Tan Cologne
Unknown Beyond
OUT JUNE 20
Labrador Records
CONTACT:
ROSIE BOYD // PUBLICIST
LYDIA KRUMPER // PUBLICIST
Tan Cologne released their debut album Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico in 2020, exploring the topography of cultures and subcultures on the surface of New Mexico. Inspired by past, present and future water and waterways, their second album Earth Visions of Water Spaces followed in September 2022, embodying the power of water and how it has shaped our planet. Meanwhile, their 2023 release Pescetrullo (soundscapes) captured a series of on-site instrumental and field recordings made in the remote architectural installation Pescetrullo in Puglia, immortalizing the contrasts of ancient buildings, new bold structures, insects, and lapping water of the surrounding environment.
Uncoiling from the depths of perspectives shifting through deep life changes and loss, however, Unknown Beyond seeks a more spiritual process. It’s a cerebral record that echoes and shimmers with realms of the unseen, borderlands, and supernatural connection. “We looked for signs and signals during the recording process” they say. “If we saw a shooting star, imagined a fire burning on a hill, or remembered an old satellite dish in someone’s yard, we explored that lyrically. Those visual guides became our pathways to the album. They were the signs to move forward.”
Written, performed and recorded alone at the duo’s home in Taos, Northern New Mexico, the album found Tan Cologne seeking solitude and retreat as they came to terms with personal loss of family, friends and childhood homes all within the same timeline. It became a therapeutic outlet for grieving, dealing, changing and understanding new horizons of life and ways of being, each track a part of the story of the album.
Interweaving and layering hypnotic beats, hazy textures, abstract live drums, and sounds of searching for signals of comfort and communication from the invisible web, on their third full-length Tan Cologne present an immersive and emotive album. An intimate and generous-spirited record of coping, surrender and acceptance.