mike cooper s/d c/d etc

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?

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poor mike cooper can't catch a break, even on ILM.

matt cooper records as eluvium. does that help?

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.

I dig his Borders CD (2006). Haven't heard any other albums. Just a coupla more songs on compilations.

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.

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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.

trout steel is fucking great. why does nobody know who this dude is?

this album is wonderful

trout steel i mean

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.

if i could only cash in on being ahead of the curve!

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.

Recently saw this guy as part of a duo supporting Sir Richard Bishop and it was, ummmmmm, kinda terrible tbh

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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.

I think I like the current one, wasn't too familiar with him before

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

Thanks for the heads up!! Wasn't aware of the reissue

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.”

Newest one sounding really nice

https://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/forbidden-delta-planet-blues

i agree