Mike Cooper - Radio Paradise: Mike Cooper in Beirut (2012)

Expat English guitarist performs deconstructed Delta blues in Lebanon; more or less sums up 'Radio Paradise: Mike Cooper in Beirut'. Equipped with a kaoss pad, acoustic and electric lap steel guitars, Cooper sings standards and his own songs to an abstracted, improvised backing of string swirl, droning basses and field recordings in a positively PoMo fashion. There's something endearingly ramshackle yet clever about Mike Cooper's music that's always got our interests piqued and this one is no different.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Mike Cooper - If I Get Lucky (5:01)
1.02 - Mike Cooper - A Dream Of Arrival (8:01)
1.03 - Mike Cooper - In Exile in Aghmat, Al Mutamids Grief at The Loss of I’timad (7:02)
1.04 - Mike Cooper - Special Rider (8:22)
1.05 - Mike Cooper - Migrant Song / Hearbreak Hotel (15:01)
1.06 - Mike Cooper - In Exile in Aghmat, Al Mutamids Nostalgia for Seville (9:53)