JULIAN COPEコミュのA limited edition of 2000 copies の限定版発売

A limited edition of 2000 copies

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.

Cope is also a noted music writer, having written two highly regarded works on “Krautrock”’ and “Japrock”’ (post war to punk war Japan).

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.

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 doctrin