Cosmogramma

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Cosmogramma
Flying Lotus studio album

Publication
(s)

May 3, 2010

admission

2009

Label (s) Warp Records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Electronica (music) , hip-hop

Title (number)

17th

running time

45:36

occupation
  • Flying Lotus: Electronics
  • Brian Martinez: Guitar (track 16)
  • Laura Darlington: vocals (track 16)
  • Low Leaf: Keyboard (track 14)
  • Niki Randa: vocals (track 4)
  • Rebekah Raff: Harp (tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 15, 17)
  • Richard Eigner: Drums (track 12)
  • Thundercat (Stephen Bruner): bass (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17), vocals (tracks 9, 14)

production

Flying lotus

Cosmogramma is the third album by the American musician Flying Lotus . It was on May 3, 2010 at the label Warp Records released.

Music genre

On Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus tries consciously to distance itself from its previous style of music and production, after it has been imitated by a large number of young artists. Flying Lotus writes its songs on Cosmogramma in a more conceptual approach, with a concrete vision of the end product. The result goes beyond its previous construction of beats and mixes the usual rhythm-oriented basic elements with elements of jazz and glitch . Flying Lotus himself describes his album as "in a way a jazz album".

Album title

The title of the album goes back to the fact that Flying Lotus was listening to a recording of a speech by his great-aunt Alice Coltrane in an ashram . At first he misunderstood her words “cosmic drama” (“cosmic drama”) as “Cosmogramma” (interpretable as “cosmic grammar”); It wasn't until much later that he found out that the word “Cosmogramma” really exists.

Track list

All titles, with the exception of the noted exceptions, were composed by Flying Lotus

  1. Clock catcher - 1:13
  2. Pickled! - 2:14
  3. Nose Art - 1:58
  4. Intro / A Cosmic Drama - 1:15
  5. Zodiac Shit - 2:44
  6. Computer Face / Pure Being - 2:33
  7. ... And the World Laughs with You (Flying Lotus / Thom Yorke) - 2:55
  8. Arkestry 2:51
  9. MmmHmm (Flying Lotus / Thundercat) - 4:15
  10. Do the Astral Plane - 3:58
  11. Satelllliiiiiteee - 3:49
  12. German Haircut - 1:57
  13. Recoiled - 3:37
  14. Dance of the Pseudo Nymph - 2:47
  15. Drips / Auntie's Harp - 2:10
  16. Table Tennis (Flying Lotus / Laura Darlington) - 3:02
  17. Galaxy in Janaki - 2:28
  18. "Velvet Cake" (Japan Bonus Track) - 2:40

technician

reception

Cosmogramma was named 14th Best Album of 2010 by Pitchfork Media and was named "Album of the Year" in the 2011 Gilles Peterson World Wide Awards .

The album received 86 out of 100 points on Metacritic .

Chart successes

Charts position
Belgium 41
United States 60
UK 88

particularities

Alt takes

The label Warp Records , published in January 2011, the Old Takes , a collection of outtakes and new versions of the songs on the album. Owners of the album on CD or vinyl can download the alt takes free of charge using the image recognition software Trigger (programmed by Jeff Crouse ). The album must be held in front of a webcam. After successful detection you will receive a download link .

Fieldlines app

Before the album was released, the Fieldlines application programmed by Aaron Meyers in OpenFrameworks became available. It is an animated and interactive version of the cover artwork designed by Leigh McCloskey .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Clash Music Interview with Flying Lotus . Clashmusic.com. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 8, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clashmusic.com
  2. ↑ Adventures in Augmented Reality: Download New Flying Lotus Tracks With Your Webcam . Sfweekly.com. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Chris Martins: Flying Lotus Rising - Page 1 - Music - Los Angeles . LA Weekly. May 13, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  4. ^ The Top 50 Albums of 2010 . Pitchfork Media. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  5. ^ Gilles Peterson - World Wide Awards 2011 . BBC. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/cosmogramma/flying-lotus
  7. ↑ Cosmogramma: Chart placements
  8. ↑ Special Announcement - 'Trigger' webcam application, download 'Cosmogramma Alt Takes' MP3s . Waro Records. Retrieved September 10, 2013.

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