Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - In Pursuit of Ghosts (Official Video by Kevin McGloughlin)

Stream/download ’Yearning for the Infinite’: Subscribe to Max Cooper: and enable alerts. Max Cooper: The final track from the album was written with my long-term collaborator, the great pianist and composer, Tom Hodge. Visually it’s a story of how, as individuals, we are compelled to keep going, indefinitely. The imagery from Kevin McGloughlin uses an early example of moving image by Eadward Muybridge, featuring a woman walking, the simplest few frames, yet a scene which speaks a thousand words. It needed something somber but with hope to represent the visual story of our endless pursuit and attempts to make sense of the world we live in, amongst the chaos circling around us and going on inside our heads. My synth work didn’t seem to do it justice. I thought perhaps an old instrument to match the image source could work better, so I drew on recorded sessions with Tom to find the right musical fit. The same applie