Tetema - Necroscape

Necroscape is the second collaborative studio album by experimental rock project Tetema (Mike Patton and Anthony Pateras), released in April 2020 via Ipecac Recordings.

Necroscape is the second album from Mike Patton and Anthony Pateras' modernist electro- acoustic rock proposition tētēma.

Joined by violinist Erkki Veltheim and drummer Will Guthrie in quartet formation, this record continues to employ the wayward orchestrations and arresting physicality of their 2014 debut Geocidal, yet is renewed by a melodic language which grounds it's multi-coloured twists and turns in hallucinatory lyricism.

This album was five years in the making and Necroscape mushroomed organically from Pateras' production based on tape loops, analogue synthesis and rarefied keyboard instruments in combination with Patton's dense vocal arrangements, Veltheim's exploratory violins and Guthrie's unique percussive strategies.

The result is a handmade, kaleidoscopic tour-de-force which re- imagines songwriting as something else.

The album cover artwork features beautiful leather sculptures by Talitha Kennedy, tiled lyric sheet and limited edition white coloured vinyl.

tētēma invites you to listen.

This album is a limited edition of 2,000 copies on white coloured vinyl housed in an embossed gatefold sleeve, pressed in US via Ipecac Recordings.