The Great Escape, by Neil Campbell

The Great Escape

by Neil Campbell

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1.	Symzonia 03:18	buy track
2.	Incident in Rio 02:29	buy track
3.	Solar Monarch 03:43	buy track
4.	Don and Walt's Hawaiian Vacation 02:30	buy track
5.	Land Locked 03:14	buy track
6.	Passport to Magonia 06:47	buy track
7.	Another Estuary 03:21	buy track
8.	September 02:14	buy track
9.	Masquerade 03:35	buy track
10.	Spanish Feat 01:57	buy track
11.	Jazz Hands 02:43	buy track
12.	The Great Escape 05:02	buy track

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Recorded during the lockdown year of 2020, 'The Great Escape' is a musical travelogue, a testament to the power of music to transport us to new islands of our own imagining.

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"Neil manages to infuse ambient, classical, contemporary, folk, jazz and progressive music into an accessible and creative art form... Once again, [his] long collaboration with producer/engineer Jon Lawton guarantees a warm and sympathetic production, allowing the numerous instrumental layers, clarity and definition." - Bob Mulvey, The Progressive Aspect

"‘The Great Escape’ could be a soundtrack to the film of our recent lives. In its beauty, scope and elevated perspective, this album is a revelation, and one possible cure for your winter blues." - Tom Calderbank, Nerve Magazine

"Art in such glorious delivery is that perfect sense of escape, if a recording such as the one on offer by Neil Campbell can produce such feelings of intense, boundless freedom, then it has not only done its job, it has committed the listener to seeking out a truth, one that must be removed from its cage and given the independence to express itself" - Ian D Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision

"Tasteful and elegant compositions with the acoustic guitar as a central and dominant presence with a restrained and tasteful execution ... if that sounds interesting and you also tend to fancy instrumental music of this kind with a jazz orientation chances are good that you will find this album to be most interesting indeed. A solid creation... " - 5/6 stars - Progressor.net

"for me the twelve tracks presented here really are rather special and while I’ve long been an admirer of Neil Campbell’s guitar work and composing-craft, in my estimation this might just be his best album yet." 4.5 stars - Steven Reid, Sea of Tranquility

"Each track beautifully constructed and composed, the captivating album has the listener completely engrossed from start to finish... Wonderful work as ever from one of Liverpool’s real treasures." - Justin Hopper, La Vida Liverpool

"truly a modern gem of instrumental acoustic songcraft" - Peter Thelen, Expose

"Campbell is a fine player who seems at home in most any style of guitar, steel or nylon strings. Good listening!" - Kirk Albrecht, The Minor 7th

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released December 17, 2021

Composed by Neil Campbell

Neil Campbell (classical, acoustic, electric and bass guitars, keyboards and sundry percussion)
Viktor Nordberg (drums on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 & 12)
Amy Chalmers (violin on track 5)
Jon Lawton (additional percussion and programning)

Engineered by Jon Lawton at Crosstown Studios
Produced by Neil Campbell and Jon Lawton
Mastering by Jon Lawton

Cover photo by Mike Parr, used with thanks.
Neil Campbell photo by Jon Lawton, taken during the Great Escape sessions.
Design by Paul Hunt

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Neil Campbell Liverpool, UK

Liverpool composer and multi-instrumentalist.

‘One of the best acoustic guitar players of our time’ - Jon Neudorf, Sea of Tranquility

“Neil Campbell remains one the U.K.’s shamefully undiscovered contemporary composers, and I for one hope a larger audience awaits him soon” - Bob Mulvey, TPA

'music of serious quality and distinction' - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music ... more

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