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Erland Cooper Never Pass Into Nothingness Last seen burying an album master tape in the soil of his Orcadian homeland (it’s due to be exhumed in 2024), singer-composer Cooper’s first offering for Universal imprint Mercury KX is a ruminative instrumental EP with a short accompanying film by photographer Alex Kozobolis. Inspired by film-maker Margaret Tate’s vision of beauty emanating from quotidian environments, and with a nod to John Keats’ Endymion in the title and Kathryn Joseph’s hushed recitations, Never Pass Into Nothingness is an almost Zen-like hymn to timeless, transporting quietude. “Peace can be found in exploring a poetry below your feet or just above your eye,” avers Cooper in the film’s introductory commentary, while the footage, shot in monochrome, follows the composer as he perambulates a drizzle-marinated City of…

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