MAPS: The Echoes Interview
Weekend listeners hear the artist known as MAPS who has been making exquisitely crafted dreampop music for most of this century. MAPS is James Chapman and we heard from him recently for his production of Emma Andrerson‘s Pearlies album. While many artists went introspective during pandemic lockdown, James Chapman decided to synthesize joy on the all-instrumental electronic album, Counter Melodies.
James Chapman: “I actually started working on those tracks during the first lockdown, so kind of 2020 and obviously it was a really depressing time. And I think I wanted to do something really uplifting and upbeat, just as a kind of antidote, really.”
We talk toJames Chapman of Maps about counter melodies and more.