Cosmo Sheldrake
+ Bunty
Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist.
His music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and more. Running through all his work is a belief that the living world is a noisy and musical place with the power to change how we think, feel, and imagine. Together with his human and non-human collaborators, Cosmo creates music that speaks to the urgency and possibility of our times.
Cosmo has toured internationally with sold-out headline shows across North America, Europe, and Japan. He has composed music for both film and theatre and, in 2015, ran a community choir in Brighton, UK.
Cosmo’s song Come Along was featured in a global Apple commercial, resulting in the track hitting #1 on Shazam across the world. In 2020, his song Birthday Suit trended on TikTok and has over 75 million streams on platforms with over 1 million video uploads using the track.
In 2020, he released Wake Up Calls on his label Tardigrade Records, featuring tracks composed entirely from recordings of endangered British birds.
In 2023, Cosmo released Wild Wet World, an EP that is an homage to the ocean.
His new album, Eye to the Ear was released on April 12th 2024.
Together with his brother Merlin, he runs a business selling live, fermented hot sauce.
Line Up
'Great Voice' BBC radio 6 Tom Robinson 'Brighton's Rising star' BBC radio 3 Nick Luscombe Kassia Zermon aka Bunty is a unique force best known for pioneering underground experimental vocal loop shows and fronting UK leading Dub act Resonators. Bunty's distinctive voice has been championed by likes of Rodigan, Mark Lamar and BBC 6 taste makers Tom Robinson and LaurenLaverne. Hard to fit into any box this lady's influences are huge, bringing her Morrocan Londoner roots to create her own blend of raw avant – pop music. Bunty's powerful avant- pop orchestra has been compared to FKA Twiggs and Tune-Yards. Combining the rawness of early M.I.A with the lyrical espionage of Tom Waits and a voice that can sound as sweet as Ella Fitzgerald (on Acid). She has performed her boundlessly creative live shows at all the main UK festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival,and Secret Garden. Bunty has supported an eclectic mix of acts including Jamie Woon, scroobius pip, Kate tempest and Susheela Raman. She has collaborated with world class beatboxers Dub FX, Shlomo and Beardy man and some of UK's top vocal improvisers such as Maggie Nichols. Live Bunty uses her synths, toys, ukulele, voice, effects pedals and a mash of real and made-up languages.She whispers, bellows, beatboxes, claps and stamps producing impressive vocal harmonies for her hook heavy tunes.
