Cosmo Sheldrake Advocates for Nature’s Publishing Rights on New Album Eye to the Ear Out Today via Tardigrade Records/FUGA |
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“Cosmo Sheldrake takes a unique approach to his music usually, but with Eye to the Ear he has taken his process and matured it, grown as an artist, and created a project that reflects that.” – American Songwriter April 12, 2024 – Today, London-born Cosmo Sheldrake has released his highly-anticipated new album Eye to the Ear via Tardigrade Records. Already garnering support from American Songwriter, CLASH, The Line of Best Fit and others, Eye to the Ear finds the multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer expanding his dazzling musical universe which is rooted in practices of listening – both to human and more-than-human sound worlds. Eye to the Ear is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cosmo's first full-length album, The Much Much How How and I (2018). A work of remarkable range and maturity, Eye to the Ear sees Cosmo move from soulful ballads arranged for a nine-piece female and non-binary choir (HOWL) to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of curlews, whales, fish, and frogs, in a continuation of Cosmo’s dialogues with the rhythms and tones of the living world that he explored on Wake Up Calls (2020) and Wild Wet World (2023). Recent singles include the haunting “Interdimensional,” the riotous “I Stitched My Mind Back to My Body” and the melancholic love letter to the sea “Old Ocean”. Cosmo has also shared the hypnotic “Stop the Music” and album-bookending “Does the Swallow Dream of Flying”, which surpassed one million streams within the first week. Together, Eye to the Ear creates a journey that feels both vast and intimate as it ranges deftly between folk forms, jazz, electronic and experimental pop. Cosmo's musical humor is a welcome and ever-present companion. Cosmo’s commitment to engaging musically with the living world is well-established. He is a core member of the More Than Human Rights Project, and based on his exploration of the sounds of the more-than-human world, he has pioneered an approach to sharing the publishing royalties of his new releases, attempting to directly return funds to the animals and places that have inspired – and, on a number of tracks, co-authored – the music (see recent article in The Guardian). A percentage of the royalties generated by Eye to the Ear will be donated to ‘the Earth’ through Brian Eno’s organization EarthPercent. In addition, specific tracks on Eye to the Ear that feature the sounds of more-than-human organisms have specific royalty arrangements. For example, Cosmo has assigned 30% of the publishing rights of the track “But Once a Child” to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ (RSPB) curlew recovery program, which works to conserve populations of these endangered birds. Similarly, he has assigned 10% of the publishing rights of the track “Lichens” to the Fungi Foundation. Eye to the Ear was produced by Cosmo and mixed by Dilip Harris (King Krule, Micachu, Mount Kimbie) and features 21 tracks combining traditional instrumentation, electronic production, and field recordings. Animated by themes of interconnection and symbiosis, Eye to the Ear is Cosmo's most accomplished creation to date – as a producer, composer, performer and songwriter – and makes it clear that the living world is a noisy and musical place with the power to change the way we think, feel, and imagine. Eye to the Ear Tracklisting: 1. Gnort Or Gnortle 2. Stop the Music 3. Marvellous Clouds 4. I Did And I Don't And I Do 5. Old Ocean 6. By Being With You 7. I Stitched My Mind Back to My Body 8. The Feet Are the Link 9. Half Past Three 10. I To the Maybe Go 11. Tea For Seventeen 12. Breathe Round Corners 13. Run 14. But Once a Child 15. Shiny Is the View 16. The Snapping Of Shrimp 17. More Than a Mountain 18. Lichens 19. Flora's Pond 20. Interdimensional 21. Does the Swallow Dream of Flying UK + EU 2024 Tour Dates: April 12 - Rough Trade East, London (sold out) April 15 - Rough Trade, Bristol (sold out) April 17 - The Academy, Dublin (sold out) April 18 - Stereo, Glasgow (sold out) April 19 - Yes, Manchester (sold out) April 20 - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds (sold out) May 2 - SWX, Bristol May 3 - EartH, London (sold out) May 4 - EartH, London (sold out) May 15 - Trix, Antwerp (sold out) May 16 - Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam (sold out) May 17 - Le Hasard Ludique, Paris (sold out) May 18 - Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, Cologne (upgraded) May 20 - Knust, Hamburg (sold out) May 21 - Metropol, Berlin (upgraded) May 22 - Theaterfabrik, Munich (upgraded) May 28 - Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna July 19 - The Minack Theatre, Penzance Oct 2 - The Caves, Edinburgh Oct 3 - New Century, Manchester Oct 4 - Project House, Leeds Oct 16 - KOKO, London Connect with Cosmo Sheldrake: |
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