Various - Cope, Julian - Copendium

triple cd. just as the first wave of punk rock washed over, julian cope appeared as lead singer with the deceptively pop teardrop explodes. as his career evolved he embraced a much more outr musical landscape. the head heritage website is where he describes his idiosyncratic taste for the outer vistas of music: old, new, psychedelic, uncompromising, highly personal and frequently uncomfortable. this year faber & faber published a copendium of this writing and in conjunction with ace have produced a triple cd soundtrack to the book which is now available on faber & faber records.,never less than real, this compilation is as refreshing as it is challenging. it launches from the opening riff of lord buckley into a chronological trip through the dawn of hard rock/psychedelia/soundscapes of the late 60s/early 70s, arriving at the outer limits of punk with the final track on disc one.. with a great leap across the 80s, disc two is an intense, relentless destructo-guitar fest in the age of grunge. by disc three anything goes, acoustically or electrically driven, but the intensity does not abate. not for the faint-hearted, the whole set is held together by the cope doctrine of music. all of the music, sequencing and audio have been overseen by julian cope. a limited edition of 2000 copies. rough trade east in-store - faber social presents julian cope's copendium - thursday 8th november, 7pm