Lapsteel guitarist and electronic artist Mike Cooper and percussionist Mark Wastell, employing a paiste 32" tam tam and a shruti box, pay homage to the large acoustic sound mirrors used in Britain from 1916 to 1930 as an early form or radar, each of their detailed improvisation referencing one of the locations on the British south and northeast coasts.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: UK Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Studio 3, in Stoke Newington, London, United Kingdom, on October 3rd, 2018, by Rupert Clervaux.
"A forerunner of radar, acoustic mirrors were built on the south and northeast coasts of England between about 1916 and the 1930s. The 'listening ears' were intended to provide early warning of incoming enemy aeroplanes and airships about to attack coastal towns. The most famous of these devices still stand at Denge on the Dungeness peninsula and at the Hythe in Kent. [...] The development of radar put an end to further experimentation with the technique. Nevertheeless, there were long-lasting benefits. The acoustic mirror programme, led by Dr. william Sansome Tucker, had given Britain the methodology to use interconnected stations to pinpoint the position of an enemy in the sky. The system they developed for linking the stations and plotting aircraft movements was given to the early radar team and contributed to their success in World War II [...]"-from the liner notes