Joachim Badenhorst - carate urio orchestra COSMOS (2022)

Cosmos, the newest album by Joachim Badenhorst’s Carate Urio Orchestra, is a voyage into the deepest regions of the sonic universe, where we find sounds both hauntingly familiar and utterly strange. It tells the story of the last living swamp to have survived the dying of earth, preserved on a little biosphere floating in space. Under this lonely dome live 13 species of moss, 12 of ferns, 3 frogs (all the same species) and one man, named Doug. With his remaining days of human life, Doug learns the frog language and transcribes the Holy Book of Frogdom, scrawling it into the glass walls of the biosphere. This tale is told through through the musical imagination of 7 present-day earth humans: Liz Kosack (synthesizer), Simon Jermyn (electric bass, electric guitar), Brice Soniano (double bass, electronics), Bert Cools (electric guitars), Sean Carpio (drums), Jeremy Thal (French horn, trumpet, narration) and Joachim Badenhorst (clarinet, tenor saxophone, electronics, voice).