strong>: My girlfriend. She\u2019s my A and R person. I wrote an entirely different set of lyrics for \u201cRadio, Radio\u201d and she just said nope doesn\u2019t work. So I rewrote it and she was alright. She\u2019ll tell me if the bass is too heavy in the mix or to change the last line of \u2018It\u2019ll Be Okay\u2019 so that it went up, to end it more positive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP:\u00a0 You have worked with the legendary Tony Visconti. What was that experience like and how has he helped you and the direction your music evolved in?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL:<\/strong> The Bicycle Thieves recorded a track with him producing. While it was a great experience to obviously be working with a rock and roll legend and it was great hearing tales of Bowie and Marc Bolan back in the day I wouldn\u2019t say I gained much musically from it. I mean I\u2019d like to go back in time and tell my younger self to ask him a ton of questions about how he was recording this and that but that\u2019s because now I have had to learn and take on the role of producer\/ engineer and there\u2019s a whole world of EQ, panning, compressors, limiters etc. that just went over my head then that I\u2019d love to sit down now with him and get his tips on. Then I was just focused on my playing and vocal performance. To be brutally honest and I\u2019m not really singling out Visconti here just in general, a good engineer always counts more than a producer. The engineer is the person that\u2019s going to mic up your guitar or make the difference between your voice sounding wonderful or weedy. If you\u2019ve got an idea about how you want to sound and what you\u2019re about then that\u2019s what you need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP:\u00a0 Your pre album release EP for \u2018Starfish Memories\u2019 has four very different tracks. I love ‘It\u2019s Going to Be Ok’; it seems the perfect anthem as we hopefully emerge from COVID and get back to live music. What’s the inspiration for that track?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL<\/strong>: Spot on. ‘It\u2019s Going to Be Ok\u2019 is written as a post COVID song. It\u2019s oblique; you don\u2019t need to take it as that but that was at the back of my mind in writing it. Basically from the point of view of a nurse on an A and E ward. I mean the COVID experience was strange. The first year of the pandemic, for me that Spring was actually a lovely time, I live in the country I could get out in the countryside and walk, it was spring, birds were singing, no traffic, everyone off work taking it easy. It was quite lovely. But then you\u2019d watch the news and realize yeah nice for you mate but it’s a war zone elsewhere for other people particularly in the hospitals where medical staff were close to breaking point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP: Your new album drops late August. What can we expect and will you be touring the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL<\/strong>: Album drops August 26th. No, unfortunately I won\u2019t be touring. I\u2019d love to get out and play the songs live but it\u2019s logistics. I can\u2019t justify putting a band together, to rehearse and then do a few dates for an artist at my level. I could go out and play the songs solo, me and guitar but then it wouldn\u2019t be the album experience. It would sound very different. So as such my solo music career is a purely recording venture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EP: How can people follow your new solo output and what can we expect for the future?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CL<\/strong>: In the future who knows. Last song I wrote was quite a folk style piece but I couldn\u2019t say if that\u2019s where I\u2019m going. I\u2019d quite like to do more orchestral or string arrangements. Go a bit Scott Walker. Whatever I end up doing I expect it\u2019ll be quite an eclectic mix. You can listen to me on any streaming service. From Spotify<\/a> and Apple Music to Tencent in China and Saavan in India. You can find my videos on YouTube<\/a> at Chris Lewington Music and like many indie artists you can buy my albums and singles from Bandcamp<\/a>. Or you can check out my website at www.chrislewington.co.uk<\/a> and my Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Holley speaks with Kent singer songwriter Chris Lewington about his new EP and upcoming album.<\/p>\n

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