A world-weary would-be swansong by a maverick songwriter with nothing left to lose, Life and Death in Paradise is a portrait of Mike Cooper’s iconoclastic brilliance shining like the strange and glorious diamond it is, forever ahead of its time.
Category: Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper :: Forbidden Delta Planet Blues
The king of the universal delta returns. In the world of Open music there is no greater force than Mike Cooper. Stepping back from the free-folk jazz that made him an icon in the seventies, Cooper has spent the second half of his career exploring the near infinite routes his National Tri-Cone Resonator can conjure. Forbidden Delta Planet Blues presents yet another exemplary expedition into the labyrinthine pockets of improvised sound that Cooper navigates so well.
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper :: Cantos De Lisboa
As highlighted here recently, the recent crop of Mike Cooper reissues from Paradise of Bachelors are utterly essential. Fearlessly eclectic, masterful stuff. And judging from Cantos De Lisboa , Cooper’s brand-new collaborative LP with Steve Gunn, the man […]
