Tannhauser Gate

by Darqo

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	1.	Nemo's War (Creeptown mix) 07:56
	2.	The Hauer Principle 08:03	info

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During a forced pandemic break between recording sessions for our upcoming second album, we made this EP at and from home to keep you, and ourselves, entertained!

Recording & Mixing by Creeptown
Mastering by CCR recording & Mastering
Artwork by Surrounded By Giants

2020. A global pandemic shuts down the entire world. 4 friends from Lichtervelde (BE) who call themselves Darqo are forced to stop rehearsing and to stop recording new music at their studio. A couple of months pass by and the idea grew to experiment with home recording. Unable to record bass or drums at home, they had to improvise. Bjørn made some noisy drone sample at home and sends these to Thomas. Not being able to record actual bass, Thomas decides to try his luck with a Moog bass synth plugin and succeeds to record a wobbly low bass track. They agreed they would send the track to 1 person each time without the previous person knowing what they recorded. So the track went to Tjalle, who provided some foley sounds and an acoustic guitar riff. Then the track went to Jelle who plays the drums in Darqo. However, instead of a drumbeat, Jelle makes a dreamy guitar track with the help of his Ebow. Still, nobody knows how the song will end up sounding. Finally, Cisn gets the track and he adds some more low end and some distorted guitar and mixes everything together. "The Hauer Principle" is born.

While still being in lockdown they also started reworking a song that was only released last year on Polderriffs - Volume I in support of the postponed Alcatraz Metalfest show and called it "Nemo's War (Creeptown Mix)".

Tannhauser Gate doesn’t sound like anything they released before. Exploring the range of what they are capable of they made this droney, ambient, noise EP. NightsInTheScullery was a heavy sludge forward album and now they made this more atmospheric and dreamy EP. Constantly evolving their sound so they wouldn't sound the same twice.

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released May 7, 2021

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Darqo Belgium

Darqo is a noise - doom - sludge monster from the West Flemish underbelly. Featuring members of MIAVA and Mindstab (RIP) they will send you on a path where catchy tunes and poppy beats do not exist. Darqo is ruff, spontaneous and organic…Dire, haunting music for a lost society. ... more

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