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NEWS: Erland Cooper announces Barbican performance; tour dates confirmed
YOUR favourite Orcadian psychogeographer and acclaimed forger of musical atmospheres, Erland Cooper, is to give a special performance at London’s Barbican on Saturday, October 10th. The event, designed for live broadcast, is part of the autumn Live from the Barbican series: a dozen events which will also feature Nubya Garcia, Richard Dawson, The Divine Comedy …
Track: Erland Cooper – A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window
To highlight Mental Health week; BBC Radio 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins invited composer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper to write a piece of music that highlights how music and sound can help our mental health. The finished track features field recordings by 6 Music listeners made whilst in lockdown, Paul Weller, Galya Bisengalieva (Solo Violin), Robert …
Album Review: Erland Cooper – Hether Blether
I’ve never been to the Orkney Islands. In fact my only reference before this has been the other two of Erland Coopers albums about, and based on, the Islands where he lives. After an album about the birds that inhabit the island with Solan Goose, and the sea which surrounds the islands in Skule Skerry, …
Track: Erland Cooper – Peedie Breeks.
ERLAND COOPER has shared the video for the latest track to be released from Hether Blether, the third and final album in his triptych of albums shaped by the Orkney islands where he grew up. Named after the local dialect for “short trousers”, meaning children, “Peedie Breeks’ is a song about the need to preserve our coastlines …
ERLAND COOPER ANNOUNCES NEW LP ‘HETHER BLETHER’ x SHARES VIDEO FOR ‘LONGHOPE’
ERLAND COOPER has announced the release of new LP Hether Blether on Phases. The completing element to the triptych of works shaped by the islands where he grew up, the archipelago of Orkney in Scotland. Hether Blether is a beautiful composition of sourced soundscapes, field recordings, overlayed with evocative melodic keys and strings and samples of conversation …