the eagle is a canary

Recorded via voice recorder on laptop with cheap usb condenser mic; guitar and vocals through vintage Vortexion valve amp, plus Steve Songi on el/ac bass through 30w Kustom bass amp. Saturday afternoon with nothing better to doexcept drink cider and fool around with guitars...

Love In Vain

Piano Quart de queue Young Chan enregistré en simultané sur plusieurs micro

Test Piano Amb Mono PZM Crown

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In 2014 Paradise of Bachelors reissued iconoclastic English-born, Rome-based folk and experimental music legend Mike Cooper’s classic triptych of early 1970s avant-folk-rock records—Trout Steel (1970) and Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper (1971-72)—to widespread critical acclaim, including Best New Reissue recognition from Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. But Cooper sowed the seeds of his deconstructivist music five years earlier in his rare earliest recordings, until now scarcely known and never reissued—fitting fodder for PoB’s very first Record Store Day release.

Named for The Shades, the Reading, UK folk club where he regularly performed, and which employed and housed guitar prodigy Derek Hall—who later played on Cooper’s 1969 debut LP Oh Really!?—the little-heard Out of the Shades EP was released in an extremely limited edition by local label Kennet Recordings in 1965 as KRS 766. The songs were recorded live to a single microphone in the kitchen/bathroom/former outhouse of Mike’s rambling Georgian apartment, on a portable Ferrograph reel-to-reel that the engineer otherwise used for “recording birds and trains.”

Out of the Shades

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Mike Cooper & Derek Hall - Out of the Shades: "Skillet" (1965/2016, PoB-25)

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Buy it only on Record Store Day: http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8473

In 2014 Paradise of Bachelors reissued iconoclastic English-born, Rome-based folk and experimental music legend Mike Cooper’s classic triptych of early 1970s avant-folk-rock records—Trout Steel (1970) and Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper (1971-72)—to widespread critical acclaim, including Best New Reissue recognition from Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. But Cooper sowed the seeds of his deconstructivist music five years earlier in his rare earliest recordings, until now scarcely known and never reissued—fitting fodder for PoB’s very first Record Store Day release. 

Named for The Shades, the Reading, UK folk club where he regularly performed, and which employed and housed guitar prodigy Derek Hall—who later played on Cooper’s 1969 debut LP Oh Really!?—the little-heard Out of the Shades EP was released in an extremely limited edition by local label Kennet Recordings in 1965 as KRS 766. The songs were recorded live to a single microphone in the kitchen/bathroom/former outhouse of Mike’s rambling Georgian apartment, on a portable Ferrograph reel-to-reel that the engineer otherwise used for “recording birds and trains.”

Mike Cooper & Derek Hall - Out of the Shades: "Paul's Song" (1965/2016, PoB-25)

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Cover Image by Peter James Anderson
Filmed and Edited by Adam James David Anderson
Performed by Julia R. Anderson
Produced by Alexander L'Estrange

In the Beginning (C) 2015.

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In The Beginning

Bending

A set of 5 songs by Brahms sung by Eileen Donlon. Recorded on a reel-to-reel Vortexian machine from a BBC Northern Ireland broadcast.

Five Songs By Brahms (Direct From Vortexion)

I walked with you
down the mountain by the roses.
We left our mark where others wept to go
and we laughed at their misfortune.

In your hands I had a child's mind
all supple and ripe for moulding.
And we were bound with ropes white as tinsel.
Now I've got holes where they lay.

And we stripped down our bodies
'til there was nothing left at all
and the strings cut through us all.

You are made of gold, I am tin foil.
We tin foil wrapped in clay.
And on the day when our eyes are good as crow bait
They'll replace yours in the cold night sky

And we cut up our bodies, 
left the rest out to rot
and the strings hang over her cot.

If we could disintegrate even further
We'd be like the dead in the stars
I can just see the dirt through my fingers
We're fading fast.

And our non-souls mingle
by hands not our own
And the strings (mean we're not alone)

They'll all flock together
and see what we made
And they'll sing.

Strings

Colors

Up All Night

Written by Eleanor Mary Strong.

Recorded and produced by James Hazell on a Ferrograph Stereo tape machine and a 4 track Yamaha.

Lead vocals & Guitar - Eleanor
BV's, Lead guitar, Keys, Bass & Drums - James Hazell

Drums recorded on an 80's Yamaha drum machine.

Thanks for listening!

Jerry

MB 215 microphone sound test on Fender vibro champ guitar amp.

MB (Haun) MB 215 microphone test

originally recorded by Mississippi born, Memphis musician Frank Stokes in 1929.

S.J.Downes ~ 6 string Guild

B.G.O of 27 ~ Slide Guitars, Mandolins sections.

RiGHT NoW BLuES ~ S.J & B.G.O of 27

Recorded 1975 on a half-track mono Vortexion WVB - each new layer added by turning the erase head off.

This is one of my favourite early things: a serendipitous cacophony involving multi-layered tape-loops and the playing of found objects ( LP rack...wire egg-slicer...etc ) with guitar pickups attached to them.

The result of this aural vandalism sounds like some bizarre industrial process is going on:  curiously reminiscent of the famous sound-effect from "The Man In The White Suit".

The 'explosion' about 1:30 in is the sound of a violently plucked Hammond Reverb Spring totally overloading the input stage of the Vortexion.  Happy days !

© Ken Cumberlidge 9/12/1975 

Alexander's Ragtime Bend

Three superimposed guitar tracks using Ferrograph

Corcovado - Jobim - 1969 Multitrack

Intimate summer nights by the side of a portable 4 track. Cheap guitars, casios, reverb soak, samples. Art rock from Australia

In The Beginning

Julia R. Anderson

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