Chris Letcher
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Chris Letcher is a South African singer/songwriter and film composer based in London.
[edit] Recent work
Chris Letcher and his band recently toured South Africa in support of the release of the album Frieze, which is due to be released in the UK and the rest of the world in 2007. The band played the 2007 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas in March following a few dates in the US. It was the band's first time over to the states. Chris and the band played the Oppikoppi and Spier festivals in South Africa over Easter.
The mix of styles, wild monkeys and amazing[neutrality disputed] country side make the Oppikoppi like nowhere else. Letcher has also recently completed the soundtrack to Claire Angelique's forthcoming film for Zerntropa studios, My Black Little Heart, and is studying towards a doctorate in film music composition at the Royal College of Music in London. Chris has released five critically acclaimed albums of his own work. The new album Frieze has been receiving rave reviews[citation needed] in South Africa and was nominated for 2 SAMA's.
Chris is performing with: David Eugene Webb (drums/accordion), Chris Letcher (guitar/harmonium/synths/singing), Andrew Joseph (bass), Ross Richardson (guitar/voice) and Victoria Hume (keyboards, voice).
[edit] Press quotes
FHM magazine (Feb 2007) describe the album, Frieze, as "the most sophisticated rock album ever made by a South African Artist" . The Mail and Guardian (Nov 2006): "Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa".
"This is simply a great album. Truly world class. Intricate, complex, melodic, ambitious, funny, literate and so damn listenable it will make you gasp... Probably the best songwriter this country has produced for years" - ***** Jeremy Daniel, The Star
"The album Frieze illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa. Its 16 tracks are typical Letcher fare -- intimate literary excursions. But, these new songs are transformed into a mature collage of sound " **** Lloyd Gedye, Mail & Guardian
"A 16-track album, Frieze is everything that Letcher promised in those early years -- keenly intelligent, musically dense, utterly memorable, always sliding through any attempts to nail it down to a genre. In its expansive musical vision that is unafraid to hook in experimental sounds - Letcher's solo offering could be called art rock or art pop even but even then these descriptions really don't do justice to Frieze... It's impossible not to be drawn into the highly visual and moody lyrical content." Diane Coetzer, Entertainment Africa
“This is the most sophisticated rock album ever made by a South African artist…multi-layered rock with genius-clever lyrics and a mysterious soothing quality”- ***** FHM
“I like. I like a lot…Letcher’s crisp urgent tones come across like a handclap” - **** Damon Boyd, Sunday Times
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