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Folk on Foot

Cosmo Sheldrake in Boulsbury Wood

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The multi talented musician, producer and lover of the natural world Cosmo Sheldrake takes Matthew Bannister for a walk in the wood near his home in Hampshire. As well as creating electronic music from the song of endangered bird species and the sounds of deep sea creatures, he demonstrates his skill as a beat boxer, Mongolian overtone chanter and bones player; climbs halfway up a tree to sing in the wonderful acoustic of a clearing and covers a Tom Waits song. 

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0:00.0

Everywhere I go, people keep mentioning the name Cosmo Sheldrake to me.

0:12.6

Sam Lee did it first, and then I heard him.

0:16.0

Cosmo, I mean, playing away in the background of Sam Lee's extraordinary live stream Nightingale's event.

0:24.5

And then Johnny Flynn, when we went walking with him, said,

0:28.1

You must meet Cosmo Sheldrake.

0:30.3

And the reason they wanted us to meet him was because he is a man who loves the natural world

0:35.9

and engages with it and records it and uses it in making his

0:41.1

music and he is a multi-instrumentalist a composer and a producer and we're going to go for a

0:47.4

walk with him in the woods near his home.

1:11.6

Yeah. his home. His home. My I'm I'm I'm I'm

1:12.6

I'm Sit around here? So around here?

1:42.3

Cool. Just going to grab.

1:48.0

Actually, I might maybe need a hand with the ironing board.

1:53.0

I'll check first, I might just ask what you're doing, Cosmo.

2:13.9

Good morning.

2:15.7

You seem to have an ironing board in the shed. I do. Yeah, I'm just

2:21.6

is your studio. This is, yeah. You're going to, for us, you're kindly going to move your ironing

2:26.4

board and your keyboards out into the wood just around the corner here. Exactly, yeah.

2:31.6

Fantastic. Do you want me to give you a hand with the keyboard?

2:34.4

Potentially, I'm just going to untangle a few things here and then actually, yeah, one thing you could

2:38.0

do. So are you used to setting things up in the outdoors? I mean, is this something that you do the whole time?

2:51.7

Quite often, yeah. It's a, yeah, no, I'm actually very used to it. Well, I'm fortunate enough to be able to

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