Mike Cooper (Reading, 1942) can boast an unusual trajectory within the contemporary music scene. With more than sixty recordings published, he is an icon of the Anglo-Saxon blues. For some years he has also been an alchemist of the creation of new soundtracks for silent film classics, such as Tabú (1931), which is now screened at the Teatre de Manacor.
The film was commissioned by the Australian Brunswick Festival and was directed by F.W. Murnau. Between ethnographic documentary and expressionist drama, Tabú is the tragic story of a couple of Polynesian lovers who for love break a sacred tradition of their community.
