Kieran Cooper
About Kieran Cooper from Auckland
Since 2004, Kieran has been playing solo and in bands throughout the Auckland area, formimg Auckland based alt-rock band Kasium in 2008 taking on lead vocals, guitar and songwriting. He produced their 2009 EP, a music video and their 2011 debut album. Kasium have had radio and TV exposure with singles from the album and they continue to play shows regularly.
Kierans solo career started with his self produced 2011 release ‘In Search Of Reason’. These were songs that didn’t fit for Kasium but kept coming back to haunt him. As a result the album is somewhat schizophrenic, dark, rich acoustic one minute, pounding rhythm’s and fuzz laden guitar leads the next. It was received warmly by music critics: “‘Awake’ is bleak. Think Marilyn Manson’s ‘godeatgod’ from Holywood, thought I dare to say Kieran Cooper has a greater vocal range than the artist formally known as Brian Warner. The music is a dreary, wind-ravaged metropolitan landscape and the Kieran’s voice is the empty building on the desolate nameless street…What you just listened to was not a song; it was a piece of art and a triptych at that.” “There’s so much I want to say about ‘Over me’, but there are so few words that could do the track justice. It is a truly beautiful work, but not in any conventional sense. It’s dark and cynical… listen to the words, like really listen.” - Petros, www.muzic.net.nz (Aug 03, 2011) Kieran is releasing his second album Yes, No, Sincerely one song at a time during February/March of 2012 and will be touring extensively in support of the album
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