song: Linger Longer
artist: Cosmo Sheldrake
album: The Much Much How How and I
released: 2017length: 5:25
Dusty rays and shattered beams
Slippery roads and sunburned dreams
Winter's loss becomes summers gleam
Come wobbling out of the ocean
Come trickle back to den and roost
Come claw and tooth
And fish and goose
Come fin and tail
And paw and tooth
For life has a passion for living
Distant thoughts become cluttered mind
What is a drop in the ocean?
Far and few but long behind
We're spun by the heavenly motion
Ring the bell sound made crystalline
Ring out for the cause of all notions
April's dew becomes Autumn's wine
Leave everything always unbroken
Slippery roads and sunburned dreams
Winter's loss becomes summers gleam
Come wobbling out of the ocean
Come trickle back to den and roost
Come claw and tooth
And fish and goose
Come fin and tail
And paw and tooth
For life has a passion for living
Distant thoughts become cluttered mind
What is a drop in the ocean?
Far and few but long behind
We're spun by the heavenly motion
Ring the bell sound made crystalline
Ring out for the cause of all notions
April's dew becomes Autumn's wine
Leave everything always unbroken
Cosmo Sheldrake
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 biologist Merlin Sheldrake. He released his first single, "The Moss"/"Solar", in 2014 and followed it up with the Pelicans We EP in 2015.
Paul Lester, writing for The Guardian in 2014, called Sheldrake “a multi-instrumentalist, and we don't say ‘multi’ lightly: he plays about 30 instruments, including jazz and classical piano, banjo, double bass, drums, didgeridoo, penny whistle and sousaphone. And he uses a loop station to do interesting things to his voice, which itself is capable of Mongolian throat singing and Tibetan chanting.”
He released his first album, The Much Much How How and I, in 2018. George Sully, writing for The Skinny, said, “Baroque waltzes and storybook lyricism paint Sheldrake as ostentatiously weird. But the album is a deep and entrancing journey, given the chance, and his mastery of style and composition means its rich, hidden corners might take a few listens to uncover.”
Sheldrake’s second album, Wake Up Calls (2020), took over nine years to make. Sheldrake layers and manipulates recordings from birds (mostly) on the red and amber endangered lists in Britain, producing calming and beautiful melodies. The album starts at night with a Nightjar and a Nightingale. The music progresses, track by track, through dawn and day time, round to the evening chorus and back to night with another Nightingale and an Owl.
His EP Wild Wet World (2023), is composed entirely of field recordings of marine life and environments. Like Wake Up Calls, Sheldrake worked on the album for nearly 10 years. In his words, “It features the sounds of humpback whales singing, sperm whales clicking, weddell seals courting, coral reefs spluttering, bucktoothed parrot fish crunching, an oyster toad fish grunting, pistol shrimp snapping, long horned sculpins honking, bluewhales lamenting, and haddock drumming, and a rare recording of the voices of the the U.K's last remaining killer whale population who, along with their unique dialect are doomed to extinction as they are no longer fertile due to chemical contaminates in their waters.”
Sheldrake’s third album, Eye to the Ear, was released on April 12, 2024.
Reference List
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/mu...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://audioxide.com/articles...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
Paul Lester, writing for The Guardian in 2014, called Sheldrake “a multi-instrumentalist, and we don't say ‘multi’ lightly: he plays about 30 instruments, including jazz and classical piano, banjo, double bass, drums, didgeridoo, penny whistle and sousaphone. And he uses a loop station to do interesting things to his voice, which itself is capable of Mongolian throat singing and Tibetan chanting.”
He released his first album, The Much Much How How and I, in 2018. George Sully, writing for The Skinny, said, “Baroque waltzes and storybook lyricism paint Sheldrake as ostentatiously weird. But the album is a deep and entrancing journey, given the chance, and his mastery of style and composition means its rich, hidden corners might take a few listens to uncover.”
Sheldrake’s second album, Wake Up Calls (2020), took over nine years to make. Sheldrake layers and manipulates recordings from birds (mostly) on the red and amber endangered lists in Britain, producing calming and beautiful melodies. The album starts at night with a Nightjar and a Nightingale. The music progresses, track by track, through dawn and day time, round to the evening chorus and back to night with another Nightingale and an Owl.
His EP Wild Wet World (2023), is composed entirely of field recordings of marine life and environments. Like Wake Up Calls, Sheldrake worked on the album for nearly 10 years. In his words, “It features the sounds of humpback whales singing, sperm whales clicking, weddell seals courting, coral reefs spluttering, bucktoothed parrot fish crunching, an oyster toad fish grunting, pistol shrimp snapping, long horned sculpins honking, bluewhales lamenting, and haddock drumming, and a rare recording of the voices of the the U.K's last remaining killer whale population who, along with their unique dialect are doomed to extinction as they are no longer fertile due to chemical contaminates in their waters.”
Sheldrake’s third album, Eye to the Ear, was released on April 12, 2024.
Reference List
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/mu...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://audioxide.com/articles...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
https://www.cosmosheldrake.com...
listen:
The Main Mix
You could skip and let the rest of us enjoy the song.
Well, well, well; that explains a lot.
once again I thank whomever comes up with these musical genre titles, as they frequently give me a chuckle.
Cosmo Sheldrake
is a London-based multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and
producer. He is the son of parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake and voice
teacher Jill Purce.
Wow, and he looks as cool as he sounds.
Cosmo comes off as a weird geeky pale young man, (Not to be confused with "Pale young Gentlemen"). His lyrics make me want to play Dungeons and dragons. What does mead taste like? But I digress, The world needs more Cosmo and less Kanye. A lot less Kanye.
Does the world need any Kanye? (my apologies to Kanye fans)
"He is the son of parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake and voice teacher Jill Purce."
Well, well, well; that explains a lot.
Rupert Sheldrake (father) is an accomplished botanist/biologist. Do not pay attention to the Wiki postings of him. The posts are created by his detractors. Sheldrake poses (among other thoughts) that consciousness may be a field, much like gravity and magnets are fields.
I was unaware of his son's music. I enjoy what is being played here. June 2022
Gotta love someone named after a TV character!
or a soviet space dog.
Cosmo comes off as a weird geeky pale young man, (Not to be confused with "Pale young Gentlemen"). His lyrics make me want to play Dungeons and dragons. What does mead taste like? But I digress, The world needs more Cosmo and less Kanye. A lot less Kanye.
I could go for a glass or four of mead right now.