Kassel Jaeger plans Toxic Cosmopolitanism for Editions Mego, should be kept under close supervision at cocktail parties

Kassel Jaeger plans Toxic Cosmopolitanism for Editions Mego, should be kept under close supervision at cocktail parties

If your headline-reading skills are up to snuff, you already know that Kassel Jaeger, the Paris-based solo and collaborative artist and member of Pierre Schaefer’s legendary Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) has a new album coming out on Editions Mego. But the headline wasn’t enough for you, was it? You’re such a ravenous consumer of music news that a mere headline won’t sate you. You need more! You need cold hard details. Like a release date (March 17) , and a pre-order link (here), the title (Toxic Cosmopolitanism), and maybe even a joke or two about that album title (it’s a concept record about how easy it would have been to poison all the Sex and the City ladies when they were out on the town drinking Cosmos)!!

Reader, it’s people like you that make me proud to do what I do. I’m not just a headline machine. No, I’m more than that. I’m a human being, with feelings, and an ego so large that I’ve got to turn every news post into a joke about myself. And you need me to tell you things like the fact that this album consists of two side-length tracks, both of which are based on the same source material. Side A, “Toxic Cosmopolitanism,” takes an array of sounds from around the world, including “the balafon, tremolo, gnbri, gee, tibetan gongs,” and pan flutes, and swirls them all up into a milkshake of creativity. Side B, “Exposure Scales,” which is divided up into four sub-pieces, uses the same sounds found on “Toxic Cosmopolitanism” to build a more static composition. Hear “Sunlight,” part two of “Exposure Scales,” below.

Toxic Cosmopolitanism tracklisting:

01. Toxic Cosmopolitanism
02. Exposure Scales

• Kassel Jaeger: http://www.kasseljaeger.com
• Editions Mego: http://editionsmego.com

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