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News: Erland Cooper Reveals Music Has Survived On His Buried Tape And Releases First Two ‘Unearthed’ Singles

The first two singles from a surviving tape that was buried underground by Scottish composer Erland Cooper 3 years ago are released in line with the Summer Solstice. This follows a triumphant…

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News: Erland Cooper, Folded Landscapes (Piano Version) LP out on November 3rd also set UK Tour in September

Hailed as ‘nature’s songwriter’ for his work celebrating themes of the natural world, people and time, renowned composer, producer, performer and conceptual artist Erland Cooper pushes his musical exploration of…

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News: Erland Cooper releases his chorally collaborative ‘Egilsay’ EP: see a making-of film and find out more about his debuting silent movie score performance

MAGISTERIAL Orcadian composer Erland Cooper has released his second choral collaboration with the Shards ensemble, an EP focussing on one of Orkney’s northern islands, Egilsay, featuring four tracks of and…

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News: Erland Cooper unveils a new collaborative EP with vocal ensemble Shards, ‘Egilsay’; hear a first track, the stunning ‘Glimro’

ORCADIAN genius Erland Cooper has today revealed that his next musical project will be a collaboration with the vocal ensemble Shards, on an EP again an evocation and a love…

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News: Erland Cooper signs for Mercury KX, buries his latest album in the soil of Orkney as a three-year time capsule with a treasure hunt ensuing; watch a short film

SIGNING today with one of the leading modern compositional imprints, Decca/Mercury KX, Orcadian composer Erland Cooper has marked the occasion in a fascinating if not entirely expected way. He already…

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News: Erland Cooper announces digital epilogue to his astonishing Orcadian trilogy; hear Bill-Ryder Jones’s rerub of ‘Haar Over Hamnavoe’

THE SUPERB ambient-psychogeographical triptych by Orcadian musician and composer Erland Cooper, Solan Goose, Sule Skerry, and Hether Blether – which themselves are receiving a gorgeous box set treatment, more of…

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TRACKS: Erland Cooper wraps up the year with a gorgeous choral EP, ‘Eynhallow’

ERLAND COOPER wraps up a year in which he’s brought us much light, creativity and joy with one final aural missive, the choral EP, Eynhallow, out today on Phases. Hether…

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TRACKS: Erland Cooper – ‘Landform’: a digital companion to the Orkney trilogy

ORCADIAN soundscaper and composer Erland Cooper has today released one final digitally streamed companion piece to accompany his beautiful Orkney Triptych. Take a listen below. Its a seven-track, 35-minute ambient…

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LIVE REVIEW: Erland Cooper, The Barbican, London: bringing the soul of Orkney to the heart of the capital

TO THE Barbican, that beautiful, brutalist residential and cultural hub in London EC2: for a gig. A gig! Livestream or not, it’s a red letter day in 2020. Ah ……

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TRACK: Erland Cooper shares ‘Holm Sound’ ahead of this weekend’s streamed Barbican show

THE DELICATE and psychogeographic recent canon of Orcadian Erland Cooper has, to partially quote Camper Van Beethoven, “increased by exactly one” today, with the release of the gossamer piano yearn…

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