Penelope Trappes shares new track, "The Mercy of The Hagetisse"

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The accompanying material includes seven previously unreleased compositions, drawn from the prolific and emotionally raw recordings that birthed A Requiem. New single, "The Mercy of the Hagetisse" invokes sacred pagan energies through a solitary drum.

“Agnes Haus and I tapped into the lyrics about the Hagetisse, aka hag, or witch. She takes mercy on a lost soul in the form of a symbolic mercy killing by summoning the spirits from beyond, leading them to an ego death,” Penelope Trappes explains.

Æternum (Latin for “eternal”) evokes the record’s enduring thematic gravity and conceptual link to grief, healing, and the passage of time. “I wrote about 35 pieces in the sessions for A Requiem,” Trappes explains, “some as minimal studies, some as mood trials, and some as full songs that just didn’t seem to completely fit on the album. I love all these songs so much, but I think they are of a time and a place that maybe I don’t want to linger in too long for future releases, hence letting them out in the world loosely forever tied to ‘A Requiem’.”

Written during an isolated period in the Scottish Highlands, Trappes composed these pieces across meditative, candle-lit sessions. Amidst deep introspection and a desire to cleanse long-buried trauma, she found herself drawn instinctively to the cello, despite no formal training. “The nerve-like strings of the cello became external chords of my vocal folds,” she reflects. “I scratched on them, leaned into them, and conjured all of the textures I could muster.”

Tracklist:

Disc 1