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ARTIST
COOPER, MIKE
TITLE
Blue Guitar
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
IDEA
CATALOG #
IDEA 027LP
IDEA 027LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/10/2017
Mike Cooper
's
Blue Guitar
is a collection that first appeared on Cooper's Hipshot CDr label in 2010 in a limited edition. It is presented here on Idea Records, for the first time on vinyl. Upon its initial release Cooper wrote: "For the past couple of years I have been collating a body of text culled (mostly) from
Thomas Pynchon
's novels
Gravity's Rainbow
and
V
and making cut-up collage pieces in the spirit of
William Burroughs
,
Kurt Schwitters
,
Tom Phillips
and others. Those two particular novels interest me because they are set in the period that I was born, however no reference to that period is intended in my pieces. Hopefully a more contemporary comment was found lurking within the words, lines, pages and paragraphs. Recently my interest in playing the guitar in a more or less 'traditional' manner, but still incorporating various 'extended techniques' (as opposed to using it purely as a sound source) has been re-kindled along with a renewed interest in blues, Greek rembetika, flamenco, Portuguese fado and other traditional and improvised music around the Mediterranean which in turn brought out the singer in me again... I have lived in the Mediterranean region for 30 years and listened to its music and I wanted to make something that would hopefully have some of its spirit without making reference to any of it musically." "
Things as they are / are changed upon the blue guitar
" --Wallace Stevens,
Man With The Blue Guitar
(1937) "
Sometimes when you cut into the present the future leaks out.
" --William Burroughs. Mastered by
Rashad Becker
. Cover design by
Tom Recchion
. Comes on 180 gram vinyl; Includes a lyrics insert; Includes a postcard insert; Linen Wrapped/Foil Stamped; Comes in an Old Style Tip-On jacket.
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