Tan Cologne

New Mexico-based duo Tan Cologne share new single & video "Infinity" taken from their new album 'Unknown Beyond' on Labrador Records. European dates with Trentemøller in May.

Tan Cologne, the enigmatic New Mexico-based duo of Lauren Green and Marissa Macias, are set to release their third studio album ‘Unknown Beyond’ on June 20th via Labrador Records. 

The pair share new single & video "Infinity".

The band will also be playing across Europe this May supporting Trentemøller, as well as an artist residency in Marfa, Texas – dates below.

On the new single. Tan Cologne said 

"'Infinity' is about an endless drift into the infinite. The lyrics “All pass through known” evoking comfort of knowing we all enter and leave, though the definitive dimension is the unknown beyond. We understand the passage through physical form, and take into account the infinite depth outside of our comprehension."

"Our music video circles a day or dissolving timeline of a man on a walk and how he finds himself in a meditative drift with a horse, and then returns to the beginning and also the end. Filmed in Taos, New Mexico by Tan Cologne with friend Ricardo de Jesus Tejeda and horse, Lupita."

Tan Cologne released their debut album ‘Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico’ in 2020, exploring the topography of cultures and subcultures on the surface of New Mexico. Inspired by past, present and future water and waterways, their second album, ‘Earth Visions of Water Spaces’ followed in September 2022, embodying the power of water and how it has shaped our planet.

Meanwhile, their 2023 release “Pescetrullo (soundscapes)” captured a series of on-site instrumental and field recordings made in the remote architectural installation Pescetrullo in Puglia, immortalizing the contrasts of ancient buildings, new bold structures, insects, and lapping water of the surrounding environment.

Uncoiling from the depths of perspectives shifting through deep life changes and loss, however, ‘Unknown Beyond’, seeks a more spiritual process. It’s a cerebral record that echoes and shimmers with realms of the unseen, borderlands, and supernatural connection.

“We looked for signs and signals during the recording process. If we saw a shooting star, imagined a fire burning on a hill, or remembered an old satellite dish in someone’s yard, we explored that lyrically. Those visual guides became our pathways to the album. They were the signs to move forward.”

they say.

Written, performed and recorded alone at the duo’s home in in Taos, Northern New Mexico, the album found Tan Cologne seeking solitude and retreat as they came to terms with personal loss of family, friends and childhood homes all within the same timeline. It became a therapeutic outlet for grieving, dealing, changing and understanding new horizons of life and ways of being, each track a part of the story of the album.

Interweaving and layering hypnotic beats, hazy textures, abstract live drums, and sounds of searching for signals of comfort and communication from the invisible web, on their third full-length Tan Cologne present an immersive and emotive album. An intimate and generous-spirited record of coping, surrender and acceptance.

Where Tan Cologne’s previous work was rooted in terrestrial and earthen landscapes, ‘Unknown Beyond’ reaches instead for the skies and the intangible - greater existence, the infinite and the unexplainable. It’s an album that embraces the beauty of timeless uncertainty.

‘Unknown Beyond’ will be released on June 20th 

via Labrador records.

Pre-order here.

Tan Cologne live dates

May 17 – Patronaat Haarlem, Haarlem, Netherlands w/ Trentemøller

May 18 – Le Cargö, Caen, France w/ Trentemøller

May 19 – L’Aéronef, Lille, France w/ Trentemøller

May 20 – Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands w/ Trentemøller

May 21 – De Roma, Antwerp, Belgium w/ Trentemøller

May 23 - Tan Cologne at Milena Silvano Studio “Inner Space Together” (RSVP special performance) London, England 

June 20 – Do Right Hall at Wrong, Marfa, TX, USA

July 26 – Solar Center, Taos, NM, USA w/ Gold Celeste, Vinyl Williams

September 11 - Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM w/ Diatom Deli, Luke Schneider