Every week Unofficial finds an unknown artist in Los Angeles and brings them right into your ears. Coop&Myan cross paths with someone interesting, ask them if they want to share themselves with the world and we get a glimpse of someone’s life we would otherwise never know. This week it’s a young man named William Thomas Brunet, a visitor from Lyon, France, here in America making his way as an artist, a songwriter and most often, a professional drummer. Now if you’ve been paying attention you know that Unofficial has a tenuous relationship with practitioners of the Percussive arts but that is only circumstantial and now that we have a dedicated time-keeper on our sofa (and one serenading us for the first half of this very episode) it’s time to stop the jokes and venture down the rabbit hole of what makes this particular percussionist tick…tap and bang.
Will has the spirit of Shaman, the physique of a cyclist and the diet of an angel. He owes his predilection for music in part to his father who himself played Country and Bluegrass music…in France. Undoubtedly a unique environment for a boy who later would find a gift for timing in a genre of hardcore music, among others. His self-professed arrogance as an adolescent may have been the root of his distaste for certain instruments and structured education but there is no doubt that it was also a key to his path toward a more aggressive, personal music style.
Coop&Myan do a fairly decent job of staying on topic this week but diverge just enough to bring you Myan's brief Wikipedia history of Halloween, Will’s take on the cerebral challenges of the German language and Cooper’s silent protest to authority that time he was sent to the principal’s office for his unwavering commitment to the art of Mime. The delightful surprises never stop with Cooper.
Unofficial is just a few months away from a new studio and Coop&Myan are stoked to branch out and spread their wings in a new space, so keep tuning in and telling your friends and we’ll keep pumping out episodes of original content. Coop&Myan, Coop, Coop&Myan!!!
