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Mike Cooper
Blue Guitar

Album US 2017 on IDEA Intermedia label
Rock, Folk, World and (Acoustic, Experimental, Avant-garde)

“For the past couple of years I have been collating a body of text culled (mostly) from Thomas Pynchon’s novels ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ and ‘V’ and making cut-up collage pieces in the spirit of William Burroughs, Kurt Schwitters, Tom Phillips and others. Those two particular novels interest me because they are set in the period that I was born, however no reference to that period is intended in my pieces. Hopefully a more contemporary comment was found lurking within the words, lines, pages and paragraphs. Recently my interest in playing the guitar in a more or less ‘traditional’ manner, but still incorporating various ‘extended techniques’ (as opposed to using it purely as a sound source) has been re-kindled along with a renewed interest in Blues, Greek Rembetika, Flamenco, Portuguese Fado and other traditional and improvised music around the Mediterranean which in turn brought out the singer in me again…I have lived in the Mediterranean region for 30 years and listened to its music and I wanted to make something that would hopefully have some of its spirit without making reference to any of it musically. “ Things as they are / are changed upon the blue guitar ”- ( Wallace Stevens – Man With The Blue Guitar ) ” Sometimes when you cut into the present the future leaks out.” ( William Burroughs ) All songs and music by Mike Cooper. Cover and postcard drawings by Mike Cooper. Recorded at The Steelworks, Rome, 2010. Originally released as Hip027 on Hipshot 2010.

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	Mike Cooper voc, g, *1942 GB album by
	Tim Catlin g, AU guitar

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