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Ray CooperTales of Love War and Death by Hanging (Westpark) Known to most people as Chopper, Ray Cooper has been a longstanding member of the award winning group Oysterband. Cooper's solo album debut shows his voice off to full effect as well as his song writing and multi-instrumental skills. Although most of the songs are self penned, there is a generous sprinkling of traditional material from Scotland and Sweden. The heart of the album lies somewhere between the old world and the new, at times giving a pithy relevance to events that happened in the distant past.
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More info: Special guests: Patrik Andersson - violins, viola, hardanger fiddle Dil Davies - tom tom drum Olle Linder - pandeiro/tambourine Rowan Godel - backing vocal Ray Cooper produced and recorded this album in a small log cabin in Sweden, accompanying himself on cello, harmonium, guitar, mandolin, mandola, harmonica and kantele. A friend, the fiddle player Patrik Andersson (won Norwegian Folk Awards for 'best dance album 2008') helped out with string arrangements, contributing violin, viola and hardanger fiddle. The sound is simple but at times evokes a much bigger scale. Ray cites influences such as; T-Bone Burnett, Enio Morricone, Johnny Cash and June Tabor to name but a few. The recordings then came to the Brighton UK for some additional overdubs and mixing with executive producer Al Scott.
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