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October 27, 2024: The Mike Cooper Chronicles, Episode 2
English-born world-wanderer Mike Cooper plays various real and virtual guitars, including lap steel guitar, and he sings; he is an improviser and composer, a song-maker, a visual and
installation artist; film and video maker, and radio arts producer. His long, adventurous musical journey began as a key member of the 60's British folk movement, and has traced a path across oceans, around this earth, this galaxy, and beyond.
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Artist | Track | Album | Comments | Images | Approx. start time |
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Intro - with your humble DJ | |||||
Mike Cooper | The Lost Steps | Playing with Water | Playing With Water is a novel written by James Hamilton-Paterson. | 0:02:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper speaks: | Lost Steps to The Shell | 0:06:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Mike Cooper with The Recedents | The Shell | Wishing You Were Here | (From a 5-CD box-set, dedicated to the memory of Lol Coxhil, who passed in 2012) Small Drumset – Roger Turner; Casio SK1 Keyboard – Lol Coxhill; [Electric Lap Steel Guitar – Mike Cooper; Soprano Saxophone – Lol Coxhill; Homemade String Instrument, ,Radio, Cassette Tape– Mike Cooper; EMS Synthi-A – Roger Turner; Electronics,; Crackle Box – Lol Coxhill; Voice, Tape – Lol Coxhill - -recorded in Belgium 1985 | 0:14:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Midnight Words | The Machine Gun Company | Electric Bass – Les Calvert; §§§Electric Piano – Alan Cook; §§§Percussion – Tim Richardson; §§§Saxophone, Melodica, Pipe [Reed Pipe] – Geoff Hawkins; §§§Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Guitar [Bottleneck] – Mike Cooper; §§§Written-By – Mike Cooper. - - - Recorded during two All-Night Sessions on June, 28th & 30th 1971 | 0:19:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | The Singing Tree | The Machine Gun Company | Same as "The Shell," above | 0:23:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper with Jim McCauley | Fragile Corners | Fragile Corners | All songs improvised by Mike Cooper and Jim McAuley on a variety of acoustic guitars. - released 2021 | 0:28:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Sundown | Unreleased Live Private Recording | This is a live version of the great Son House’s song - I have no idea where it is from. Played on my National Tri-Cone resophonic lap steel guitar.(date unknown) | 0:31:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Beached | White Shadows in the South Seas | Mike Cooper’s homage to Arthur Lyman - one of many films I have performed live accompaniment to. Released 2013 | 0:37:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper speaks: | The Shell to Beaches | 0:40:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Mike Cooper | I've Got Mine | Trout Steel | *Mike Cooper - Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar *Harry Miller - Double Bass *Roy Babbington - Double Bass, Electric Bass *Alan Jackson - Drums, Percussion *Bill Boazman - Guitar *Stefan Grossman - Guitar *John Taylor - Piano *Mike Osborne - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet *Geoff Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone, Flute *Alan Skidmore - Tenor, Soprano Saxophone *Jerry Field - Violin *Nick Pickett - Violin *The Heron - Vocals The session was recorded at Pye and Recorded Sound studios, August and Sept. 1970 | 1:06:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | What Cares Paradise | White Shadows in the South Seas | 1:18:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Mike Cooper | Baarish ke Baad (Sri Lanka After Rain) | Playing With Water | Playing With Water is a novel written by James Hamilton-Paterson- Featuring my virtual lap-steel guitar - -Recorded at Steelworks, 2019/20. | 1:22:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Tristes and Milonga | Blue Guitar | Recorded at The Steelworks, Rome, 2010 | 1:28:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Don't Talk Too Fast | Trout Steel | 1:31:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Mike Cooper | Sitting Here Watching | Trout Steel | 1:34:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Mike Cooper speaks: | I've Got Mine to Sitting Here Watching | 1:38:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Mike Cooper | Dreaming on Earth | Oceans of Milk and Treacle | Baritone Saxophone – Tim Hill; Lap Steel Guitar, Viola Caipira, Pedal Steel Guitar, Double Bass, Koto, Strings, Percussion, Drums – Mike Cooper; Percussion – Roger Turner; Soprano Saxophone – Lol Coxhill; Tenor Saxophone – Aaron Hawkins, Geoff Hawkins; Voice – Viv Dogan Corringham - - released 2022 | 1:46:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | MARIAS BLUES (ACOUSTIC) - RE-MIX | Island Songs | Lap-steel guitar, vocals - Mike Cooper Recorded and mixed at Studio Acousti in 1994/95 | 1:49:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper with Duck Baker | Aglio Selvatico | Cumina in Mio Cucina | Spanish Guitar – Duck Baker, Guitar - Mike Cooper - - Recorded direct to stereo by Mike Cooper at the Steelworks (Mike's kitchen, somewhere near the spice-rack, Rome, 2010 | 1:53:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Pharaoh's March | Trout Steel | 1:55:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Mike Cooper | A Cinammon Peeler | Fratello Mare | Mike Cooper -everything - - Released 2015 | 2:02:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Guayaquil to Tully | Raft | Released 2017 | 2:06:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper speaks: | Dreaming on Earth to Guayaquil to Tully and Scarlet-Backed -Flowerpecker to Their Voice Struck Like Lightning | Not enough Mike Cooper? A deeper dive here awaits! Check out these videos: VIDEO LIVE IN MADRID – full show – http://youtu.be/G5QtdN5l_ek LIVE IN ITALY – full show – http://www.ursss.com/artist/mike-cooper/ LIVE IN KURANDA AUSTRALIA – extract – http://youtu.be/6eKkHDtAqL0 LIVE IN BRISBANE – extract – https://vimeo.com/20734202 | 2:10:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
mike cooper | Scarlet Backed Flowerpecker | The Dream Island Of Birds | - - - Mike Cooper - field recordings and electronics and mixing - -rel. Nov. 30, 2023 | 2:34:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | With Uncle Sol At Bailey House | Under The Volcano | Mike Cooper all guitars and electronics. Recorded and Mixed at Black Flamingo Studio Valencia Spain. Tradition and Innovation in Lap Steel Guitar Around 1889 Hawaiian musician Joseph Kekuku discovered a new way to play the guitar with a metal bar. | 2:40:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | 06 - 16.04 | Sengai | Mike Cooper iPad - December 25, 2023 - - Sengai Gibon (1750–1837) was a Zen monk and artist. I had just visited exhibitions in Barcelona by Antonio Tàpies and Joan Miró and read how they both were inspired by Sengai. i like all three artists. | 2:46:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper | Their Voice Struck The Black Sunlit River Like Subterranean Lightning | Slow Motion Lightning | Mike Cooper - everything - - Recorded after reading The Guyana Quartet by the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris. | 2:49:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mike Cooper speaks: | Sleepwalk (Through John Zorn's Head) | 2:53:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Mike Cooper | Sleepwalk (Through John Zorn's Head) | Zanzibar | Lap Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitars – Mike Cooper - Dedicated to the memory of Luigi Malandrino - -Released in 1999 on the Hipshot label | 2:54:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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Wow, just connecting for short bit here now during busy day but will definitely come back for the full episode.
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One has a special appreciation of & admiration for Avant Artists who create their own palettes
...yet my own aptitudes are for, & what I've invested all my time in is being a Gittarhead rooted mostly in Rawk & Blues-based forms ...like about a billion you're likely to strike if you swing a dead cat...
MikeCooper obvsly & eminently illustrates being both & all of these @ once - ably, without contradiction & with complete success
...& if I cannot realistically aspire to this myself - it @ least makes the bifurcation in my head less total & schizophrenic...
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