Cosmo Sheldrake
{{Short description|English musician (born 1989)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| name = Cosmo Sheldrake
| image = Cosmo_Sheldrake.jpg
| alt = black-and-white image of Cosmo Sheldrake standing onstage, singing into a microphone
| caption = Sheldrake performing in 2015
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| birth_name = Cosmo Christopher Sheldrake{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/search/?name=Cosmo_Sheldrake&event=_london-london-england-united+kingdom_85535&birth=1989&successSource=Search&queryId=df36fc4793569095a1e0d4a56b0a40e1 |title=Cosmo Christopher Sheldrake |website=Ancestry Institute |publisher=Ancestry |access-date=24 November 2022}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1989|12|16}}
| birth_place = London, England
| genre = {{hlist|Baroque pop|electronic|folktronica|indie}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|composer|record producer}}
| origin =
| instrument = {{hlist|Keyboard|double bass|drums|guitar|banjo|clarinet|percussion|sousaphone|vocals}}
| years_active = 2014—present
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| website = {{URL|cosmosheldrake.com}}
}}
Cosmo Christopher Sheldrake is an English musician, composer, and producer. He is the son of parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake and voice teacher Jill Purce, and the brother of mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. He released his first single, "The Moss"/"Solar", in 2014 and followed it up with the Pelicans We EP in 2015.{{Cite news|url=https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/interviews/interview-cosmo-sheldrake/|title=Interview: Cosmo Sheldrake - M Magazine|date=6 February 2018|work=M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine|access-date=1 September 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902054937/https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/interviews/interview-cosmo-sheldrake/|archive-date=2 September 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cosmosheldrake.com/about/|title=Cosmo Sheldrake|website=Cosmo Sheldrake|access-date=1 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901182626/http://www.cosmosheldrake.com/about/|archive-date=1 September 2018|url-status=live}}
Career
Described as a "musical visionary"{{cite web|last1=Arnoldi|first1=Oliver|title=Cosmo Sheldrake - New Music|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/new-music/11192690/cosmo-sheldrake-transgressive-records-the-moss-edward-lear-lewis-carroll-bonobo-roland-bernie-krause-hampstead-bekonscot.html|website=The Telegraph|access-date=9 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716143718/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/new-music/11192690/cosmo-sheldrake-transgressive-records-the-moss-edward-lear-lewis-carroll-bonobo-roland-bernie-krause-hampstead-bekonscot.html|archive-date=16 July 2017|url-status=live}} by The Telegraph, Sheldrake has been releasing music since 2014.
His debut single, "The Moss", was released on 25 March 2014,{{cite web|last1=Cunningham|first1=Jamie|title=Listen: Cosmo Sheldrake – "The Moss"|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/cosmo-sheldrake-the-moss-149108|website=Best Fit}} followed by a debut EP, Pelicans We, on 6 April 2015,{{cite web|title=Pelicans We EP|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pelicans-we-ep/id966539135|website=iTunes|access-date=9 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220202526/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pelicans-we-ep/id966539135|archive-date=20 February 2016|url-status=dead}} and a debut album, The Much Much How How and I, on 6 April 2018.{{cite web |last=Day |first=Laurence |title=Cosmo Sheldrake details debut album The Much Much How How And I |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/cosmo-sheldrake-details-debut-album-the-much-much-how-how-and-i |website=Best Fit |access-date=9 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130105328/https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/cosmo-sheldrake-details-debut-album-the-much-much-how-how-and-i |archive-date=30 January 2018 |url-status=live}} His second album, Wake Up Calls was released on 18 September 2020.{{Cite web |title=Wake up calls |url=https://theecologist.org/2020/sep/15/wake-calls |access-date=4 February 2022 |website=theecologist.org}} His third album, Eye to the Ear, was released on 12 April 2024.{{Cite web |last=Damara Kelly |first=Tyler |date=17 January 2024 |title=Cosmo Sheldrake announces his second studio album, Eye to the Ear |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/cosmo-sheldrake-announces-his-second-studio-album-eye-to-the-ear |access-date=12 April 2024 |website=The Line of Best Fit}}
Sheldrake founded and runs the record label Tardigrade Records, with Moth Records as an imprint.{{cite web |last=Sheldrake |first=Cosmo |title=Moth Records |url=https://www.cosmosheldrake.com/mothrecords |access-date=26 December 2024}} In 2015, he included "Tardigrade Song" on his EP Pelicans We, imagining himself as a tardigrade.{{cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Bob |title=The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World |date=11 May 2023 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-5293-5598-7 |page=266 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zO2lEAAAQBAJ&dq=Tardigrade+Song+sheldrake&pg=PT266}}{{cite web |title=Cosmo Sheldrake – Tardigrade Song |url=https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/02/cosmo-sheldrake-tardigrade-song/ |website=Folk Radio UK – Folk Music Magazine |access-date=21 September 2019 |date=2 February 2015}}
Much of Sheldrake's work is concerned with improvisation, nonsense, and the sonorous environment. He has provided music for film and theatre, including the score for a series of Samuel Beckett plays at the Young Vic in London.{{cite news|last1=Lester|first1=Paul|title=Cosmo Sheldrake (No 1,724)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/20/cosmo-sheldrake|website=The Guardian|date=20 March 2014 |access-date=9 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524102046/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/20/cosmo-sheldrake|archive-date=24 May 2016|url-status=live}} Sheldrake also performs solo and with several bands including Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit and the Gentle Mystics. His song "Come Along" was featured in an advertisement for Apple's iPhone XR in the US and UK.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/28/color-flood-iphone-xr-ad/|title=Apple Releases New 'Color Flood' iPhone XR Ad|last=Slivka|first=Eric|website=www.macrumors.com|date=28 December 2018 |language=en|access-date=4 January 2019}} The song subsequently charted at number 39 on the US Digital Songs chart dated 26 January 2019.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/digital-song-sales|title=Digital Music Chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=27 January 2019}}
Sheldrake's single "No. 3", released in 2022, features in an advertisement for Apple, of the Mac Studio and Apple Studio Display.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bucksmusicgroup.com/news/724-cosmo-sheldrake-features-on-apple-advert|title=Cosmo Sheldrake features on Apple advert|website=Bucks Music Group|access-date=30 November 2022}}
Discography
=Albums=
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| The Much Much How How and I
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Wake Up Calls
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Eye to the Ear
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=Soundtracks=
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| scope="col" style="width:8em;"| Title
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Galápagos
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=EPs=
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| scope="col" style="width:8em;"| Title
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Pelicans We EP
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Do
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Wild Wet World
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=Singles=
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|+ {{Sronly|List of singles with selected details}} ! scope="col" style="width:15em;" | Title ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Album |
| scope="row"|"The Moss"
| 2014 | rowspan="5" {{Non-album singles}} |
|---|
| scope="row"|"The Woods" {{small|(with Erin Robinsong)}} | 2017 |
| scope="row"|"In Berlin" {{small|(with Deep Throat Choir)}} |rowspan="3" | 2018 |
| scope="row"|"Run Rings Right Wrongs" |
| scope="row"|"I Threw a Rock Into the Sea" |
| scope="row"|"Owl Song"
|rowspan="2"|2019 | Wake Up Calls |
| scope="row"|"Orby/Prefusify"
| rowspan="2" {{Non-album singles}} |
| scope="row"|"Nightingale Wake Up Calls"
|rowspan="3" | 2020 |
| scope="row"|"Cuckoo Song"
| Wake Up Calls |
| scope="row"|"Beech" {{small|(with Robert Macfarlene)}} | rowspan="2" {{Non-album singles}} |
| scope="row"|"No. 3"
|2022 |
| scope="row"|"Bathed in Sound"
|2023 | Wild Wet World |
| scope="row"|"Stop the Music"
| rowspan="5" |2024 | rowspan="3" |Eye to the Ear |
| scope="row"|"Old Ocean" |
| scope="row"|"Interdimensional" |
| scope="row"|"Song of the Cedars"
|rowspan="2" {{Non-album singles}} |
| scope="row"|"Soil (feat. NATURE)" |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{official website|cosmosheldrake.com}}
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