Penelope Trappes – Voices That Will Not Be Drowned

from Heavenly Spheres, the result of Penelope Trappes experimenting with only her voice, an upright piano and an old German reel to reel tape deck. Trappes explains, “I immersed myself in solitude and often deafening silence, and coexisted with an enormous amount of history and books. I grew to love this unfamiliar space as I recorded sound outside of my normal way of working, took long and sometimes psychedelic walks, channelled ghosts on tape, and ended up with about 35 pieces of music and sound art.” The album is an often-delicate study with unearthed sounds seemingly rising from the integrated tape hiss. Across the eight pieces, disembodied voices and delicate piano figures dance around hypnagogic songs at the edge of consciousness. Cassette / Digital: Nite Hive