Penelope Trappes: A Requiem - COMPACT DISCS

Penelope Trappes: A Requiem - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

A Requiem

Artist:

Penelope Trappes

Label:

One Little Independe

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5016958106706

Genre:

Electronic

Release Date:

2025-04-04

Number of Discs:

1

Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes have their fifth full-length album 'A Requiem'. It comes alongside news of her signing to London imprint, One Little Independent Records. 'A Requiem' collects ten haunting, ambient soundscapes - incantations of dreams and nightmares, of death and grief, as well as power and autonomy. Carnal, transcendent cello drones are used to exorcise historical and generational traumas in an evocative and macabre piece of gothic experimentalism. Seeking solitude for what she knew would be an intense and cathartic writing experience, Trappes travelled to Scotland and isolated completely. Amidst meditative and psychedelic states, she channeled demons and accessed parts of herself she'd long desired to cleanse. During candle-lit recording sessions she found herself drawn to cello, an instrument she has no formal training in, she explains, "I always felt an affinity toward the cello, I embraced it, held it, and became one with it as a way to accompany my voice. The nerve-like strings of the cello became external chords of my vocal folds... I scratched on them, leaned into them, and conjured all of the textures I could muster".

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