this dude doesn't even have a wikipedia page, but he recorded some classic albums in the early 1970s and went in a few interesting, unexpected, artier directions in decades since. the 'rayon hula' album is a recent favorite. what do you people know or think of the albums that fall in the middle?
discuss mike cooper here.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 16 September 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
poor mike cooper can't catch a break, even on ILM.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 16 September 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
matt cooper records as eluvium. does that help?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 September 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
I saw The Recedents once, his improv trio with Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner. They were way better than most free-form inprov trios I've seen, and iirc they were all wearing hawaiian shirts.
― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
I dig his Borders CD (2006). Haven't heard any other albums. Just a coupla more songs on compilations.
― t**t, Friday, 16 September 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
This is someone I always meant to investigate. The only record of his I have is his split album with Ian Anderson (later editor of Folk Roots), The Inverted World, which is possibly his first record and seemed kind of dull and trad sounding the one time I tried it.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
www.cooparia.com
― t**t, Friday, 16 September 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
i can't even find this dude's records on the blogosphere, and all the early ones are OOP or japanese issues costing way too much $$$. what the hell.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
trout steel is fucking great. why does nobody know who this dude is?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 23 October 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
this album is wonderful
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
trout steel i mean
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
haha amateurist ahead of the curve. yeah dude, all of the records paradise of bachelors just reissued are kind of astonishing. new steve gunn collab is great too.
― tylerw, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
if i could only cash in on being ahead of the curve!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 29 June 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
and yeah, he is great. seems like kind of a weird dude. i like rayon hula a lot --kind of an exotic-pop-ambient thing.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 29 June 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
Recently saw this guy as part of a duo supporting Sir Richard Bishop and it was, ummmmmm, kinda terrible tbh
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 June 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
say more...
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 29 June 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Well I didn't feel too badly towards the musicians, it was improv, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, it didn't this time.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 30 June 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
I think I like the current one, wasn't too familiar with him before
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 9 June 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
rayon hula reissue's sounding v good on this hot overcast day, in a dreamily-drift-about-the-post-apocalyptic pacific/your own fried subconscious kind of way. he seems like an all round mensch
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up!! Wasn't aware of the reissue
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
his first recordings in his ambient/exotica/oceanic dreamtime style, kiribati and globe notes, from 1999, have been reissued & are a delight
“My (musician) friend Ab Baars told me a story of his being transported through the night in Bali as a boy. The night sounds and different music and voices he heard as he passed silently, half awake, half dreaming, through the villages.”
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Friday, 29 May 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
Newest one sounding really nicehttps://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/forbidden-delta-planet-blues
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 10 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
i agree
― nxd, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link