Penelope Trappes: Heaven Up Here

bySharon O'Connell
May 11, 2023

Australian producer and ethereal soundscaper Penelope Trappes returns with the haunting ‘Heavenly Spheres’. Using just her voice, an upright piano and an old reel-to-reel, it’s a remarkable record steeped in phantasmal atmospherics and hypnagogic strangeness

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