catalogue

COOPER, MIKE

LIFE AND DEATH IN PARADISE + MILAN LIVE ACOUSTIC 2018 (PARADISE OF BACHELORS)

COOPER, MIKE - LIFE AND DEATH IN PARADISE + MILAN LIVE ACOUSTIC 2018 158681
format:
2 CD
release:
14.07.2023
label:
PARADISE OF BACHELORS
item ID:
158681
barcode:
0843563140338
Mike Cooper wrote his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming glam-rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada , Spain , an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether.

A chance encounter and a last-ditch record deal convinced him to make one last album, which he recorded in 1974 at Pathway Studios in London, with "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World," featuring the inventive South African jazz rhythm section of Louis Moholo and Harry Miller with UK saxophonist Mike Osborne.

This first-ever reissue includes a bonus CD of Milan Live Acoustic 2018, a previously unreleased solo set that represents Cooper's return, after forty-four years pursuing free improvisation and electronics, to a new, deconstructed approach to singing, steel guitar, and songcraft.

The deluxe LP+CD edition also features a six-panel insert with additional artwork and an essay by the artist about both records.

The deluxe 2xCD gatefold edition features an eight-panel version of the same insert
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. ROCKET SUMMER
  • 1.2. BLACK NIGHT CRASH (INCLUDING "HORRY ROCKER SHOW")
  • 1.3. O.M.M. CODA
  • 1.4. SUICIDE DE LUXE (INCLUDING "ROCK AND ROLL HI WAY")
  • 1.5. LIFE AND DEATH IN PARADISE (INCLUDING "THROUGH A VEIL," "BEADS ON A STRING," AND
  • 1.6. "REPRISE")
  • 1.7. CRITICAL INCIDENTS
  • 2.1. MIGRANTS SONG
  • 2.2. APPROACHING ZERO
  • 2.3. INDUSTRIAL HAZARD
  • 2.4. IN MOMENTS OF REVERIE
  • 2.5. PEACH TREES
  • 2.6. SAGE AND THYME
  • 2.7. LORD FRANKLIN