Penelope Trappes drops title track new ‘A Requiem’ full length
On April 4th, Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes will release her fifth full-length album “A Requiem”.
Penelope Trappes (Photo by Jason Renaud)
On April 4th, Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes will release her fifth full-length album “A Requiem”. It comes alongside news of her signing to London imprint, One Little Independent Records.
A new single and video are out now: the title track, “A Requiem“.
Penelope says: “A Requiem was written for my ailing parents, whom Iâve now said my goodbyes to. Since back in the UK, alone, itâs taken on another meaning as a connection with the earth under my feet here in the land that is my ancestral home. For the visual, Agnes Haus filmed me in the dead of night on a frozen field in a desolate part of East Sussex to capture the extreme cold and to honour the lonely darkness around two holy oak trees, one living, and one long dead.”
Penelope Trappes live dates
- 17.04 â Stoke Newington Old Church, London, UK
- 19.04 â Kapel Begijnhof, Diksmuide, BE
- 20.04 â Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, NL
- 25.04 â Sacred Trinity Church, Manchester, UK
- 26.04 â The Queenâs Hall, Edinburgh, UK
- 02.05 â Alphabet, Brighton, UK
About Penelope Trappes
Penelope Trappes is a UK-based Australian experimental vocalist, musician, and soundscaper renowned for her minimalist and ethereal compositions. She initially gained recognition as part of the electronic duo The Golden Filter.
In 2017, she embarked on a solo career with the release of âPenelope Oneâ via Optimo Music, followed by âPenelope Twoâ in 2018 and âPenelope Threeâ in 2021, both on the Houndstooth label.
In between she also released several both experimental and more dreampop-oriented EPs, and released an album of reworks, âPenelope Redeuxâ, with contributions by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Mogwai, and Nik Colk Void. The cassette, âMotherâs Bloodâ, was a vocal-free meditative reinterpretation of âPenelope Threeâ.
In 2023, Trappes launched her own cassette imprint, Nite Hive, debuting with the album âHeavenly Spheresâ, composed using just piano, voice, and an old reel-to-reel tape deck during a two-week artist residency.
Penelopeâs fourth album, âHeavenly Spheresâ, was released in 2023 on her own Nite Hive imprint. Most recently, 2024âs âHommelenâ was released on Paralaxe Editions.
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