Cosmo Sheldrake + Howl

Cosmo Sheldrake is a London-based multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer. Cosmo released his first single ‘The Moss’ in 2014, which was followed by the ‘Pelicans We’ EP in 2015 and his debut album The Much Much How How and I in April 2018. He collaborated with Bernie Kruase at The Great Animal Orchestra exhibition at Foundation Cartier in Paris and in 2019 he released a series of Wake up Calls, pieces composed entirely from recordings of endangered British birds. He has toured internationally, composed music for film and theatre, and in 2015 he ran a community choir in Brighton. He releases music through his own label Tardigrade Records.

Howl are a collective of singers from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds, from folk to opera. We came together in between lockdowns during the pandemic, gathering in parks or back gardens, singing together over the last year whenever and however we could. We have put together an eclectic program of all the music we discovered together during this strange time, including Venezuelan contrapuntal music, choral works by Caroline Shaw and Meredith Monk, our own re-workings of trad songs from the British isles and new compositions by Cosmo Sheldrake, Emilio Reyes, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens and Lydia Samuels.