Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Modern Nature (UK)Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network plus guests TBA Friday Dec. 12th8:30 doors21+ $17adv/$20 dos https://modernnature.bandcamp.com/Jack Cooper is a musician and composer based near Cambridge, UK.He is primarily the leader of Modern Nature, a group that blurs the lines between folk music, modern composition and improvisation. Since 2019, alongside collaborators Jeff Tobias and Jim Wallis, they have released two critically acclaimed albums and a host of other material that includes an instrumental album, a short record called Annual and four cassettes of improvised music. Their next album No Fixed Point In Space is due in autumn 2023 on Bella Union Records.His notated music has been performed by the UK based chamber group Apartment House, at Fouroneone in New York and recordings of his pieces Tributaries and Arrival were released on the U.S. label Astral Spirits. In 2024 the BBC Concert Orchestra commissioned a piece called Triptych For Orchestra which was performed at the Southbank Centres Queen Elizabeth Hall.Describing his work, Jack Cooper says in all my work I provide a framework for musicians to interact within where no instrument or performer is more important than the other. All of the musical elements; the melody, the pulse, the dynamics and the narrative are the shared responsibility of the collective. I want to hear that magic in detail, so I lean towards slow and quiet musichttps://brigiddawson.bandcamp.com/album/ballet-of-apesTip-top of our osmosis list is the first quiver of tunes from Brigid Dawson and her newly minted Mothers Network: wise warnings dyed in dark hues, knotted and hard-won torch songs from the edge of a turbulent sea, bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown.
