Tank full of Oil: Pt/Tearpalm

Pt/Tearpalm

Pt/Tearpalm is a collaboration between Željko Ljubić Pt, Serbian guitar player known for his work with a number of indie bands, most notably Goribor, of which he is a founder member, and which gained significant fame on ex-Yugoslavian spaces, and experimental electronic outfit Tearpalm, occult-driven postindustrial music project with a psychedelic bent.

Started as a collab between friends who for a long time wanted to do some music together, initially untitled project resulted in a debut album, released (as most of Tearpalm and Goribor music so far) with pioneer Croatian indie label-turned-DIY-promotion vehicle of it’s sole member and owner, Zdenko Franjić (responsible from some of the edgier punk and garage rock records of the 80’s in Yugoslavia, some of them by still influential musicians like Majke, Messerschmitt, The Spoons or late and infamous Satan Panonski). CD was recorded in a single session at Pt’s home, and mixed, mastered and produced at home by MMM of Tearpalm, who also designed a cover for the release. Despite having a disclaimer “MUSIC ON THIS CD MIGHT NOT MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS” – point being that music was to reflect both musicians’ voluntary drift from their previous projects, album received mixed reviews, mostly due to its violent dissimilarity to both Goribor and Tearpalm.

Somewhere during spring of 2014. duo decided on making a new album, this time moving away not only from their earlier work within respective bands, but also from the previous album’s jazzy krautrock feel, moving more towards their own exploration of ‘avant-garage’ (term coined by mutual favorite Pere Ubu to describe their own early work) and contemporary psychedelia.
Since joining 93.93, project released two promotional videos for songs from their forthcoming album, to be released with us most probably by the end of Summer. One of the songs is a cover of Legendary Pink Dots‘ Needles (Version Sirius), adapted to Serbian and accompanied by a piece of video dubbed Afore the Trip, tying mass suicide thematic of the original to overwhelming austerity of modern everyday life in Serbia. All videos can be found at official 93.93 Publishing YouTube channel.