ca509 - Red Cosmos - There And Back

Artist: Red Cosmos
Title: There And Back
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Date: 2013-01-21
Keywords: psychedelic; indie; dream-pop; electronic; choraldelia; post-pop; pop
(320 kbps)
Tracklist:
01 - St Albans Colour Explosion (5.26)
02 - Cross Your Heart And Hope To Die (4.49)
03 - You Said You Loved Me (4.59)
04 - I Am The Local DJ (4.15)
05 - England's Glory (5.35)
06 - Staring Downwards (6.04)
07 - Do Geese See God? (3.22)
08 - The Song Has Changed (5.46)
09 - Iron Rush (4.55)
10 - I Decided To Love You (4.10)
11 - Parting Shot (4.48)
12 - Nothing Is Happening (6.00)
13 - Mrs Jones (5.39)

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Based in York (UK), Red Cosmos is the solo project of Kim Tortoise. Kim was previously a member of The Gods Themselves with Art Moran. They made two super-limited cassettes of novelty tunes and five-minute fade-outs.

The very first Red Cosmos track (The Chicken Song) consisted of looped samples of Kim Tortoise Junior and friends talking about chickens, backed by a playful electronic beat. This set the mould for most of Kim�s early output. However, the track Son of Morris, a cut-and-paste shoegaze number (featuring vocals by Art Moran) changed direction somewhat and garnered airplay on WFMU and Dandelion Radio. A prolific output in demo mode ensued, and a Red Cosmos re-mix cum mash-up of the Gwilly Edmondez sound-poem Balls Roll Everywhere was described as �possibly one of the daftest tunes I�ve ever played� by Andrew Morrison (Dandelion Radio).

This is Red Cosmos' first long-player There And Back. It includes (amongst others) a choraldelic ode to the legendary Psych re-issue label Bam Caruso Records (St.Albans Colour Explosion), a high-voiced love song sung by a kidnapper (You Said You Loved Me), and a track featuring Kim Tortoise's father-in-law reciting a poem about the fate of Iron Stone Miners in Yorkshire (Iron Rush).      

There And Back seems to have pleased and perplexed in equal measure. One reviewer wrote that he was �forced to throw my headphones across the room and slap my own ears� during the chorus of England�s Glory.

Contact:
kimtortoise@hotmail.com
http://redcosmos.bandcamp.com
http://www.last.fm/music/Red+Cosmos