Cosmo Sheldrake – North America Tour

The astonishing twenty-one tracks on Cosmo Sheldrake's forthcoming album, Eye To The Ear, range from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to irresistible dance numbers. Animated by themes of interconnection and symbiosis, Cosmo's expansive musical imagination is rooted in practices of listening–both to human and more-than-human soundworlds. Eye To The Ear, Cosmo's most accomplished creation to date–as producer, composer, performer and songwriter–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. Cosmo is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, accomplished live improviser, and field recordist from London who started playing the piano at the age of four. Since his first single 'The Moss' (2014), Cosmo has built a large audience of dedicated listeners. A series of successful EPs, ʻPelicans Weʼ (2015), ʻDoʼ (2021), and ʻWild Wet Worldʼ (2023) have fuelled viral social media successes. 'Birthday Suit' electrified TikTok in 2020, and reached millions, many of whom caught Cosmo performing to sell-out crowds in the UK, USA, Japan, and ontour across Europe. 'Come Along' was the soundtrack to a global Apple iPhone commercial in 2019 and has since been streamed more than 200 million times. Cosmo has composed for the Cirque de Soleil (2020), a series of Samuel Beckett plays at the Young Vic (2014), created immersive audio installations at Kings Place (2023) and the Vienna Biennale (2021), made a radio program on making music with birdsong for BBC Radio Three, organised community choirs, and co-written and produced with a range of artists including Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters), Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, and Mr Jukes. Alongside his numerous solo tours, he has opened shows for The Prodigy, Sylvan Esso, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Johnny Flynn, and Bombay Bicycle Club, among others. Today, Cosmo, 34, is more independent than ever, releasing his new work through his own label, Tardigrade Records, and his publishing company The Much Much How How. Eye To The Ear is the eagerly awaited follow up to Cosmo's first full length album, ʻThe Much Much How How and Iʼ (2018), produced by Matthew Herbert. A work of remarkable range and maturity, Eye To The Ear sees Cosmo move from soulful ballads arranged for a nine piece female and nonbinary choir (HOWL), to riotous party numbers featuring a six-parthorn section in ʻI Stitched My Mind Back To My Bodyʼ, to sparse electronic production given texture by a string quartet in ʻI Did and I Donʼt and I Doʼ, to the intoxicating, surrealistic stomp of ʻRunʼ, to the forest funk of ʻShiny is the Viewʼ, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of curlews, whales, fish, and frogs, in a continuation of Cosmoʼs dialogues with the rhythms and tones of the living world that he explored on ʻWake Up Callsʼ (2020) and ʻWild Wet Worldʼ(2023). Together, these twenty-one tracks create a journey that feels both vast and intimate as it ranges deftly between folk forms, jazz, electronic and experimental pop. Cosmo's musical humour is a welcome and ever-present companion.