Peggy Suicide Cope’s Notes #8 could be the killer: the downfall of Margaret Thatcher against the rise of Julian Cope through New Age thought, fierce London cycling, and a total obsession with capturing the essence of Rave, On-the-One Soul, and the compelling Baggy Beat of his youthful UK contemporaries.
Read through gales of laughter as Cope’s fights with his record company extract from him the most potent music of his career thus far. 52 pages of autobiographical exactitude place Peggy Suicide into the bizarre UK context of early ’90s New Age agitated city-dweller vexation: Ecstasy, riots, dolphins, crop circles – it’s all here.
Then there’s the 39-minute accompanying CD. Highlights include five songs of early ‘pre-enlightened’ material, and Cope’s wonderful ‘A Poll Tax Serenade’ medley.
The biggest Cope’s Notes yet, this fabulous and handsomely bound…
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A tribute to a tribute? During the final mix sessions for Peggy Suicide, Cope invited some musicians to Ramport Studio to celebrate the album’s completion. He called this late-night-party recording session E-Man Groovin’ – a tribute to the Jimmy Castor Bunch song of the same name, and the album’s mascot. Since Cope’s old digital tapes were damaged, this new tribute was created using recycled loops and samples from the original. Fifteen grooves imbued with the distinctive Peggy Suicide spirit – Kraut, Baggie, On-the-One – rescued from the archives of Oblivion! Yowzah!
Tracklist shows 15 tracks. However, CD only has 14 tracks. This is due to two of the tracks segueing together as one track. Track 12 is 5:55 long. “Rizla Deutschland” actually lasts…
Enigmatic, prolific singer/songwriter and author known for his genre-defying work and contrary personality.
Julian Cope welcomes you to the new age of the New Age with this brand new deeply sonic magical trip-out album. The three tracks invoke three different experiences: the 29-minute ’Star Garden’ emerges through the cosmic ooze like a grand ancient river gradually descending to meet its final coastal destiny; the shattered radio communications of ‘Who Put All Of This In Motion?’ perplex listeners through its veil of sonic mystery; the final epic ‘Psalm Zero’ is an incantation to the cosmos in which Cope duets with himself like some minimal avant-garde barbershop quartet. This CD is part of Head Heritage’s 2025 Ambient Autumn.