We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

A Tale Most Grim And Foul

by Karl Henningsson

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD  or more

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Limited to 66 - Blood Red/Smoke. Real-time duplicated on RTM911 aka Fox. Full color J-card.

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Tale Most Grim And Foul via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days

      $12 USD or more 

     

1.
Intro 01:57
2.
What Lurks in These Woods? 01:59
3.
A Simple Home 02:04
4.
Per Goes For a Walk 01:42
5.
First Encounter With The Seven-Eyed Goat 03:06
6.
Per's Mind Begins to Crumble 02:45
7.
Insanity 03:12
8.
Murder Behind The Stables 03:02
9.
Inger Meets The Goat With Seven Eyes 02:26
10.
Succumbing to Darkness 03:10
11.
Per Ends His Own Suffering 02:20
12.
Discovering Bodies 03:17
13.
Inger Disappears Into The Woods 02:21
14.
A Tale Most Grim And Foul 02:04

about

This album is a soundtrack to a mystery/horror movie that doesn’t exist (at least not outside my own head).

The movie is set in an unspecified but somewhat remote area with lots of deep forests. It could be Småland in Sweden, the Bavarian forest in Germany or maybe Washington, USA?

I picture the start of the movie to be quite beautiful and give off a happy vibe, with drone footage of a pretty village and the woods behind it, accompanied by folk music-esque sounds, then as the camera reaches the deeper, darker parts of the forest, things quickly get creepier.

After getting acquainted with the main characters Per and Inger and getting to know their simple home, Per goes for a walk in the forest where he meets a strange goat with seven eyes.

Shortly after, his mind begins to slowly crumble and he eventually goes mad.

One day while Per is out behind the stables to slaughter some chickens, a neighbour stops by for a visit and notices Per acting strange. Before he realizes how bad things are, Per takes the chicken axe to the neighbour and kills him.

Driven by madness, Per drags his wife into the woods to meet the seven-eyed goat and his mental state deteriorates even further, to the point where he takes his own life.

Eventually the police come looking for the missing neighbour and discovers his body behind the stables and Per’s body in the basement.

At this point, Inger’s mind had also began deteriorating and she takes off into the woods, and that’s how the movie ends.

What is this strange seven-eyed goat you ask? Is it a supernatural being dwelling in the woods, like Bob from Twin Peaks? Is it the devil himself? Or is it just a metaphor for the twisted things humans are capable of?

credits

released April 30, 2023

Composed, performed and recorded by Karl Henningsson in Klagshamn and Trosa, Sweden in 2021/2022 - Published by Tape Lore 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

TapeLore image

TapeLore Brooklyn, New York

contact / help

Contact TapeLore

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like A Tale Most Grim And Foul, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now