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The Government Center
Tue July 9 7:30 pm all ages $12 advance/$15 door
physical tickets on sale at Government Center Records (no service charge)
online tickets at Brown Paper Tickets (service charge)
https://coopemoonpittsburgh.brownpapertickets.com
dark folk from Brooklyn on Jagjaguwar Records
ANASTASIA COOPE
https://anastasiacoope.bandcamp.com/
on tour with Moses Archuleta from Deerhunter (Brooklyn)
performing dreamy electronics as
MOON DIAGRAMS
https://moondiagrams.bandcamp.com/
with special guest
1000Z OF BEEZ
https://ieattruth.bandcamp.com/album/go-home-worms-single
The feeling that Anastasia Coope’s music transmits seems to emanate from a precipice beyond the material world, like a void or memory pressing up against the veil. It’s exacting and enveloping, but unmoored in space and time: ghostly, spectral, far-out folk.
Darning Woman, her debut album, feels like a dispatch from another past. Akin to lullabies or nursery rhymes, its minimal folk instrumentation contorts into something staccato and strange led by Coope’s expressive, stratified vocals.
In spite of the suggestion of antiquity that runs through Darning Woman, 21-year-old, Brooklyn-based Coope is very much a contemporary artist. Born to an English father and American mother (whose original Martin acoustic she uses to compose), she was raised in the New York village of Cold Spring. The lonely landscapes and small towns of the Hudson Valley populate her songwriting, setting wintry backdrops against the acrobatics of her voice.
Her experience making this record was a largely insular one, too; she began recording music while staying at a relative’s empty home in Beacon, NY, experimenting with recording software in an empty living room, singing directly into the open space. Until that point, Coope had only thought of herself as a visual artist, not a musician– but it felt right immediately. Throughout the next year, she worked to invent the lush, sweeping universe conveyed here.
Like Coope’s paintings, drawings, and mixed media artworks, which occasionally feature among the imagery in her album and single materials, her songwriting yields an esoteric distance. It invites you to see, to feel, rather than know – but for all that’s arcane here, Darning Woman is rooted deeply in the things we can touch.