HAPPENSTANCE, by Shane Cooper

HAPPENSTANCE

by Shane Cooper

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kim carsons One of my favorite albums I bought this year. What a beauty.

pasquale gentile Cammini. Voli. Ti guardi intorno. Pensi a te stesso.
Sei spensierato.
Sei riflessivo.
Sei al mare. Sei in montagna.
Stai ascoltando questo album. Favorite track: STATIC.

AVA.LUC Hazard of the web brought me there, and the surprise was intense, this is what music means to me: a journey between atmospheres and moods that brings to me joy and creativity when i create. That's a gem. Thanks Shane.

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HAPPENSTANCE on vinyl, with sleeve designed by Sam Bristow. Photography by Zivanai Matangi. Mastered by Sam Annand.

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Test pressing of HAPPENSTANCE, mastered by Sam Annand and pressed in Germany by Optimal. Minimal artwork, same lush sonics.

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We're extremely proud to present HAPPENSTANCE, a sprawling jazz-concrète project produced by Johannesburg composer and double bass player Shane Cooper. Approached in 2020 by interdisciplinary arts space The Centre For The Less Good Idea to create audio work, Cooper drew on his network in the thriving South African jazz scene, bringing in Bokani Dyer (piano), Cara Stacey (bows), Daliwonga Tshangela (cello), Gontse Makhene (percussion), Jonno Sweetman (percussion) and Micca Manganye (percussion).

Two days of free-flowing composition, improvisation and investigative recording followed, with the results captured on a vintage reel-to-reel tape machine. This tape was fractured and reassembled by Cooper, bringing into surreal focus tiny ecosystems of sound, like curls of static clasped from the air and brought under the magnifying glass. The results - two long, standalone pieces - are dizzying, weightless; musique concrète melding with jazz-schooled virtuosity in a dubbed out bricolage of interludes and u-turns.

Recommended for fans of Abdullah Ibrahim, Tony Allen, Floating Points and Daphne Oram.

Digital download contains whole LP side edits, as well as individual track downloads (radio edits).

www.newframe.com/happenstance-shane-coopers-sonic-adventures/

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released June 6, 2021

A: STATIC

Bokani Dyer - piano, composition.
Cara Stacey - umtshingo, umrhubhe, nyunga-nyunga, piano, composition.
Daliwonga Tshangela - cello, composition.
Shane Cooper - basses, synths, rhodes, guitar, composition, production, recording, mixing.
Assistant recording engineer - Zain Vally.

B: SKINS

Gontse Makhene - percussion, composition.
Micca Manganye - percussion, composition.
Jonno Sweetman - percussion, composition.
Shane Cooper - basses, body percussion, composition, production, recording, mixing.
Assistant recording engineer - Zain Vally.

All photographs by Zivanai Matangi.

Incubated and Commissioned by | The Centre for the Less Good Idea
Founder & Co-Director of the Board | William Kentridge
Founding Animateur & Co-Director of the Board | Bronwyn Lace
Animateur for the Centre | Phala Ookeditse Phala

Artwork by Sam Bristow. Vinyl mastered by Sam Annand.

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Shane Cooper Johannesburg, South Africa

Shane Cooper is a South African bassist, composer and producer. He lives Joburg.
He is one of the artists pushing the sound of South African jazz forward. You can listen to his sextet MABUTA, with their most recent album Finish The Sun. .. Shane also works with artists like Thandi Ntuli, Bokani Dyer, and Sisonke Xonti. He played with the late Zim Ngqawana.

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