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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

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-14

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)

I sang "Boku ha Chotto" by Haruomi Hosono

僕は一寸 - 細野晴臣 カバー| Boku wa Chotto - Haruomi Hosono Cover

cul de sac club

Till the wheels fall off [Macabre Plaza]

DELLAFUENTE, Morad - Manos Rotas

A 98.1 "Music Matters" é a estação que leva o som de verdade à sua vida! A música é a nossa linguagem universal, e nós vamos manter a música viva, porque a música é o que importa! Se ligue na 98.1 "Music Matters" e deixe a música tocar o seu mundo.

Macabre Plaza - Middle Of Nowhere

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

a devils touch in the midwest - macabre plaza (jersey club remix) (extended + slowed & reverb)

10pm inspiration strikes once again
started – and almost scrapped on the 12th of May
finished in 2 days
+50c - copyright

berlioz, Ted Jasper - miro (rhekdens "4 minutes" edit)

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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)

This is a track from the album Some Other Ones by Mac DeMarco, Enjoy.

Mac DeMarco - Don Juan

Happy to finally have this out in the open, the Edits and Remixes EP is live!!

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Till the wheels fall off [Macabre Plaza]

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