Cosmo Sheldrake
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Cosmo Sheldrake
Jack Thompson-Roylance/Courtesy of the artist
- “Does the Swallow Dream of Flying”
- “Cease the Music”
- “However As soon as a Youngster”
- “Outdated Ocean”
In some methods, the unusual, lovely music of Cosmo Sheldrake seems like nothing else. But it surely additionally seems like all the pieces.
The English musician and composer is deeply impressed by nature, mixing discipline recordings and samples of wildlife noises along with his personal musical improvisations to create music that feels profoundly related to the world round us.
“It at all times appeared clear to me that animals had cultures,” he tells World Cafe throughout a video name. “That they inherit language in related methods. That they are extremely acutely aware beings like us.”
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Being fascinated with the sound and rhythm of nature’s consciousness is one thing that appears virtually genetically pre-determined for Cosmo — he’s the son of Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist recognized for his idea of morphic resonance, and Jill Purce, a voice instructor specializing in overtone chanting. His brother, Merlin Sheldrake, is a notable biologist and fungi skilled.
On this session, Cosmo joins us to speak about his newest album, Eye to the Ear, about his artistic course of, his influences and a few of the stranger sounds he is captured out within the discipline.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
