Trance Plantations - Behind Your Face (2024) [Hi-Res]

Trance Plantations is the latest brainchild of Nathan Daems and Falk Schrauwen (both members of Black Flower and Echoes of Zoo). They describe what they make as ‘fictional Tribe music (from space)’. That previously resulted in a self-titled debut album on which they collaborated with The Comet Is Coming members Danalogue and Betamax. "Behind your face" is their dazzling follow-up album continuing their musical space adventures."

The track 'Space Kitchen' pokes fun at the biggest embarrassment in modern science: the undeniable existence of subjective experience and consciousness. On the other hand this track is a voyage, a dream, an altered state of consciousness, demonstrating that simply experiencing reality, particularly through music, can be an intense ride on its own.

An interplay of futuristic jazz drums & effects, vocals pitched-down to basement level and a Turkish ney flute echoing the spirit of Alan Lomax’s prison blues recordings… this is not a microdose anymore…

'Qualia' is about moments of subjective, conscious experience, the qualitative howness of any mental/physical state. Like the redness of red or the feeling of groove in a rhythm that one perceives. A chopped up groove, slowly unrolling as if walking into a dreamy world of Eric Satie inspired flutes and electronics.

This track celebrates the awesome ability of sensing, music in particular. Surprising musical elements focus our attention to the very moment in which we listen. But the repetitive elements make us travel into sequences of mental imagery and emotional landscapes.