Penelope Trappes

UK-based experimental vocalist, musician, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes, formally trained in opera and jazz in her youth, creates brooding atmospherics and unsettling poetics underpinned by subterranean drone. Her fifth full-length album, ‘A Requiem’ on London imprint, One Little Independent, collects ten haunting incantations of dreams and nightmares, of death and grief, as well as power and autonomy. Carnal, transcendent cello drones are used to exorcise generational traumas in an evocative and macabre piece of gothic experimentalism.