AIXOPLUC by ROSCO CHAPEL
After Truus and I had prepared some of the song structures on May 27, 2025 in Belmonte de San José, where Truus did a two week residency at Filou, Rosco Chapel gathered at Mas l'Aixopluc to record their new album AIXOPLUC. From 1 to 3 June the album organically grew from Truus, Kathy and I getting together with some texts – more poems than lyrics – that I had written over the last year or so, and a bunch of sounds I had recorded in the same timeframe. AIXOPLUC means ‘shelter, haven’ in Catalan, and it’s the name of the finca where my wife and I live, where we welcome human and non-human animals and extraterrestrials alike to share and enjoy this place with us, to feel at ease and be creative here. In three days time, seven new songs emerged, evolved, got recorded.
Tracklist
| 1. | Ship Song | 3:05 |
| 2. | WBWH | 3:34 |
| 3. | AIXOPLUC (Conviure) | 3:42 |
| 4. | Feathered Deities | 3:43 |
| 5. | Rur(e)alisme | 4:30 |
| 6. | To Die Is To Fly | 5:28 |
| 7. | Telluric (Alien Edit) | 5:05 |
Credits
Rosco Chapel are:
Roland Groenenboom: vocals, guitar, percussion, field recordings, feadóg
Truus de Groot: vocals, programming, keys, percussion
Kathy Ziegler: vocals, guitar, keys, percussion
All sound & lyrics © & ℗ Rosco Chapel, inspired by (wild)life at Mas l’Aixopluc and Les Terres de l’Ebre. Made with Real Intelligence (RI). No animals — human or non-human — or extraterrestrials were hurt in the making of this album.
Recorded June 1-3, 2025 at Mas l’Aixopluc, Ribera d’Ebre (Catalonia, Spain). Additional recording at Filou, Belmonte de San José (Teruel, Spain), and Escondido (California, USA). Calanda drummers and brass section of ‘To Die Is To Fly’ recorded during the Easter processions on Good Friday 2025, Calanda (Aragón, Spain).
Produced, engineered and mixed by Truus de Groot.
Mastered by Barney Broomer at Sonic One Mastering (soniconemastering.com).
Cover/logo design: Josep Sendra (josepsendra.com). Rosco Chapel band wear by FATO Rural Outfit (fato.cat).
Thanks to:
Esther Boender; Ainhoa González Graupera; Josep Sendra; the drummers and brass section of Calanda.
License
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Rosco Chapel are a trinity composed of a female and a male Aquarius and a Virgo female. They produce down to earth, yet angelic sounding lo-fi noise in an organic way. They are more about cactuses than roses, more like olive trees than cypresses. They like open roads, not closed gates. Their music is filmic like a Western movie in cinemascope format, but poetically realistic at the same time.