Mike Cooper

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British folk blues vocalist and guitarist.
Born on 24 August 1942 in Reading, Berkshire, UK.

ALBUMS

Pierre Bastien & Mike Cooper

Aquapelagos: Índico

2024, LP, Album, Keroxen

Mike Cooper & Jason Kolàr

2024, Cass, Album, Mondoj

Slow Motion Lightning

2024, CD, Album, Room40

2023, CD, Album, Ltd, Room40

Life And Death In Paradise + Milan Live Acoustic 2018

Oceans Of Milk And Treacle

Ambient/Experimental

Mike Cooper / Duck Baker

Cumino In Mia Cucina

Mike Cooper And Scot Ray

Dua Kepala Kelapa

2020, 8xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (Scot Ray Self-released)

40 Nights And 40 Days

Chris Abrahams & Mike Cooper

Playing With Water

Oh Really?! / Do I Know You? / Trout Steel / Places I Know / The Machine Gun Co. with Mike Cooper + bonus tracks

2019, 3xCD, Comp, RE, RM, BGO Records

Hifiklub, Mike Cooper

2019, CD, Album, Ltd, Gat, Ruptured,

Alternative Rock/Experimental/Indie Rock

Mike Cooper / Mark Wastell

2019, CD, Album, Confront, Confront

Distant Songs Of Madmen

Tropical Gothic

Mike Cooper & Tasos Stamou

2016, LP, Album, Ltd, Discrepant

Derek Hall (5) & Mike Cooper

Out Of The Shades

2016, 7", EP, RSD, RE, Paradise Of Bachelors

Økapi, Mike Cooper, Geoff Leigh

Pardonne-moi, Olivier!

2016, CD, Album, Off

Light On A Wall

Ambient/Experimental

Forbidden Delta Planet Blues

New Globe Notes

2014, LP, Album, Ltd, NO=FI Recordings, Nero Magazine

Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper

Cantos De Lisboa

Mike Cooper, Yan-Chiu Leung

Right (H)ear Side By Side

Mike Cooper & Chris Abrahams

Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz

White Shadows In The South Seas

Radio Paradise - Mike Cooper In Beirut

2011, CD, Johnny Kafta's Kids Menu

Live In Sardinia

2010, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Live @ Booze Corporaton in Athens

2010, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Acoustic/Experimental/Avantgarde

Live @ The Hint House New York City 2000

2009, LP, Album, Ltd, Qbico

Truth In The Abstract Blues : Leila Adu, Mike Cooper, Fabrizio Spera

Truth In The Abstract Blues

2009, CD, Album, Rai Trade

Chris Abrahams / Mike Cooper

Oceanic Feeling-Like

2008, CD, Album, Room40

Mike Cooper / Eugenio Sanna / D.B.P.I.T.* / Cris X

Live At Ex-Mental Hospital S. Maria Della Pietà - Roma 1/8/2008

2008, CD, Album, CX Records (2), Dischi Gatto Alieno

Mike Cooper & Friends*

Beach Crossings - Pacific Footprints

2008, CD, Rai Trade,

Pacific Voyager

2008, CDr, Album, Hipshot

2008, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Future Folk/Borders

2008, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Aelita - Queen of Mars - Live Soundtrack

2008, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Eugene Chadbourne, Mike Cooper, Johnny Hamill*, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Cedric Prive*

New Directions In Appalachian Music

2007, CDr, Album, House Of Chadula

2007, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Send Of The Sea

2007, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Mike Cooper With Jeff Henderson, Anthony Donaldson, Tom Callwood

2006, LP, Ltd, Qbico

2006, CDr, Album, Hipshot

2005, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Reluctant Swimmer / Virtual Surfer

Abstract/Ambient

2004, CD, Album, Rossbin,

Free Improvisation/Experimental

Rayon Hula - An Homage To Arthur Lyman And Ellery Chun

Cruising Paradise

2003, CDr, Album, Hipshot

2003, CDr, Comp, Num, Hipshot

Mike Cooper, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Viv Dogan Corringham, Lol Coxhill

2003, CDr, Album, Hipshot,

Abstract/Free Improvisation

Mike Cooper, Richard Nunns, Elio Martusciello

Live @ Cineclub Detour

2003, CDr, Album, Hipshot,

Abstract/Ambient/Experimental

Moving Within Soundscape

2003, CD, Mini, EP, Hipshot

Attenti Al Fuso

2002, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Mike Cooper, The Uptown Hawaiians, Continental Drift

2001, CDr, Album, Hipshot

2001, CDr, Album, Hipshot

2000, 12", Ethbo Music

Paper And Smoke

2000, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Castle Music, Sanctuary

Finding Other Worlds - 21st Century Guitars

2000, CDr, Album, Hipshot

1999, CDr, Album, Hipshot

Mike Cooper, Jean-Marc Montera, Mauro Orselli, Eugenio Sanna

Improvvisazioni Quartetto

1997, CD, Album, ADA (5)

1996, CD, Album, Nato

Places I Know / The Machine Gun Company

Do I Know You / Trout Steel

1995, 2xCD, Comp, RM, BGO Records

Viv Dogan Corringham / Mike Cooper

1993, CD, Album, Mash Productions

Mike Cooper & Cyril Lefebvre

Aveklei Uptowns Hawaiians

1987, 10", Album, Chabada,

Contemporary Jazz

Mike Cooper / Ian A Anderson*

The Continuous Preaching Blues

Mississippi Delta Blues - Live From Papa Madeo

1982, LP, Album, LTR Tonstudio Bochum

Johnny Rondo Duo Plus Mike Cooper

Johnny Rondo Duo David Holland/Lol Coxhill Plus Mike Cooper

1982, LP, Advance, W/Lbl, FMP,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Johnny Rondo Duo Plus Mike Cooper

Johnny Rondo Duo David Holland/Lol Coxhill Plus Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper / Joanna Pyne

'ave They Started Yet?

1981, LP, Matchless Recordings

Stefan Grossman Featuring Son House And Jo Ann Kelly* And Sam Mitchell And Mike Cooper

Country Blues Guitar Festival

Life And Death In Paradise

1974, LP, Album, Fresh Air (2)

The Machine Gun Co. With Mike Cooper

The Machine Gun Co. With Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper With The Machine Gun Co. And Michael Gibbs

Country Water / Night Journey

Your Lovely Ways (Parts 1 & 2)

Mike Cooper, Ian Anderson*

The Inverted World (The Country Blues Of Mike Cooper Ian Anderson)

1969, LP, Album, Saydisc Matchbox,

Up The Country Blues!

1968, 7", EP, Saydisc

1993, CD, Album, President Records Ltd.,

Ian A. Anderson

Singer Sleeps On As Blaze Rages

Sir Alec Rose, Brass Ensemble Of Tower Music Of London

Lively Lady - The Sir Alec Rose Story

1969, LP, President Records

Wishing You Were Here

2014, 5xCD + Box, Freeform Association,

Free Improvisation

Truth In The Abstract Blues

2014, LP, Album, Ethbo Music

National Gallery

1995, CD, Album, Rhiannon Records, Rhiannon Records,

Zombie Bloodbath On The Isle Of Dogs

1987, LP, Album, Nato,

Free Improvisation

APPEARANCES +

Eternal Equinox

2025, 10xFile, MP3, Album, Room40

Buy Batteries And Shelter Pets

2022, 2xFile, FLAC, Album, Room40

2021, Box, Ltd + 2xDVDr, DVD-V, Ants

Cane Fire (OST)

2021, 11xFile, MP3, Album, 320, Room40

2002, File, MP3, Single, 128, Tu M'p3

Shake That Thing! The Blues In Britain 1963-1973

2023, 3xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Strawberry (26),

Blues Rock/Folk/Country Blues

Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection

The Lagniappe Sessions

2022, 5xFile, MP3, EP, Aquarium Drunkard, Full Time Hobby,

Folk! / Volume 1

2022, CDr, Album, Setola Di Maiale

Folk! / Volume 2

2022, CDr, Album, Setola Di Maiale,

Experimental/Folk

Ambient Americana (A Road Trip Across Psychic State Lines)

2021, CD, Comp, Uncut (2),

Separate Paths Together (An Anthology Of British Male Singer/Songwriters 1965-1975)

2021, 3xCD, Comp, Grapefruit Records,

Free Improvisation

Francesco Paladino

De Musica Et In Fungorum Effectis

2020, 4xCDr, Album, Ltd, Silentes,

Abstract/Ambient/Modern Classical

Caroline Kraabel, London Improvisers Orchestra

We Stay Apart Because We Love Each Other. Love Is Stronger Than Greed.

2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released),

Free Improvisation

2020, LP, Discrepant,

Field Recording/Abstract/Sound Collage/Sound Art/Rhythmic Noise

Cercueill Flotant

2019, Cass, MiniAlbum, Sucata Tapes

The Curved Air Family Album

2019, 2xCD, Comp, Curved Air Records,

Ambient/Experimental/Space-Age

London Improvisers Orchestra

Twenty Years On

2018, 2xCD, Album, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released),

Free Improvisation

Frets Of Yore: A Collection Of GuitART Pieces For The Immediate Past

2017, CDr, Album, Ltd, Spectropol Records,

Experimental/Avantgarde

Almost The Country Blues: EPs & Extras 1966–1969

2016, CD, Comp, Ghosts From The Basement

2016, CDr, Album + CDr, Album + CDr, Album + CDr, Album , Unpredictable Series

Curved Space & Infinity

Prog Rock/Experimental

Elio Martusciello

2011, CD, Album, Ticonzero

I Never Meta Guitar (Solo Guitars For The 21st Century)

2010, CD, Comp, Clean Feed

Pigiama Psicoattivo

2008, CD, Album, Off, Off,

Jazz-Rock/Experimental

Stefan Grossman

Friends Forever (Guitar Collaborations)

2008, CD, Album, Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop,

Lawrence English

For Varying Degrees Of Winter

Abstract/Ambient/Experimental/Glitch

Anthems In Eden (An Anthology Of British & Irish Folk 1955-1978)

2006, 4xCD, Comp + Box, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music, Castle Music,

Elastic Jazz - Sketches Of Britain

2005, CD, Comp, Auditorium Edizioni,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Fusion/Free Improvisation

Lawrence English

Field Recording/Experimental/Minimal/Ambient

Footprints In The Snow (An Anthology Of The British Singer-Songwriter Genre 1965-1974)

2004, 2xCD, Comp, Castle Music,

The Now Now. 2003

2003, 2xCD, Comp, Tenzenmen

Spectral Soprano

2002, 2xCD, Emanem,

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Soul-Jazz

Not Necessarily "English Music"

2001, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Leonardo Music Journal, Electronic Music Foundation,

Free Improvisation/Experimental

1999, CD, Album, Goethe,

Free Improvisation

Leftfield/Downtempo/Trip Hop

The Dawn Anthology

Vocal/Prog Rock/Folk Rock/Blues Rock

1998, CD, Comp, RE, The Weekend Beatnik

Steve Beresford

1996, CD, Album, Tzadik

1996, CD, AI Associazione Di Idee,

Experimental/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

Tony Hymas - Barney Bush

A Sense Of Journey

1995, CD, Comp, Nato

Women With Voices

1993, CD, Album, Slam Productions,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Manolo Sanlúcar - Orquesta Ciudad De Málaga Dirigida Por Enrique García Asensio*

Aljibe (Sinfonía Andaluza)

1992, CD, Album, Aspa Records

Leftfield/Blues Rock/Avantgarde/Contemporary Jazz/Art Rock/Jazz-Funk/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Folk

Radical Dance Faction

Radical Dance Faction

Borderline Cases

Bandes Originales Du Journal De Spirou

1989, 2x Vinyl,

Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Free Improvisation

Matchbox Days (14 Tracks Of British Folk Blues 1967-1970)

1986, 2xLP, Album, Impetus Records

1986, LP, Comp, Nato,

Spoken Word/Contemporary Jazz/Vocal/Art Rock/Free Improvisation/Swing

Café De La Place

1986, LP, Album, Nato

Ron Cooley (2) & Deliverance

1986, LP, Album, Shekinah Records,

1984, LP, Album, Nato

Guitar Festival

1984, LP, Album + LP, Album + LP, Album + Box, Comp, PGP RTB, Kicking Mule Records

Stefan Grossman

Country Blues Guitar

Live Series Number One

1984, Cassette C60,

Abstract/Experimental/Post-Punk/Synthwave/Sound Art/Noise

Kilroy Was Here

Rocks In The Sea

1980, 7", EP, Breakwater Records (2)

Stefan Grossman

How To Play Blues Guitar Vol. 2

Stefan Grossman

Bottleneck Serenade

Can You Feel It?

Twice As Nice & Half The Price

The Dawn Take-Away Concert

Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde/Classic Rock

Manuel Pareja Obregón

Sevillanas Antológicas - Vol. I

Les Cousins (The Soundtrack Of Soho's Legendary Folk & Blues Club)

2024, 3xCD, Comp, Strawberry (26),

Synthetic Bird Music

Aquapelago: An Oceans Anthology

2022, LP, Comp, Discrepant

Being For The Benefit Of Kafé Hærverk!

2021, 64xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Hærverk Industrier,

Crawling Up A Hill - A Journey Through The British Blues Boom 1966-71

2020, 3xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Cla, Grapefruit Records,

Blues Rock/Chicago Blues/Electric Blues

The Drop Bear's Song: An Australian Bushfire Relief Album

2020, 44xFile, FLAC, Comp, Not On Label,

Isolatedmix 118

2020, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, A Strangely Isolated Place

続・幻の湖 (Lake Of Illusions Vol.2)

Strangers In The Room: A Journey Through British Folk-Rock (1967-1973)

2019, 3xCD, Album, Comp, RM + Box, Grapefruit Records,

Your Song, My Foot! Vol. 3: The 1979 Edition

2019, Cassette C85,

Experimental/Industrial/Musique Concrète/Free Improvisation

2018, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, FACT Magazine,

Ambient/Dub/New Age

The 400 Remix Project

IRMxTP Part I - I Had The Strangest Dream Last Night (The Owls Were Silent)

2017, 12xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Indie Rock Mag,

Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental/Ambient/Drone

Rvng Intl. Catalog Compendium Vol. 1

2016, CD, Comp, Mixed, Rvng Intl.,

Ambient/Acid/Downtempo

Peur Bleue Mix (07.06.16)

2016, File, MP3, Mixed, Not On Label (Alex Egan Self-released)

2016, 112xFile, FLAC, Comp, Linear Obsessional Recordings,

Sound Collage/Sound Art/Experimental/Minimal/Spoken Word/Speech/Abstract/Lo-Fi

Below The Radar 22

2016, 15xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Wire Magazine,

Minimal/Abstract/Free Improvisation/Experimental

Phil Cooper And Gavin Kendrick

La Escollera Session Two

2015, 2xCD, Comp, Mixed, NuNorthernSoul,

Late 2015 Label Sampler

2015, CD, Comp, Promo, Paradise Of Bachelors

2014, 80xFile, FLAC, Comp, Not On Label,

Experimental/Noise/Ambient

2014, Cass, Album, Comp, Old Bicycle Records,

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

Two Minutes Left

2014, 87xFile, FLAC, Album, Linear Obsessional Recordings,

Abstract/Experimental/Minimal

Sgustok Magazine Podcast 042

2013, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Sgustok Magazine,

Ambient/Experimental/Modern Classical/Drone

Smash Your Tom Tom, Listen To Sun City Girls

2012, 14xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Boomkat

On A Steady Diet Of Hash, Bread & Salt

2012, 15xFile, MP3, 320, Soundeyet,

Rebetiko/Experimental

Electric Eden - Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

2012, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Universal Music Operations Ltd.,

Asleep On Red Earth, Under Bright Stars.

The Future Sound Of London

Electric Brain Storms Vol.6

2010, 2xFile, MP3, Mixed, 320, The Pod Room,

Industrial/Krautrock/Abstract/Ambient/Acid Jazz/Downtempo/Experimental

2010, CD, Comp, P/Mixed, Promo, Room40, Wire Magazine,

Leftfield/Abstract/Field Recording/Experimental

Around = 聽在

2010, CD, Comp, Soundpocket

Cave Of Clear Light : The Pye And Dawn Records Underground Trip 1967-1975

2010, 3xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Esoteric Recordings,

Prog Rock/Folk Rock/Classic Rock

2010, CD, Comp, Folk Roots

2008, CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Mixed, Colette,

Leftfield/Indie Rock/Krautrock/Ambient/Easy Listening/Soundtrack/New Wave/Art Rock/Deep House/Italo-Disco/Synth-pop/Experimental

ELEVENELEVEN :: Speech Contamination

2008, File, MP3, Comp, 192, Alias Frequencies,

Abstract/Experimental/Ambient

2007, CD, Comp, Dig, Nato,

Folk Rock/Pop Rock/Art Rock/Afrobeat/Contemporary Jazz

Scarborough Fair The Best Of English Folk

2006, 3xCD, Comp, Castle Music,

2006, 3xCD, Comp, Box, Metro Triples,

Le Chronatoscaphe

2005, 3xCD, Comp, Ltd, Har, Nato, Nocturne,

Folk Rock/Latin/Pop Rock/Avantgarde/Contemporary Jazz/Soundtrack/Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Experimental/Musique Concrète/Minimal/Art Rock

Isole Che Parlano 00 03

2004, 2xCD, Album, Not On Label (Isole Che Parlano Self-released)

2004, CD, Comp, Gaff Music

Wizards And Demons (Music Inspired By The Writings Of J.R.R. Tolkien)

2003, CD, Comp, Castle Music,

Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Prog Rock

Dark Was The Night (A Tribute To The Music Of Blind Willie Johnson)

2003, CD, Album, Deep Sea Records

State Of The Union 2.001

2001, 3xCD, Album, Comp, Electronic Music Foundation,

Spoken Word/Free Jazz/Modern Classical/Avantgarde/Contemporary/Experimental

Sotto Il Sole Di Roma

2000, CD, Comp, Cervello a Sonagli

2000, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Castle Music

Woodford Blues Experience

1998, CD, Album, Comp, 7th Dimension Records (2)

Ocean Of Sound Volume 4 - Guitars On Mars

1997, 2xCD, Comp, Virgin, Virgin,

Abstract/Experimental/Ambient

1994, CD, Comp, Folk Roots

The British Folk Collection (The Very Best Of British Folk)

Dawn Of A New Age

1991, CD, Comp, Sequel Records

Jali House Rock

1989, CD, Album, Comp, Rogue Records (2),

African/Folk/Folk Rock

Red Rag Bag (15 Hot Hits From The Untrendiest Place In The World)

1984, Cass, Comp, Red Rag Bag

Masters Of The Folk Guitar

1983, LP, Comp, Autogram

Blues Guitar Workshop

Folk Festival - A Compendium Of Today's Folkscene Vol.4

1973, LP, Album, Autogram

This Is Dawn Sound!

1971, LP, Comp, Promo, Dawn (7),

Dawn Now Rock / Jazz Series

1971, LP, Album, Promo, Mis, Dawn Now Rock/Jazz Series,

Psychedelic Rock/Prog Rock/Folk Rock/Classic Rock

Janus Sampler '69

1969, LP, Comp, Smplr, Janus Records

Blues Like Showers Of Rain

Hard Rock And Co

LP, Comp, Pye Records

CD, Comp, Promo, TM Century,

2016, CD, Comp, RM, Unofficial, Particles (2)