The Cosmic Shambles Network Announces The 8-Part Docuseries, For The Record: An Incomplete History Of Music, Is Coming To Digital This Summer
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For The Record: An Incomplete History Of Music features Charlotte Ritchie, Charlotte Church, and Chris Hadfield. See the trailer here.
The Cosmic Shambles Network has revealed the trailer for their upcoming docuseries, For The Record: An Incomplete History of Music. There are few cultural universals quite like music. It has the power to invoke the entire gamut of human emotions in a way almost nothing else can. In this groundbreaking docuseries, The Cosmic Shambles Network covers the history of music like no series ever has before.
ABOUT THE DOCUSERIES AND HOW TO WATCH IT
Over four years in the making, presenter Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts, You) will take you on a fun-filled journey. This journey spans from the very first sound waves after the Big Bang to the future of AI music. It covers almost everything in between. Bone flutes and Blues. Neanderthals and Nightingales. Techno and Tabla. Featuring over 100 exclusive interviews with world-leading musicians, scientists and historians. For The Record: An Incomplete History of Music is the ultimate story. It explores the how, when and why of music.
An 8-part docuseries, For The Record: An Incomplete History of Music, will launch on YouTube over Glastonbury Fallow Weekend, starting on 25th June, with a bonus episode available to Patreon users.
Directed and produced by Trent Burton (Rapid Motion Through Space, Curious People), For The Record: An Incomplete History of Music features exclusive new music from David McAlmont, Ruarri Joseph, Charlotte Carpenter, Sonny Tennet and more.
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
Speaking on the history of music, singer Charlotte Church said,
“I feel privileged to be a part of this … I think because music has always been extraordinarily powerful. Human beings need music. I think that music can enhance anybody’s life, absolutely anybody. If you’re sad, if you’re depressed, if you’re angry, if you’re stuck, listen to more music. I feel like there’s a real remembering going on at the moment about the importance of music, along with stuff to do with the climate and nature and the planet. I think we’re being drawn back to remembering the way things have been and how do we care for ourselves because we are custodians of the planet. It’s not very complicated. Like anyone knows, you listen to a song you love and you just, for whatever reason, you just feel better. There’s something that happens that makes you feel better.”
DIRECTOR TRENT BURTON
“As a non-musician, I have always been fascinated by, and enamoured with music. Some of my fondest memories are either attached to music or involve being at a music event. So when choosing the next topic for our ‘Incomplete History of…’ series, it seemed such a natural choice. It was a way to explore a thing I loved so much but knew little of beyond what I enjoyed. It didn’t take too long into the research period to realise that the story of music is the story of humanity itself in many ways.
And so, in true Shambles style, we couldn’t do it by half measures. Every interview we did led me to another corner of music history I wanted to explore. I wanted to talk to another person, and then another, and then another. At some point, you just have to embrace the ‘incomplete’ moniker. You keep researching in your spare time, or the series would never get finished.
By the time Glastonbury fallow weekend rolls around, and the series is released, it will be four years in the making. This is our biggest project yet. I’m incredibly excited for people to take a look at the history of music in a way that has never been told before. Because, let’s be honest, no one else is foolhardy enough to try.”
– Trent Burton, Director
For The Record: An Incomplete History of Music will be available via The Cosmic Shambles Network on YouTube from the 25th of June. Check out The Cosmic Shambles Network on YouTube here
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