Description
Label Review.
2018 album also available in Vinyl
Our Overview.
Cosmo Sheldrake is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer with a penchant for crafting quirky, loo-driven sound collages inspirational and often nonsense lyrics and recording found objects in unusual environments, invokes ‘They Might Be Giants’ by way of Syd Barrett. Operating with a kitchen sink-style musical arsenal that includes banjo, loop station, keyboards, double bass, drums, penny whistle, sousaphone, and accordion, just to name a few, Sheldrake has performed both regionally and internationally.
Finally Cosmo is releasing his debut album ‘The Much Much How How And I’ out on Transgressive Records, sublimely unique compositions and songwriting with plenty of instrumentation in an alt-pop style.
'The Much Much How How and I' was written under the influence of a diverse group of musicians - ranging from The Beatles and The Kinks to Moondog and Stravinsky - and shaped by Sheldrake’s study of anthropology at the University of Sussex, his longstanding interest in ethnomusicology and a trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Sheldrake and Matthew Herbert (Björk, Mica Levi) produced the LP, which was recorded at Soup Studios and Sheldrake's own basement. Sheldrake plays a brief European tour later this month, with a headline date at London's Mick's Garage kicking off the run.