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Mike Cooper // Playing With Water LP

Mike Cooper // Playing With Water LP

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UK guitarist Mike Cooper, who has been active since the 60s, released a record in 2020 from the Australian experimental label room40.

Bangkok andIncludes 7 ambient soundscapes that exquisitely mix environmental sounds and guitar ambiences recorded in islands such as Venice and Jakarta. Comes with DL code.


" Playing With Water is a novel written by James Hamilton-Paterson. I was introduced to his writing by the Australian poet Peter Bakowski who gave me a copy of his book'Seven Tenths --The Sea And Its Thresholds'; a book that influenced my record Globe Notes and subsequent works immensely. Another of his books'Playing With Water: Passion And Solitude On A Philippine Island' is about exactly what the title describes it as and provided me with the title.

... Another conceptual thread connecting [my albums] is my concern for the co-habitation of the human and non-human world expressed through my use of unprocessed avian or insect field recordings of song, signs and signals. Climate change, as well Indigenous and small, often nomadic, coastal communities are very aware of this balance and the incursion of the industrial world into their way as the destruction by humans of the natural habitat of many species, is disturbing the balanced relationship we need to have with nature. of life is having disastrous effects which will (if not already) have similar effects and repercussions on ours.
There are field recordings on this edition from Pulau Ubin, Ko Phayan, Ko Lanta, Sri Lanka, Bangkok, St. Lucia and Martinique; all places that can look forward to or are already witnessing the Postdiluvian Future. "
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Mike cooper

Artist: Mike Cooper

Label: Room40

UK guitarist Mike Cooper, who has been active since the 60s, released a record in 2020 from the Australian experimental label room40.

Bangkok andIncludes 7 ambient soundscapes that exquisitely mix environmental sounds and guitar ambiences recorded in islands such as Venice and Jakarta. Comes with DL code.


" Playing With Water is a novel written by James Hamilton-Paterson. I was introduced to his writing by the Australian poet Peter Bakowski who gave me a copy of his book'Seven Tenths --The Sea And Its Thresholds'; a book that influenced my record Globe Notes and subsequent works immensely. Another of his books'Playing With Water: Passion And Solitude On A Philippine Island' is about exactly what the title describes it as and provided me with the title.

... Another conceptual thread connecting [my albums] is my concern for the co-habitation of the human and non-human world expressed through my use of unprocessed avian or insect field recordings of song, signs and signals. Climate change, as well Indigenous and small, often nomadic, coastal communities are very aware of this balance and the incursion of the industrial world into their way as the destruction by humans of the natural habitat of many species, is disturbing the balanced relationship we need to have with nature. of life is having disastrous effects which will (if not already) have similar effects and repercussions on ours.
There are field recordings on this edition from Pulau Ubin, Ko Phayan, Ko Lanta, Sri Lanka, Bangkok, St. Lucia and Martinique; all places that can look forward to or are already witnessing the Postdiluvian Future. "
-
Mike cooper

Artist: Mike Cooper

Label: Room40