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„White Shadows …“ (YouTube)

In anyone else s hands, such a music would morph into a safe sort of ambient stroll, but Mike Cooper knows too much about where he is taking the listener to accidently leave it there. Sound is constantly rescued from its history on this album, combined in unexpected ways and intended to behave against the grain. Grasping at the familiar of the exotica, Cooper shifts and slices his way trough the fourteen tracks, shutting of a melody suddenly, combining ocean sounds with his familiar bluesy slide, or mixing bird song with 60′s sounding keys.  The combinations are as welcoming as a Tahitian sunset and as surprising as the depth and complexity of the Islander people themselves. (Lisa Thatcher)

 

Over his lengthy career, guitar experimentalist Mike Cooper has made elevating “folk” music to the levels of creativity and freewheeling expressionism that originally propelled the genre beyond its out of the way roots and the heady cellar cafe circle echo chambers his trademark. It definitely helps that he was around and making that magic happen, in situ. When Cooper applies a similar creative tact to the very embodiment of classic exotica, the Hawaiian guitar, the result is “White Shadows Of The South Seas,” a beautifully shambolic melange that more effectively captures the solar powered crawl of beach life than many of it’s glossed over and out cultural touchpoints. Taken as a semi-sequel up to Cooper’s own Rayon Hula, it’s a satisfying expansion of the dream pop infused exotica of its predecessor. Taken on its own merits, well it’s a big, hazy, semi-super 8 and thoroughly post-colonial world out there, so take it one guitar lick at a time. (Luke Carrell)

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  1. Michael Engelbrecht:

    Playlist

    1) track 002
    LC –
    Label: Room40
    rm454
    EAN: 0844185048941
    Titel: Beached
    länge: 4’01
    Obertitel: White Shadows on the Southern Seas
    interpret: Mike Cooper
    komponist: Mike Cooper
    CD

    2) track 003
    LC –
    Label: Room40
    rm454
    EAN: 0844185048941
    Titel: White Shadows
    länge: 5’31
    Obertitel: White Shadows on the Southern Seas
    interpret: Mike Cooper
    komponist: Mike Cooper
    CD

    3) track 001
    LC –
    Label: Hubro
    Hubro CD2520
    EAN: 7033662035205
    Titel: Long Story
    länge: 3’45
    Obertitel: LC
    interpret: Splashgirl
    komponist: Andreas Stensland Lowe
    CD

    4) track 001
    LC –
    Label: bureau b
    BB124
    EAN: 4047179723527
    Titel: Pastoral
    länge: 4’20
    Obertitel: S elected Studies Vol. 1
    interpret: Lloyd Cole & Hansjoachim Roedelius
    komponist: H.J. Roedelius, L. Cole
    CD

    5) track 007
    LC –
    Label: Backwater Records
    OLKCD023
    EAN: 5020422715288
    Titel: My Old Bike
    länge: 3’51
    Obertitel: Ted Sheldrake
    interpret: Roger Eno
    komponist: Roger Eno
    CD

    6) track 013
    LC –
    Label: Backwater Records
    OLKCD023
    EAN: 5020422715288
    Titel: Ted’s Funeral
    länge: 3’49
    Obertitel: Ted Sheldrake
    interpret: Roger Eno
    komponist: Roger Eno
    CD

    7) track 001
    LC 23487
    Label: Melodic
    MELO 181 CD
    EAN: 5060168040534
    Titel: KAB 1340
    länge: 4’54
    Obertitel: The Island Come True
    interpret: L. Pierre
    komponist: L. Pierre
    CD

    8) track 009
    LC 23487
    Label: Melodic
    MELO 181 CD
    EAN: 5060168040534
    Titel: Doctor Alucard
    länge: 2’15
    Obertitel: The Island Come True
    interpret: L. Pierre
    komponist: L. Pierre
    CD

    9) track 011
    LC 00542
    Label: EMI
    6971032
    EAN: 5099969710322
    Titel: Life In A Glasshouse
    länge: 4’35
    Obertitel: Amnesiac
    interpret: Radiohead
    komponist: Radiohead
    textdichter: Thom Yorke
    CD

    10) track 007
    LC –
    Label: Atlas
    ATLAS10CD
    EAN: 602537324729
    Titel: Dogital Lipn
    länge: 4’45
    Obertitel: Overgrown
    interpret: James Blake
    komponist: J. Blake, B. Eno
    textdichter: James Blake
    CD

    11) track 005
    LC 02516
    Label: ECM
    ECM 1021
    EAN: 73145137762
    Titel: Algeria
    länge: 5’44
    Obertitel: Ruta and Daitya
    interpret: Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette
    komponist: K. Jarrett, J. DeJohnette
    CD


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