Lindsay Cooper
MUSIC FOR OTHER OCCASIONS
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1. Speed Of Light |
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nml 8603 - CD 1986 - 52'30"
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Cooper is an outstanding composer and musician. Her style is a subtle, none-the-less impressive example of contemporary feminist music.She is a former member of Henry Cow, David Thomas and the Pedestrians, the Feminist Improvising Group, the Mike Westbrook Orchestra etc.
" This music provides me with everything I am addicted to and enjoy: the giddy beauty of romantic and modern classics from Berliot to Berio, the immediacy of new jazz and the smell of pop in progressive rock. In all, it's a ball of humour, diversity and critical engagement." (Bad Alchemy 2/85)
| Lindsay Cooper | piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizers, alto & sopranino saxophones, bassoon, glockenspiel, bass guitar |
| Georgie Born | guitar, bass guitar, cello, electric piano on 1 |
| Sally Potter | singing on 1,9 |
| Dagmar Krause | singing on 3,4,6 |
| Maggie Nicols | singing on 7,15,16 |
| Kate Westbrook | singing on 11,12, tenor horn |
| Chris Cutler | drums |
| Celia Gore Booth | musical saw |
| Vicky Aspinall | violin |
| Zeena Parkins | harp |
| Irita Kutchmy | piccolo |
| Helena Paul | cello on 5 |
| Elvira Plenar | piano, synthesizer on 17; piano on 21 |
| Alfred 23 Harth | soprano saxophon on 17; bass clarinet on 21 |
| Annemarie Roelofs | trombone on 17; violin on 21 |
| John Harle | soprano saxophon on 18 |
| Helen Liebmann | cello on 18 |
| Peter Whyman | soprano saxophon, bass clarinet, flute on 19 |
| Robyn Archer | singing on 20 |
| Linda Patching | violin on 20 |
| Teresa Blake | cello on 20 |
" An important figure in the British 'crossover-avantgarde', gives us an exciting cross-section of the 80's. Bizarre Easy Listening, orchestrated and served sometimes with humour, sometimes with a shot of social criticism, always with British understatement." (Collibri 10/92)