WENDOVER: Real Magic Books

Sunday 20th October, 2024

5:00pm

Event information

Our final event of the weekend, a special musical closing party on the shop. Super excited to welcome Jack Cooper aka Modern Nature to close our second Real Magic Weekend by performing a super cool, stripped back set on the shop floor amongst the books, as is now traditional for our closing event.

Supported by Sidney Jones and her band. Cocktails will be served, the bar drunk dry. Was so lovely last time, come and see off the weekend with us.

Modern Nature, a group that blurs the lines between folk music, modern composition and improvisation. Since 2019 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 latest album No Fixed Point In Space came out last year 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 Centre’s 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 music”

He was previously a member of the rock bands Mazes and Ultimate Painting and has worked as a touring musician for Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) and The David Nance Group.