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CMU Approved
Approved: Jack Mazes – Art Is Cheap
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 28 November 2011
“Art is cheap… people make millions and trillions of pounds out of a brain cell firing successfully. It’s crazy. I’ll write you a song for £10… send me a song title and your email address and I’ll be in touch… a song title or anything, guitar part, drum beat… whatever. I’m feeling inspired”.
Thus blogged Jack Cooper (singer with Dalston-based DIY champions Mazes) earlier this year by way of an introduction to his ‘Art Is Cheap’ project, as part of which he spent a week writing songs especially for anyone who asked. Fifteen of the 35 tracks composed in that week are now available to download, either individually or as a digital album, via Cooper’s Bandcamp page.
From rosy birthday sonnet (and every girlfriend’s dream) ‘Lotti’, to ‘Johnny Says I’m A Witch’, as slots a Broadcast drum sample into a sleepy Byrds homage, most of the tracks are lent character by a note of accompanying context.
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