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Penelope Trappes
Penelope Trappes
[ she/her ]
city: Brightoncountry: UK, Australia
genre: Experimental
styles: Experimental Ambient, Shoegaze, Downtempo, Dark Ambient
Next Release
via One Little Independent Records
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On April 4th, Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes will release her fifth full-length album ‘A Requiem’. The LP 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. ‘A Requiem’ is a musical service in honour of the dead, a sanctuary Trappes built for herself to explore familial chaos and history.
The album is a raw, spiritual journey. Astonishingly vulnerable, and a compelling examination of loss - the threat of it, the meaning of it, the coming to terms with it. Across an album of breathtaking compositions, we are asked to bear witness to a sacred personal experience like no other.
latest releases
Single
Sleep
out on October 30, 2024
via One Little Independent Records
LP
Heavenly Spheres
out on April 14, 2023
via Nite Hive
Single
Penelope Trappes Death Revisited
out on February 25, 2022
via The New Black
LP
Penelope Three (Mother's Blood Edition)
out on December 10, 2021
via Houndstooth
LP
Penelope Three
out on May 28, 2021
via Houndstooth
Single
Blood Moon
out on May 18, 2021
via Houndstooth
