mike cooper

The 10 Best Ambient Albums of 2020

The 10 Best Ambient Albums of 2020

In a year that felt lonelier than ever, some expected ambient music to be a soothing balm. Yet ambient artists capture the sadness, the bliss, the hurt, and the healing of this wild year better than most.

Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper: FRKWYS 11: Cantos de Lisboa

Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper: FRKWYS 11: Cantos de Lisboa

The latest FRKWYS collaboration is a fascinating musical conversation between musicians from two different generations of experimental music.
Mike Cooper: Trout Steel, Places I Know / The Machine Gun Co.

Mike Cooper: Trout Steel, Places I Know / The Machine Gun Co.

Paradise of Bachelors offers reissues of Cooper's early '70s albums and reveals a time in which the ever-shifting, ever-experimental musician was at his creative peak.

Mike Cooper: Rayon Hula