Mike Cooper / Mark Wastell - Sound Mirrors

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1.	Abbott's Cliff 06:02
2.	Abbott's Cliff 06:02	buy track
3.	Fan Bay 09:06
4.	Warden Point 10:33
5.	Joss Gap 13:20
6.	Maghtab 04:29
7.	Boulby 03:30

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The UK’s network of crumbling sound mirrors - an early form of radar - supply cues for blues experimenter Mike Cooper and pivotal improvisor Mark Wastell (Company) in an inquisitive collaboration on Wastell’s Confront Recordings. The strange, austere relics of WWI were erected between 1916 and the 1930s and are found dotted along the South East and North East coastline of England, sometimes in farmer’s fields who’ll let you in for a look if you ask nicely (out to my guy in Boulby). With Cooper manning lapsteel guitar and electronics, and Wastell on paiste 32” tam tam, percussion and shruti box, the pair conure a psychedelic, airborne sound that recalls a mixture of frayed, early electronics and messed-up recordings of the blues seemingly dialled in from another dimension, using their ears as concrete receptors for sferic and alien ephemeral sounds which, at their darkest in the final track ‘Boulby’ (they’re all named after locations of sound mirrors), which appears to be channelling sounds from the super deep mines below where experimental research is conducted for space travel, somewhat echoing the use of the land above, some 100 years prior. (Boomkat)
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released April 24, 2020

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released March 31, 2021

Mike Cooper : lapsteel guitar, electronics
Mark Wastell : paiste 32” tam tam, percussion, shruti box

Recorded at Studio 3, Stoke Newington, London on 3rd October 2018 by Rupert Clervaux. Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux and Mark Wastell

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Mike Cooper has traced a path completely his own for the past 60 years as an international musical explorer, lap steel guitarist, singer, improviser and composer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. stretching the possibilities of the guitar with an eclectic mix of the many styles he has practiced over the years. ... more

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