Whitestarr

A Post-Concept Ritual Digital Artefact by Gruppen (2025)

 

WhiteStarr is the debut longform audio artefact from Gruppen, the post-band collaboration between Tim Brennan and Dean Brannagan.

The album operates as a post-concept ritual terrain—composed of six sonic documents delivered in a ritual sequence, but fractured from within.

Three tracks—STARCARR, WINTERREISE, and WHITESTARR—emerge from The Great Antler Ley (RDA, 2026), and form the spine of the fieldwork.
The other three—SELBSTMORD, SUBTERRANEA, and WEARENOTDEAD—act as puncture, echo, resistance. They puncture the frame, disrupt narrative, and hold the terrain open.

Gruppen calls this: post-concept.
Not an album. A terrain.
A ritual in six scored utterances.

Whitestarr unfolds as a ritual terrain in six sonic documents. Each track is a site: excavated, inscribed, disturbed. The listener enters not a narrative, but a resonance—echoed in trace, refusal, and spectral return.

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✴️ / ❍ : Track Symbols

✴️ Tracks aligned with The Great Antler Ley (RDA, 2026) — ritual convergences, field echoes, Mesolithic transmissions.
❍ Tracks of disruption — puncture, refusal, skewed resonance.

Side One

1. ✴️ STARCARR – Ritual excavation / Mesolithic transmission.

2. ✴️ WINTERREISE – Tracing wintered bodies / exile and ice

Side Two

Below the word—below speech.
The terrain doesn't echo back.
Only the pressure speaks.

4. ❍ SUBTERRANEA – Below-speech / mining inscription

5. ❍ WEARENOTDEAD – Denial/ ghost-transmission

The ritual stammers.
Voice folds in on itself.
What was path becomes pit.
Memory becomes fall.

Rupture is also continuity.
What dies here, hums elsewhere.
The feedback loop is not closed.

3. ❍ SELBSTMORD – Self-erasure and tonal fall

✴️ WHITESTARR – Aura return / spectral convergence

 

 

This is not transcription.
This is tracework, pressure-script, inscribed terrain.
The poem does not tell. It returns.