Mike Cooper / Roberto Bellatalla / Luca Tilli - RAST Five.

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RAST - Rame Acoustic String Quartet is Mike Cooper Resophonic Guitar, Roberto Bellatalla Double Bass and Luca Tilli Cello. A classic string trio chamber music line up dedicated to improvising; exploring our instruments textural as well as percussive, melodic and harmonic possibilities in the 21st Century.
R.A.S.T. is a post- modern string trio plays free improvised acoustic music.
‘Rast’ is the name of a maqam (musical mode or scale) in Arabic music.
Rast is a Persian word (راست) meaning “right” or “direct”. Rast is regarded as the basic maqam in Iranian as well as in Arabic music, in the same way as the major scale in Western music, though it is rather different from the major scale in detail (the major scale is in fact more like maqam Ajam). Rast features a half-flat third and a half-flat seventh scale degrees.

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from Mike Cooper​-​RAST, released February 18, 2020
All Music Improvised Live by RAST.

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Mike Cooper has traced a path completely his own for the past 50 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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