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Copendium
Julian Cope
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Description for Copendium
Paperback. A collection of album reviews and themed track samplers. It takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 54. Weight in Grams: 936.
Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium - a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers - takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence.
Cope is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed, passionate, insightful and deeply funny. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571270347
SKU
V9780571270347
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About Julian Cope
Julian Cope is a visionary musician, antiquarian and musicologist. His work with the Teardrop Explodes and as a solo artist marks him has one of British music's great innovators. His studies The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European have established him as an authority on ancient history. And his joyful surveys Krautrocksampler and Japrocksampler have become required musical reading. He ... Read more
Reviews for Copendium
Copendium is a collection of album reviews, exactly 10 years worth, which Cope wrote for his own Head Heritage website. He homes in on the unsung, music that is unknown, unloved, even unreleased...If, like me, you thought you knew your musical onions, if you pride yourself on knowing or just owning the work of musicians whose mothers don t even ... Read more