STARCARR

from WHITESTARR by GRUPPEN

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    White Starr is the debut album from Gruppen. The 6 tracks take the listener through an aural landscape of past, present and the possible. Through the spoken word poetry and post-rock soundscapes you will find reflections on the earliest known settlement Star Carr and travel across the Mesolithic landscape of Doggerland. Elsewhere there are contemplations on painting, selling out and the plight of an existence underground.

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STARCARR

I
QUARRIED_FAR_AFIELD
IN_FLIGHT_THROUGH_AIR_TO_RESTING
THE_GRITSTONE’S_JOURNEY

THE_MONOLITH_STANDS
BROUGHT_BY_MESOLITHIC
FORCES_AS_SEEN_ONLY_BY_THE_CHOSEN

STRIATIONS_FROM_THE_FLOOD
CARVED_GLACIAL_LINES
FINGER_HOLES

SET_IN_POSITION
PERFECT_PERPENDICULAR
DEEP_INTO_THE_PIT

THE_ROCK_IS_ROOTED
DESCENDING_AS_FAR_BELOW
UNDERGROUND_LIGHTHOUSE

STRAIGHT_BEAMS_PROJECTED
CURRENTS_UNDERGROUND
PURE_WATER_RESIDES

A_RUDSTON_GATHERING
AROUND_THE_OUTER_STONE
BEFORE_MY_CIST

II
REMOTE_VIEWING_TO
FLIXTON_NOW_AND_IN_THE_PAST
TO_STAR_CARR_LAKE

ALTHOUGH_THAT’S_THE_PLAN
IT_IS_NOT_PLAIN_SAILING
START_PREPARATIONS

WITH_NO_LOOKING_GLASS
OR_OBSIDIAN_MIRROR
NO_PSYCHOTROPICS

ONLY_STILL_THE MIND
BREATHING_AS_A_CRUDE_SEXTANT
TRAVEL_ETHER_LIGHT

OPEN_TO_OPEN
UNVEILING_TO_UNVEILING
THE_FIELD_APPEARS

LUSH_GREEN_MEADOWLAND
BOUNDED_BY_A_TRACK
AND_A_ROW_OF_TREES

STEEL_TAR-PITTED_ROADS
DIPPING_WILLOW_BRANCHES
WILD_FLOWERING_HERBS

THE_ROOTS_OF_THESE_PLANTS
TENDRILS_GRASPING_OUT_AND_DOWN
STRETCHING_INTO_TIME

THROUGH_STRATIGRAPHY
OF_WORLDS_SIMULTANEOUS
ALL_DIMENSIONS_NOW

EAST_YORKSHIRE_DEEPENS
AND_EAST_RIDING_FALLS_AWAY
BEFORE_THE_NATION

TOPOS_OF_DESCENT
INTO_THE_PRESERVING_PEAT
DIVINING_THOUGHT-FORMS

NO_BRUSH_OR_TROWEL
STRIKING_MESOLITHIC_GOLD
OF_NON-METAL_KIND

THE_FINDS_OF_TWO_TYPES
FIRSTLY_TIMBER_SPLIT_AND_PLANKED
ROUNDWOOD_BIRCH_ASH_AND_WILLOW

MYSTERIOUSLY
A_HORDE_OF_FAUNAL_REMAINS
RED_ROE_DEER_AND_ELK

DEFLESH_STRIP_AND_NOTCH
SOME_RITUAL_OVERTURE
SACRED_SLAUGHTERHOUSE

III
OF_SHAMAN_AND_SHAMANKA
WITH_ANTLER_FRONTLETS
OF_STAG_AND_ROE


FROM_THE_LAKE
CRANIAL_AND_ANTLER
LIMBED_ELEMENTS

PART_OF_THE_BEAM
CROWN_OF_A_ROE_DEER
FRAGMENTS_OF_ELK

CERVID_AND_ELK
HUNTED_IN_THESE_GRASSLANDS
OF_DOGGERLAND

THE_HOUND_COMPLETE
ROYAL_BEAST
DEAD_TO_THIS_VERSE

LOWERED_COMPLETE
CARCASS_DESCENDING
INTO_THE_WETLANDS

DELIBERATE_DEPOSITIONS
OF_FAUN_AND_THE_DOG
IN_ARTICULATED_STATE

DEMINERALISED
COMPRESSED
WARPED_AND_SPLIT

AS_CRYPTID_CHANGELING
SHAPE_SHIFTERS_ACROSS_OUR_TIME
INTER_BEING_BE

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from WHITESTARR, released February 17, 2024
BRENNAN_BRANNAGAN

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GRUPPEN London, UK

Gruppen are a dark dada duo who combine field recordings, electronica, scapes, tones and poetry. As much visual as sonic. Think Schwitters meets Cabaret Voltaire via Pound and Poe.

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