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The image features an artistic album cover titled "Earth Day Blue" by Nick Harper. It includes a surreal montage of elements: a guitar and clock positioned on a colorful backdrop, a motorcycle rider, a figure in a cowboy hat, and a tree with a butterfly. Various vibrant colors and textures create a dynamic and imaginative scene.
An overhead view of a music performance taking place in a spacious room. A musician sits with a guitar on a small stage, while an audience, seated on red chairs, attentively listens. The room is illuminated by stage lights, with various equipment and a microphone visible.
A musician seated and playing an acoustic guitar, wearing a vibrant red shirt. He is captured in a recording studio setting, surrounded by sound equipment and soft lighting, with a microphone positioned nearby.
A man with short, slightly tousled hair is sitting and playing an acoustic guitar. He is wearing a red shirt with intricate white patterns. A microphone hangs above him, and the background features a textured gray surface, suggesting a recording studio environment.
A musician sits on a chair, playing an acoustic guitar, wearing glasses and a cap. In the background, a person stands upright, likely rehearsing or preparing, within a spacious room featuring wooden flooring and several studio equipment stands.
A digital artwork featuring a character personifying nature, with vibrant green foliage and flowers entwined in long hair. She holds a bottle of Tabasco sauce in one hand and a smartphone displaying an Earth image in the other. The background is a mystical blue, with the text "EARTH DAY BLUE" and "nick harper" prominently displayed at the bottom.
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The image features an artistic album cover titled "Earth Day Blue" by Nick Harper. It includes a surreal montage of elements: a guitar and clock positioned on a colorful backdrop, a motorcycle rider, a figure in a cowboy hat, and a tree with a butterfly. Various vibrant colors and textures create a dynamic and imaginative scene.
An overhead view of a music performance taking place in a spacious room. A musician sits with a guitar on a small stage, while an audience, seated on red chairs, attentively listens. The room is illuminated by stage lights, with various equipment and a microphone visible.
A musician seated and playing an acoustic guitar, wearing a vibrant red shirt. He is captured in a recording studio setting, surrounded by sound equipment and soft lighting, with a microphone positioned nearby.
A man with short, slightly tousled hair is sitting and playing an acoustic guitar. He is wearing a red shirt with intricate white patterns. A microphone hangs above him, and the background features a textured gray surface, suggesting a recording studio environment.
A musician sits on a chair, playing an acoustic guitar, wearing glasses and a cap. In the background, a person stands upright, likely rehearsing or preparing, within a spacious room featuring wooden flooring and several studio equipment stands.
A digital artwork featuring a character personifying nature, with vibrant green foliage and flowers entwined in long hair. She holds a bottle of Tabasco sauce in one hand and a smartphone displaying an Earth image in the other. The background is a mystical blue, with the text "EARTH DAY BLUE" and "nick harper" prominently displayed at the bottom.
A wall with a textured brick background features a prominent sign that reads "ABBEY ROAD NW8" and "CITY OF WESTMINSTER." The sign is surrounded by various graffiti and stickers, including playful messages and illustrations, creating a vibrant and urban atmosphere.

Earth Day Blue CD

Nick Harper's new album Earth Day Blue with gatefold art by Fal and 16 page booklet

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Nick Harper - Earth Day Blue

Recorded in Abbey Road Studio 2 on Earth Day 2024, September sees the 14th studio album release from Nick Harper, the wildly talented and much loved singer-songwriter. With John Leckie in the producer’s chair (Stone Roses, Radiohead, Muse etc.) and Tchad Blake mixing (Tom Waits, Crowded House, Peter Gabriel etc.), ‘Earth Day Blue' is a flash mob of high calibre talent assembled for a few hours’ collaboration in a very special space. 

       But this was not the first time Nick and John had been in session together in Studio 2. It was way back in 1973, in the very same room, that Nick was given his ‘big break’ in the world of music. The duo first ‘worked’ together when Nick, aged 8, recorded his first ever songs with John whilst Nick’s father Roy was recording his own seminal album 'Lifemask' with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. So the circle has been squared off and the journey is complete!

        'Earth Day Blue' is peppered with acoustic ear-worms written with a Studio 2 Beatlesque approach of short, immediate songs, but with the added brio of a group of studio attendees sometimes driven to sing along to Nick’s guitar and voice, adding a party atmosphere to the day. Along the way, Nick displays all his (un)usual talents, from his trademark virtuoso string-bending guitar playing and references to the time of his previous session with John on the paean to Joni Mitchell 'Joni If Only ..' to his penchant for prose poems when describing the scene at Abbey Road in the 70s in 'The Lady In The Fur Coat’.

        The recording captures what John says is the magic of a live performance in a controlled recording environment, though, in a space such as this, dripping with portent and legacy (on a personal level for the two as well as to a worldwide community of Abbey Road fanatics) there is a tangible, added depth of poignancy and emotion underlying the album. For Nick Harper fans and for new fans alike, it is all here in unadorned beauty, a recording that witnesses a solo artist without dilution or compromise, nor studio trickery or production prop, having a great day performing in one of the most hallowed rooms on the planet.