Karen Cooper Complex - Shinjuku Birdwalk - 1981 (Free Download)

Very Good lost album, wich is about to have a proper reissue this year, until then here's a free download from the band.

Double-LP vinyl release (with extra material) later this year on Academy LPs (NYC);
Available now as a FREE DOWNLOAD at WFMU's Free Music Archive -- http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Karen_Cooper_Complex/

New Karen Cooper Complex video made by a fan in LA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY_-ejmrjY0

"Shinjuku Birdwalk reveals a group of musicians that were ahead of their time. The tracks show traces of Zappa, The Residents and Furious Pig in a cross between 60s Beat generation poetry and 80s No-Wave. Karen Cooper practically chants over jazz and rock riffs.. The music is eerily magnetic and should appeal to those who like to stray off the safe path. This is a must-download." -- http://freealbums.blogsome.com

"...distorted echoes of prophets, and Border Breakers..." -- I Wanna Rock You Baby Blog (Hungary)

"What makes this band so fascinating is that you think of a hundred different bands when you listen to them, but at the same time KAREN COOPER COMPLEX sound like no one else...Great band!" -- homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com

"Hopefully, some enterprising reissue label will snatch this one up, as it's too good to exist only in the ephemeral form of a download." -- Mutant Sounds

Jason Sigal, Managing Director at WFMU said:
"This is amazing stuff and we would be honored to feature it in wfmu's curated portal on the free music archive...we have a lot of stuff to wade through to find gems like these."