COSMOGRAF ALBUM: IT’S ABOUT TIME!
Robin Armstrong clocks five aspects of a metaphor in as many musical styles.
Cosmograf’s new album Rattrapante will be released on March 26 – and a follow-up is already in the works, mastermind Robin Armstrong reports.
The eighth Cosmograf album to date focuses on people’s interactions with time. It features Kyle Fenton on drums plus a cameo from The Blackheart Orchestra singer Chrissy Mostyn and contributions from voiceover artist Tommy McNally.
“It’s five stories, or five aspects of the central theme, and the metaphor really is elapsed time, measurement of time and what we do, how we perceive it,” Armstrong explains. “I really don’t like to make the same album twice, so it’s very much the case that I consciously try to make each one different. In places this album is very proggy. I think it’s probably a more varied album in terms of styles. It doesn’t really sit within one style.”
The release of Rattrapante (from the French for ‘catch up,’ referring to a watch with two second hands that can therefore keep time to two events at once) helps soften the blow of Cosmograf having to reschedule a trio of rare live shows originally planned for last October. The gigs, due to be played alongside Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly, have been pushed back to later this year.
Thanks to a creative splurge last year, Armstrong has already begun work on the project’s ninth album. He says that record will also revolve around the concept of time, but that it’s “much more nostalgic” and will focus on a certain period in time.
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