As music developments go, you’re hard-pressed to find one more thoroughly up my proverbial street than this one.
While one crucial member short of a proper resumption of duty, my beloved Cop Shoot Cop have assumed the ready position, only not quite.
In support of their former producer Martin Bisi, C$C alumni Jim Coleman, Phil Puleo and the one and only Jack “Natz” Nantz reconvened in 2016 for a special jam session at Bisi’s Gowanus stronghold, B.C Studio. With Tod [A] still ensconced in Turkey, the secondary bass slot was filled by former SWANS bass player, Algis Kizys. Suffice to say, they didn’t end up playing a spritely medley of Abba covers.
What did happen can be heard below, recorded for posterity by Bisi and now about to see the light of day on the ensuing compilation album, BC 35. You can read more about that here.
Cooler than that, however, is the fact that this particular aggregation of New York noiseniks from two of my all-time favorite bands (Puleo, as if it needs mentioning, spent the last several years occupying the arduous drum stool for SWANS) are taking their new act to the mo’fucking STAGE! On April 20, the band – who originally were calling themselves, as I understand it, Cop Shoot Algys, and then Cop Swans Cop – are set to play the august stage of St. Vitus in Brooklyn as --- wait for it – EXCOP, flanked by similarly inclined ensembles like New Old Skull (featuring similarly re-convened members of Live Skull) and Bob Bert’s Nowhere Near, among others.
I, unsurprisingly, am very fucking psyched.
Hear EXCOP here.
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