Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes has shared the video for second single from her forthcoming record A Requiem, and as with the video for lead-off single Sleep, it's dark and unsettling viewing.
“It started with an idea of sitting completely still while a dancer spirit gracefully but chaotically moves all around me,” says Trappes. “All of the elements of my album are in this video. Mourning of the growing distance between family, homeland, mortality awareness, and the inevitability of death. It's about waking from a long spell - finding inner strength for the quest for empathy and love. Patterns of the past, present and future all evolving at once into new forms of synchronicity.”
Posting on Instagram she adds, “Platinum - the chemical symbol is “Pt”… it’s pliable but not brittle; a silver and precious transition metal - one of the rarer elements in the earth.
“Platinum is about finding inner strength to fight in immensely hard times. To call on our ancestors when going up against the impossible. The need to trust the stars and the moon and the transitions within our lives, when everything feels like a battleground.
“I wrote this in Scotland. Slow. Alone.”
Watch the video below:
A Requiem, set for release on April 4 via One Little Independent Records, is described as a musical service in honour of the dead, featuring “incantations of dreams and nightmares, of death and grief, as well as power and autonomy.”
“I was looking for an equilibrium between a ‘heaven' and a ‘hell” says Trappes, “screaming out to the wisdom of our foremothers - surfacing and leading me into true strength and beauty. I listened to the sorrow closely. Death is a part of our reality. Inevitable. Omnipresent. But nightmares can be beautiful.”
