But instead of giving up on his art and literary dream, he turned to music. When he was 19-years-old, Cooper wrote two books, but both were lost in a “cataclysmic hard drive crash”. “I was drawn to ‘East of Eden’ and ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’, those multi-generational family sagas where you see how one person’s life affects the family line.” “…the visuals as the young boy escapes combining with Cooper’s string arrangements are gorgeous, and as the music comes to an end you can’t help but smile.”Ĭooper says he always wanted to write a book.
The story goes the family’s blood flows with special abilities that range from seeing spirits to bringing the dead back to life, and their secrets end up binding them together to protect themselves against the world. The Northcotes have a strange, dark magic in their bloodline, which Cooper impressively conveys through melodic patterns and motifs across the three albums. What fans and music followers may not know however is his album releases, ‘The Family Tree’, over the past decade actually form a concept trilogy, with lyrical and music video themes encompassing both his own supernatural literary work and his childhood experiences. The latest album by Radical Face, ‘The Family Tree: The Leaves’, sees Cooper intertwine the story of the Northcotes, a fictitious 19 th century family, with his own personal accounts. Tickets.Floridian musician Ben Cooper a.k.a Radical Face is renowned across the world for his intricate and spellbinding music. ||| Live: Radical Face performs May 10 at the Teragram Ballroom.
Forthcoming is the sequel, “Everything Costs,” which will arrive as Radical Face embarks on a national tour that kicks off May 10 at the Teragram Ballroom. And it is in his sleep that the boy finally does battle with The Gilded Hand. The boy in “The Road to Nowhere” possesses strange powers (like writing on walls) that only come to him in his sleep.
(If the lyric video for “Secrets” doesn’t give you chills, check your pulse.) These children end up working in a factory run by an exploitative man known as “The Gilded Hand” (from Part 2 of the trilogy), whose ulterior motive for employing the kids is to run tests on their blood. Past vignettes have captured a little girl who walks on water when she sleepwalks, a girl who can bring animals back from the dead and two brothers who have conversations with their dead relatives - kids that are abandoned by their families because of their oddities. Like many of his storylines, Radical Face’s new video for “The Road to Nowhere” focuses on one of the children from the bloodline. Cooper’s orchestrated folk noir and rapt lyricism make for the most compelling of “reads.” In March, musical novelist Radical Face - the nom de tune Ben Cooper - released the final of his ambitious album trilogy, “The Family Tree: The Leaves.” As compositional endeavors go, it’s “Roots” compared to most songwriters’ “Love Story.” The albums, including 2011’s “The Roots” and 2013’s “The Branches,” follow the history of the mythological family the Northcotes, who have strange, dark magic in their bloodline, and the characteristics of the principals are articulated in melodic patterns that recur throughout the albums.
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