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08 Feb 2010

 

 

Flying Lotus

 

Warp have announced that Flying Lotus' new album, Cosmogramma, will be released on May 3rd in the UK and the following day in America.

Flying Lotus's 2008 debut, Los Angeles, laid the foundation for a field on which an entire generation of artists would soon be playing. While that album was an introspective, moody travelogue through the Californian metropolis, it certainly hinted at Flying Lotus' inclination to expand his sound beyond terrestrial means.

As you may deduce from the title of his latest opus, he's done just that. Not only has an entirely new range of sounds been unlocked by our intrepid astral traveler, but every genre touchstone associated with his name has been merged into a self-described "space opera".

Seamless in execution and too wide in scope to properly describe, it is the authentic embodiment of his unique musical heritage. The spirit of his famed aunt, Alice Coltrane permeates the record, notably in the powerful collaborations with relative Ravi Coltrane, bass virtuoso Thundercat and the brilliant harp prodigy, Rebekah Raff.

Certainly these are further reaches into a musical space that Flying Lotus had hitherto been exploring, however other collaborators such as Erykah Badu and Outkast string arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and guest vocalists Thom Yorke and a returning Laura Darlington (featured on Los Angeles' epic closing track Inifinitum) help deliver Cosmogramma to dizzying new heights.

Download three recent non-album tracks here.


Cosmogramma

 

Cosmogramma Tracklisting
Double Gatefold Vinyl / CD / Digital

  1. Clock Catcher
  2. Pickled!
  3. Nose Art
  4. Intro//A Cosmic Drama
  5. Zodiac Shit
  6. Computer Face//Pure Being
  7. ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
  8. Arkestry
  9. Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat
  10. Do The Astral Plane
  11. Satelllliiiiiteee
  12. German Haircut
  13. Recoiled
  14. Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
  15. Drips//Auntie's Harp
  16. Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington
  17. Galaxy In Janaki


Live Dates 2010 So Far...

February
15 Element - Victoria, British Columbia
16 Gossip - Vancouver, British Columbia
17 hi-Fi - Calgary, Alberta

March
02 AB club Brussels, Brussels-capital
03 Paradiso (5 days off fest) - Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
04 Le Bellevilloise - Paris, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
05 Berghain - Berlin, Berlin
06 Bios - Athens
11 Thekla - Bristol
12 Concorde 2 - Brighton

12 - 14 Bloc, Minehead
25 S.A.T - Montreal, Quebec

April
17 Coachella - Indio, California
20 Brainfeeder Radio LIVE, Worldwide - more info TBA

 

 


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