COTTON MATHER - DEATH OF THE COOL EN BARCELONA

COTTON MATHER - DEATH OF THE COOL COTTON MATHER - DEATH OF THE COOL Discográfica:   Star Apple Kingdom It did not take 15 years for Cotton Mathers Austin-based main man, Robert Harrison to write the 64 songs (64 songs!) that comprise his latest musical vision, one song for each hexagram (defined as any of a set of 64 figures made up of six parallel whole or broken lines) of the I Ching, it s actually the amount of time that has passed since the last full-length album of new Cotton Mather songs was released. With so much new material on deck, it seems like Harrison is making up the difference. Half a dozen tracks from this treasure trove of new tunes have already been posted one-by-one in real time and real weather as Harrison describes this creative process, and now the first of an eventual four albums that will ultimately contain much of the entire song cycle, has been announced. Arriving on CD and Digital on July 29th 2016 and a deluxe Limited Edition Vinyl LP release on September 2nd 2016, the eleven-track Death of The Cool contains another nine of Harrisons pure pop meditations on Chinese philosophy, along with the two currently available tracks that initially announced the project The Book of Too Late Changes (based on I Ching hexagram #24: The Return) and Child Bride (based on #4: Youthful Folly.) Each songs commentary on the albums reflects how a translator traditionally shares thoughts on the reading, Harrison says. However, I will limit my commentary to the readings themselves, and let the songs enjoy a free-range lifestyle. For anyone thinking that 64 songs written around a single theme cant possibly maintain a standard of quality, welcome to the unlikely world of Cotton Mather. Founded by Robert Harrison in Austin in the early 1990s, the band initially had an experimental sound, but soon evolved into a guitar-driven pop group defined by accessible melodies, strong vocal harmonies and lyrical wit. Cotton Mather released its debut album Cotton Is King in 1994, but it was the follow-up album Kontiki, famously recorded on four-