Mike Cooper - Life and Death in Paradise (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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.

TRACKLIST

1. Mike Cooper - Rocket Summer
2. Mike Cooper - Black Night Crash (including “Horry Rocker Show”)
3. Mike Cooper - O.M.M. Coda
4. Mike Cooper - Suicide De Luxe (including “Rock and Roll Hi Way”)
5. Mike Cooper - Life and Death in Paradise (including “Through a Veil,” “Beads on a String,” and “Reprise”)
6. Mike Cooper - Critical Incidents



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