Multi-instrumentalist Ray Cooper of the punk folk rock Oysterband is playing a set at The Albion pub in Northampton.
Ray, aka Chopper, will be playing on November 25, tickets are £12, with details available here.
Artist Biography
Ray Cooper is a Scottish/English songwriter currently living in Sweden.
When Cooper left art school in Brighton he decided to follow where music took him. He joined Oysterband, eventually recording 19 albums and touring in 27 countries. In 2013 he went solo and never looked back.
After setting up a recording studio in a small log cabin in Sweden he made his first album ‘Tales of Love War and Death by Hanging’ in 2010; it has a strongly historical theme. In 2014 he followed it up with ‘Palace Of Tears’ which was about more recent, more personal history.
‘Between The Golden Age & The Promised Land’ released in May 2018, will surprise many of his listeners. It is a big sounding record with serious themes but is nevertheless simple, raw, joyous, and unashamedly romantic.
While Cooper continues to develop as a singer, here he plays all the instruments too, in a stripped down production inspired by producer Rick Rubin’s treatment of Johnny Cash’s late recordings. The familiar mandolin, cello, guitar and harmonica are all there but Cooper also makes his recording debut as a piano player .
“I am half Scottish and half English, I live in Sweden, I tour in Europe, I have no home town, I think of myself as a north European now”.
You can find out more at www.raycooper.org
