Tom Penaguin - Beginnings (2025)

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Title: Beginnings
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: áMARXE – 0225CD
Genre: Prog Rock, Jazz-Rock, Krautrock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 68:06
Total Size: 444 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Long Piece No1 (12:21)
02. Ominous Bathtub in April (7:55)
03. Two and a Half (3:31)
04. The Tap Dancing Millipede Grew Tired (4:32)
05. Several Clocks (7:29)
06. Hamburg's Heaviest Pebble (15:48)
07. Long Piece No1, Five Years Later (16:33)

This is not a "brand new" album; all the songs featured here were written and recorded between 2012 and 2020. The old ones were poorly recorded/mixed because I was still a teenager trying to learn how things work. There is no real planned continuity in here and everything was left as is, with just a bit of mastering to even things out.
So, what's the point then?

Each of those tracks were, at their time, the best thing I could come up with; the opening tracks of albums that never were, like little seeds waiting to be watered into a full-fledged LP. These pieces were (and still are) important to me, but they are too far away for me to do something new with it, so it's a kind of "now or never" situation. The sound quality makes it sound way older than it is, so please take it as an involuntary bootleg-ish archival album of moods and experiments I went through while growing up, hence the name: Beginnings. - Tom Penaguin