Paradise of Bachelors is proud to present the first artist-sanctioned reissues—and first-ever vinyl reissues—of iconoclastic English-born, Rome-based folk and experimental music legend Mike Cooper’s classic trio of early 1970s avant-folk/rock records: Trout Steel (1970), Places I Know (1971), and The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper (1972). The latter two titles are presented for the very first time as the definitive double album, as Cooper originally intended them to be released.

Listening to Cooper’s recordings retrospectively in sequence reveals a rangy narrative of perennial reinvention from document to document through a playful approach to the deconstruction of “folk” musics and all that gross genre signifier implies and denies. By the time the Rolling Stones invited him to join the band in the early ’60s, and he politely declined (true story; Brian Jones took the gig), he had already progressed far beyond the circumscribed bounds of their early, hip-histrionic Albionic blues. By the time he was rumored to have retired from music in the mid ’70s, disappearing from his home in Southern England into Southern Spain to become a fisherman (an amusing fiction; he suffers from seasickness), he had already moved beyond his heady homebrew of progressive, free jazz-framed songcraft into increasingly less conventionally structured frontiers of open improvisation and later, electronic composition.

The Machine Gun Co. band (named for the 1968 Peter Brötzmann album) coalesced around Cooper’s desire to continue the improvisatory path forged on Trout Steel in a more sustainable manner, with a steady core group of likeminded musicians able to buttress its daring, long-form improvisatory vaults with a bedrock foundation. Peter Eden (Donovan, Bill Fay, Clive Palmer) produced the historic sessions, which veered from the impeccable conceptual folk-rock artistry of Places I Know (as Cooper explains, “the secret of the title of this record is that it was meant as a kind of covers record, or an homage to some musicians and songwriters that I liked at the time, the ‘places’ in the title—I was interested in seeing if I could emulate some other people without actually sounding like them”) to the utterly singular “songmaking” deconstructions of the more radical The Machine Gun Co., wherein the band erects lapidary arrangements reminiscent of Tim Buckley, only to dismantle them into virtuosic passages of Beefheartian free-jazz scree and skronk. According to Cooper:

What was initially planned was a double album, with one record played by the Machine Gun Co. and the other with arrangements by Mike Gibbs and his orchestra. Those two records were conceived as a double album aimed at covering the wide range of music I was interested in and gently leading the listener from the more accessible Places I Know, with its Mike Gibbs arrangements, into the more (for the times) extreme areas of The Machine Gun Co. That never happened, and they were released as two separate records a year apart.

Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper is Paradise of Bachelors’ attempt, two years in the making, to correct this historical oversight and offer this masterpiece as it was designed to be experienced, as an extraordinarily ambitious document spanning Cooper’s song-based and improvisation-based styles of the early 1970s.

+ First-ever artist-sanctioned and vinyl reissue
+ Includes 16 pp. chapbook with an essay by Mike Cooper, lyrics, and never published color photos
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl as a gatefold 2xLP, in a deluxe limited edition, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats
+ Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon

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ces I Know/The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper

Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper - Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co. : "Paper and Smoke" (1971-72/2014, PoB-14)

Livesändning från 26/5.
Kontentan går denna vecka igenom filmer som Linus har sett den senaste tiden, Andy Rourkes död, saker som formade 90-talet och Sam Fender.
Låtar som spelades under programmet:
Shigeru Suzuki - パッション・フラワー
Hov1 - Barn av vår tid
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Scorpions - Wind Of Change
Sam Fender - Spit Of You
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Medverkande: Jonathan Ärfström och Linus Olofsson

Kontentan 4. Vad hände med fåret Dolly?

Till the wheels fall off [Macabre Plaza]

Playlist
Set I
*levitation room/Strange Weather/Strange Weather/Greenway Courtesy of OneRPM
Crumb/Plants/Locket/Crumb Records
Men I Trust/Always Lone/Untourable Album/Return to Analog (self)
Slow Pulp/Young World/Big Day/Slow Pulp (self)

Set II
Dire Straits/Six Blade Knife/Dire Straits/Warner Records Inc.
The Sundays/Another Flavour/Static & Silence/DGC Records
Elliott Smith/L.A./Figure 8/Dreamworks Records
Dianna Lopez/Euphoria/Euphoria (single)/Dianna Lopez (self)

Set III
*Screaming Females/My Dead Wife/Clover/Don Giovanni Records
*JW Francis/Orbit/Orbit (single)/Born Losers Records
The Slaps/Waking Up Bloody/Tomato Tree/The Slaps (self), Amuseio AB
Faye Webster/Cheers/I know I’m Funny haha/Secretly Canadian

Background Music
- DJ Harrison/Erykah’s Gun/Stashboxx/Rodeadope Records
- OGRE YOU ASSHOLE/バランス (From 浮かれている人Twilight Edition EP)/Confidential/VAP
- Macabre Plaza/Small Town Pigeon/An Old Smile/Vada Vada
- Djo/Uglyfisherman/D-SIDES/Djo Music (self), AWAL Recordings
- Masayoshi Takanaka/蜃気楼の島へ/SEYCHELLES/Kitty Films
- Masayoshi Takanaka/バードアイランド急行/SEYCHELLES/Kitty Films
- Mac DeMarco/Chicago 2/Five Easy Hot Dogs/Mac’s Record Label (self)

*indicates new music

WRUV Demo Spring 2024

Hi! This track is taken from Masayoshi Takanaka and Issei Noro's collab in the Crossover Japan 2005. Hope you love it as much as I do!

Blue Lagoon x Asayake Masayoshi Takanaka - Issei Noro Crossover Japan '05 Live

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Mellow 1975 single that toes the line between fusion and city pop

スカイレストラン (Sky Restaurant)

"Beleza Pula~Taji Majal" Live 2008 Masayoshi Takanaka 高中正義

ティアーズ・オブ・ザ・スター CASIOPEA

Can I Sing... For You (Masayoshi Takanaka Cover)

AMPLIFIER: Line 6 Spider IV 15watt

GUITARS:-
IBANEZ GIO GRG 250BKN-MP (CLEAN settings on amp)
LTD M-10FR (METAL settings on amp)

REAPER DAW
PLUG-INS USED..
- VST: FA3 Amp (Fretted Synth)
- JS: Liteon/presenceeq
- VST: ReaFir (FFT EQ+Dynamics Processor) (Cockos)
- VST: Ambience (Magnus @ Smartelectron:x)
- VST: ReaComp (Cockos)
- JS: LOSER/TimeDelayer

Backing Track by Ayuhide1.

Can I Sing... For You (Masayoshi Takanaka Cover)

Tracklist:
Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi - Capybara
Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi - Western Bolero
Junko Ohashi - Telephone Number
Masayoshi Takanaka - Alone
Masayoshi Takanaka - Noon
Masayoshi Takanaka - 伊豆甘夏納豆売り
Miharu Koshi - Keep On Dancing
Miharu Koshi - Laetitia 
Miharu Koshi - Sugar Me
Miharu Koshi - 日曜は行かない
Tatsuro Yamashita (山下達郞) - RAINY WALK
teresa noda - tropical love
Windows彡96 - whitenoisetruthfull

Beshknow Friday

Beshknow Friday#29(Farazn Badie)2017/10/20

Wharf Cat Records presents Jonny Campolo of P.E. — formerly of Pill DJs.

Tracklist:
Boards of Canada - Diving Station
Ana Roxanne - Nocturne
Bing & Ruth - Rails
Campolo & Schenke - Score for Phil Birch's “Milespires and Reliquaries”
CMON - Coo
Grouper - Alien Observer
Happy Valley - Happy Valley
Haruomi Hosono - Talking
Jon Brion - Elephant Parade
Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita - 最後の楽園 (The Last Paradise)
Death in Vegas - Girls
Kevin Shields - Goodbye
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Yaeji - WAKING UP DOWN
Teengirl Fantasy - In the Rain
Var - No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
Wet Hair - The Garden Room
Melted Toys - Washed & Dried
Haruomi Hosono - ろっかばいまいべいびい - Piano Demo Version
Dirty Beaches - True Blue
Scribble - It's Blue
Yukihiro Takahashi 高橋幸宏 - Drip Dry Eyes
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Richenel - Autumn
Malcom Mclaren - About Her 
P.E. - Soft Dance

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WRUV Demo Spring 2024

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