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01. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - Naked Bridges
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02. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - Aran Stories
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03. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - Geography
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04. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - Gaelic Falling
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05. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - Wild Torrents
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06. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - From Connemara
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07. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - Lamp Low Poetry
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08. Hifiklub & Mike Cooper - A Shirt At Night
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ARTIST
HIFIKLUB & MIKE COOPER
TITLE
Aran Stories
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
RUPTURED
CATALOG #
RPTD 025CD
RPTD 025CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/21/2019
British guitarist
Mike Cooper
collaborates with
Hifiklub
, a French instrumental ensemble from Toulon, for an impressive musical reading of
Robert J. Flaherty
's 1934 silent film
Man of Aran
. Since 2007, French quartet Hifiklub has been building a protean work that evolves through an impressive series of collaborations. The band's catalog is wide and far-reaching, and includes more than 130 collaborations with such renowned musicians as
Lee Ranaldo
,
Alain Johannes
,
Jad Fair
,
Fatso Jetson
, R.
Stevie Moore
, amongst others. For the past 50 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter, his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. In 2017, Hifiklub got in touch with Mike Cooper to record (and eventually perform) a live soundtrack to controversial filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty's silent movie
Man of Aran
. Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film,
Nanook of the North
, in 1922. Following the success of this film, he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with
Moana
(1926), set in the South Seas, and
Man of Aran
(1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. When devising the lyrics for his performance, Cooper dug into Irish writer
John Millington Synge
's book
The Aran Islands
, published in 1907. This book provided the initial inspiration for Flaherty's film. Cooper cut up texts from the book and sang them for the record, while relying on a different set of texts from the same source, for the live performance. It was Cooper who contacted Lebanese indie label Ruptured for the release of the album; no stranger to the Lebanese experimental scene and its various key players, Cooper has already recorded two albums in Beirut. Edition of 400.
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