Fratello Mare by mike cooper
Fratello Mare, a reference to Folco Quilici’s classic film of the same name, is the latest tropical opus from UK born, Italian based musician Mike Cooper.
It’s Cooper’s continuing ode to the Pacific, its people and the traditions that have flowed from that part of the world into seemingly endless iterations within contemporary culture. Recorded across 2014, the album dovetails neatly with his other Room40 editions White Shadows In The South Seas and the post-everything classic Rayon Hula. It expands his combining of highly personal lap steel playing, with exotic music and percussion alongside field recordings made on islands across South East Asia and the Caribbean whilst on residencies and other travels.
At the record’s heart is a yearning these distant islands that dot the vast oceans. A love letter of sorts, a poetic and dreamlike wandering, that sonically traverses the ever-changing edge of land and sea and Cooper's musical imagination.
Tracklist
| 1. | On Passing Bamboo | 2:22 |
| 2. | A House In Bali | 2:24 |
| 3. | Summer Without Waves | 3:06 |
| 4. | Street Beneath The Beach | 2:38 |
| 5. | Of Palm And Reef | 2:07 |
| 6. | Fratello Mare | 2:06 |
| 7. | Notes From My Pacific Log | 4:08 |
| 8. | Secret Mexican Beach | 3:20 |
| 9. | A Cinnamon Peeler | 3:13 |
| 10. | New Gamelan | 3:02 |
| 11. | Complicated Sky | 2:31 |
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Mike Cooper has traced a path completely his own for the past 60 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.