Taking a cue from the rotisserie chicken area of the sketchy grocery store down the street from my house, TMT has recently decided to offer a “2 for the price of 1” news post special every once in a while, where instead of just announcing one album or one tour, we announce two instead! Twice as much news! Twice as much grey chicken! Today, we’re happy to fulfill that policy with two brand new releases from Belgium’s Aguirre Records. The first is Tarotplane’s First and the second is Brannten Schnüre’s Sommer Im Pfirschhain. Let’s talk about both of them!
The Tarotplane LP is appropriately titled because, yeah, it’s the debut release for Tarotplane (a solo project of Baltimore’s PJ Dorsey). It trades in traditional-leaning Kraut and psych over two side-length compositions. It swirls and it swirls and it traps you in its web. Peep a video for an extended version of the first track below, and grab the LP here.
Brannten Schnüre come in from the cold all dark and folky and hailing from Würzburg, Germany. They stitch together instrumental wandering with “Nico-esqye poetry tales,” all on a bed of accordion, guitar, and flute. Lots of looping, lots of dark midnight thinking, lots of tossing together fragments of sounds and songs into what has been described as a “surreal folkcollage.” Of course, this one’s buyable too, like Tarotplane’s LP and like that grey and suspect rotisserie chicken from the supermarket (better than the latter, though). Put the album in your stitched-up pocket here, and check out a video for “Vom Baum im Hof” below.
First tracklist:
01. Excursions 1 - Formless Projections Of Inner Light
02. Excursions 2 - Sacramental Circles & Liquid Dreams
Sommer Im Pfirschhain tracklist:
01. Vom Baum Im Hof
02. Schweiß
03. Urwald Auf Verkehrsinseln
04. Feldweg
05. Lichter Am Weiher
06. Auf Dem Hohen Meißner
07. Nachmittagsschwüle
08. Die Verwunschene Quelle
09. Mithra Im Jardin Botanique
10. Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
11. Der Seegeist
12. Pfirsche
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