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{"id":8866820358394,"title":"Mike Cooper \/\/ Slow Motion Lightning CD","handle":"mike-cooper-slow-motion-lightning-cd","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e60年代から活動するイギリスの大御所ギタリストMike Cooperが、2024年11月にオーストラリアの実験レーベルRoom40からリリースしたCDです。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eトロピカル・コラージュ〜アンビエント・ブルース〜ストレンジビーツ9曲を収録。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4220940745\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/track=1276068484\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4220940745\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/track=3884003984\/transparent=true\/\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4220940745\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/room40\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/room40\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD in m\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eatte laminate and monochrome printed jacket with insert card.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Heartland 07:12\u003cbr\u003e2. My Bones And My Flute 06:57\u003cbr\u003e3. The Dark Notes Were Everywhere , So Dark, So Sombre, They Broke Into A Fountain 03:11\u003cbr\u003e4. The Groan That Sometimes Splashed Out Of A Bucket Of Sound 06:18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e5. . The Spider Of Dawn Had Appended And The Moon Had Far Descended 04:23\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e6. Their Voice Struck The Black Sunlit River Like Subterranean Lightning 04:05\u003cbr\u003e7. There Was A Deep Silence, Far Away The Baboons Were Howling For Rain 04:23\u003cbr\u003e8. Like Stars Of Gold Painted On The Blue Skeleton Of Crumpled Heaven 05:04\u003cbr\u003e9. A Sacred Infusion Of Slow Motion Lightening 04:31\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the artist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI made the first set of pieces for this collection during the intense heat of the 2023 Spanish summer; 32 degrees inside the house at night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003esometimes. I had just finished reading one of the most extraordinary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003evolumes of fiction ( something I rarely read ) titled The Guyana Quartet by the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris. I came to this book via the works of Nathaniel Mackay, who recommended Wilson Harris as an important\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003einfluence on his own creative writing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile researching further for myTropical Gothic project i came across another writer from Guyana, Edgar Mittelholzer, and his book My Bones And My Flute. The two books couldn’t be more different. Mittelholzer’s book is described as ‘a ghost story in the old fashioned manner’. While The Guyana Quartet is one of the strangest books I have ever read. A lot of the time I had no idea what was going on but its strangeness kept drawing me into it and onwards. It is extremely psychedelic and tropical gothic with an added healthy dose of quantum time. Sometimes the characters are both alive and dead at the same time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe stories all takes place either in the Amazon basin\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e rainforests of\u003cbr\u003eGuyana or the Rupununi Savannah, home to a vast array of exotic wildlife which includes jaguars, sloths, monkeys, giant otters, tapirs, emerald tree boa snakes and more. I wanted this musical edition to be an aural reflection of the landscapes conjured in my minds eye as I was reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of my samples and loops are created using a ukulele, my fingers, a metal hip-flask, (for rum), an empty St James Rum bottle, field recordings from Martinique, electric and acoustic lap steel guitar and a virtual pedal steel guitar. 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Heartland 07:12\u003cbr\u003e2. My Bones And My Flute 06:57\u003cbr\u003e3. The Dark Notes Were Everywhere , So Dark, So Sombre, They Broke Into A Fountain 03:11\u003cbr\u003e4. The Groan That Sometimes Splashed Out Of A Bucket Of Sound 06:18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e5. . The Spider Of Dawn Had Appended And The Moon Had Far Descended 04:23\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e6. Their Voice Struck The Black Sunlit River Like Subterranean Lightning 04:05\u003cbr\u003e7. There Was A Deep Silence, Far Away The Baboons Were Howling For Rain 04:23\u003cbr\u003e8. Like Stars Of Gold Painted On The Blue Skeleton Of Crumpled Heaven 05:04\u003cbr\u003e9. A Sacred Infusion Of Slow Motion Lightening 04:31\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the artist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI made the first set of pieces for this collection during the intense heat of the 2023 Spanish summer; 32 degrees inside the house at night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003esometimes. I had just finished reading one of the most extraordinary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003evolumes of fiction ( something I rarely read ) titled The Guyana Quartet by the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris. I came to this book via the works of Nathaniel Mackay, who recommended Wilson Harris as an important\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003einfluence on his own creative writing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile researching further for myTropical Gothic project i came across another writer from Guyana, Edgar Mittelholzer, and his book My Bones And My Flute. The two books couldn’t be more different. Mittelholzer’s book is described as ‘a ghost story in the old fashioned manner’. While The Guyana Quartet is one of the strangest books I have ever read. A lot of the time I had no idea what was going on but its strangeness kept drawing me into it and onwards. It is extremely psychedelic and tropical gothic with an added healthy dose of quantum time. Sometimes the characters are both alive and dead at the same time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe stories all takes place either in the Amazon basin\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e rainforests of\u003cbr\u003eGuyana or the Rupununi Savannah, home to a vast array of exotic wildlife which includes jaguars, sloths, monkeys, giant otters, tapirs, emerald tree boa snakes and more. I wanted this musical edition to be an aural reflection of the landscapes conjured in my minds eye as I was reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of my samples and loops are created using a ukulele, my fingers, a metal hip-flask, (for rum), an empty St James Rum bottle, field recordings from Martinique, electric and acoustic lap steel guitar and a virtual pedal steel guitar. The flute player is unknown but maybe from Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe titles of my pieces are mostly taken from the two books as well as\u003cbr\u003ethe title, Slow Motion Lightning, which resonated with me as a\u003cbr\u003edescription of our current situation with regards climate change, and\u003cbr\u003eother man made disasters that have occurred since beginning the pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlow Motion Lightning; deadly and unpredictable never strikes\u003cbr\u003etwice in the same place except when it does.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Mike Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e"}