Fratello Mare, by Mike Cooper

Fratello Mare

by Mike Cooper

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kaleidoscopeman One hell of a South Seas trip-out... Hawaiian lap steel, reverberated percussion, birds cawing... pure manna from heaven ! Favorite track: A House In Bali.

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1.	On Passing Bamboo 02:22	buy track
2.	A House In Bali 02:23	buy track
3.	Summer Without Waves 03:05	buy track
4.	Street Beneath The Beach 02:37	buy track
5.	Of Palm And Reef 02:06	buy track
6.	Fratello Mare 02:06	buy track
7.	Notes From My Pacific Log 04:07	buy track
8.	Secret Mexican Beach 03:19	buy track
9.	A Cinnamon Peeler 03:13	buy track
10.	New Gamelan 03:01	buy track
11.	Complicated Sky 02:30	buy track

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Fratello Mare, a reference to Folco Quilici’s classic film of the same name, is the latest tropical opus from UK born, Italian based musician Mike Cooper.

It’s Cooper’s continuing ode to the Pacific, its people and the traditions that have flowed from that part of the world into seemingly endless iterations within contemporary culture. Recorded across 2014, the album dovetails neatly with his other Room40 editions White Shadows In The South Seas and the post-everything classic Rayon Hula. It expands his combining of highly personal lap steel playing, with exotic music and percussion alongside field recordings made on islands across South East Asia and the Caribbean whilst on residencies and other travels.

At the record’s heart is a yearning these distant islands that dot the vast oceans. A love letter of sorts, a poetic and dreamlike wandering, that sonically traverses the ever-changing edge of land and sea and Cooper's musical imagination.

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released August 1, 2015

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