Mr. Cocoon
(Winter Palace Records 2011)
streetdate: 2011
Mr. Cocoon (David Cabrera) is an LA based musician, DJ, VJ, and visual artist. He began his career as a live visualist in San Francisco in 1995, where he performed interactive slide shows of his original photography. This eventually evolved into a performance approach of a live musician and happenings in the spirit of psychedelic narratives, Nam June Paik and late 60’s light shows. Employing a combination of self-produced footage, found video and live-synthesized video sources, Cocoon developed a technique of his own. His visual shows have been featured with DJs and bands and at clubs, underground parties, and galleries since 1995. Often he uses upwards of seven overlapping projectors and both analog/digital and optical components to create new textures and visual compositions. Cocoon has performed video art collaborations with Ladytron, Peanut Butter Wolf, The Flaming Lips, Lance Rock, The Polyamorous Affair, Lady Tigra, and The Cacophony Society. He also has gained a following as a host to some of east LA’s most debaucherous after hours parties and secret speakeasies. But that’s all we can say about that.
In addition to a feverish devotion to video art, he was composing music all the while. Cocooning himself in a home studio situated in the space he dug out of the foundation below his Silverlake home, he recorded over 1,200 tracks within its earthen walls. Mr. Cocoon rarely played his music live, but rather for the positive therapeutic effects its sounds had on himself as the composer. Suffering from hallucinations and depression since his teens, Mr. Cocoon created his own custom music as a means of healing, utilizing sound vibration an alternative to pharmaceuticals. This winter he will release 10 of the tracks which have brought balance and harmony to his moods, beneficial synchronization of his brain hemispheres, altered the frequency resonance of his being, uplifted his spirit and elevated his mood. Mr. Cocoon hopes listeners will become participants in a journey to inner space. He also hopes they will dance.
track list:
1. Thai Tea
2. Zardoz
3. Bike Riders Speed
4. First Launch
5. Bedpost
6. Andromeda
7. Amaze Me
8. Wasabi Loves Sushi
bandpage: http://mrcocoon.bandcamp.com/
label page: http://winterpalacerecords.com/
