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Mike Cooper - Trout Steel


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This reissue by folk singer Mike Cooper might have flown under the radar but it is worth checking out, particularly for the involvement of Harry Miller, Mike Osborne, John Taylor etc.

'The molting began in 1970 with Trout Steel, on which Cooper took a decisive step away from the folk and blues scenes in which he was well-known—he had toured with Michael Chapman and traveled in the same circles as Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, and Davey Graham, among others—toward the New Thing jazz of Pharaoh Sanders, Sonny Sharrock, and Derek Bailey, without sacrificing any of his lyrical songwriting or forsaking his established roots in the soil of the American Southern vernacular. Producer Peter Eden (Donovan, Bill Fay, Clive Palmer) assembled a crack team of English and South African jazz and folk musicians (including Mike Osborne, Harry Miller, Geoff Hawkins, Stefan Grossman, and Heron) to record these remarkable sessions, and the results are absolutely sui generis, a compelling mix of tradition, group improvisations, and unfettered studio explorations that presaged Cooper’s adventurous work for decades to come.'

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/products-page/cd/pob-13

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I've been listening to this (and two others from the time) off E-music downloads. Remember 'The Machine Gun Co' album cover from the time but never knew the music. Haven't internalised it yet but as Jazzjet says, it is in its own world. Very much part of the experimental atmosphere of the time.

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