Music Albums. Leopard Yawns.
Musical Works Overview
https://dagmargertot.bandcamp.com/
Artist's musical language unfolds through a palette of instruments — accordion, piano, gusli, lyre, batalo, string-bowed ikili, horns, and an array of auxiliary percussions. This combination of traditional, archaic, and experimental timbres forms the basis for her vocal-instrumental improvisations, where the voice remains the gravitational center. Her practice merges ritualistic intensity, surreal poetics, and raw improvisation, often blurring the line between music, performance, and dreamlike narration.
The following albums and compositions outline this evolving trajectory:
The Leopard Yawns
https://dagmargertot.bandcamp.com/album/leopard-yawns
This cycle of five pieces explores the theme of Eros inhabiting the body. Inspired by the Early Christian metaphor of the well-fed panther, the music depicts the aftermath of a hunt: the panther slumbers, exhaling fragrance that entrances all creatures. Drawn into the aura of her breath, they become entranced victims for the prophet who awakens. Here, sensuality, lethargy, and predation merge into one soundscape — a meditation on erotic power as both nourishment and danger.
Os Lacrimale
https://dagmargertot.bandcamp.com/album/os-lacrimale
A dark surreal opus rooted in the experience of dreaming, “Os Lacrimale” treats dreams as essential working material. Through instrumental-vocal improvisations, the music externalizes inner states, giving form to ambiguous, shifting images. The album moves between ceremonial structures and elements of “Art Brut,” yet ultimately it manifests as a free expression of the psyche’s painful aspects.
Text functions play a key role: compositions unfold in glossolalia with fragments of semantically active roots. Some tracks are accompanied by ritual-surreal short novellas, extending the semantic field and reinforcing the work’s identity.
Path of Blood
https://dagmargertot.bandcamp.com/album/path-of-blood
“Path of Blood” marks a pivotal moment — a narrative of unequivocal trauma and inner turmoil, reflecting both the darkest and most transformative period of the artist’s life. The protagonist traverses a landscape of mental and physical suffering, finding solace in bloodline as the final gesture of redemption.A deeply dramatic vocal-instrumental improvisation, the work emerged in collaboration with filmmaker Juana, during her project on Joan the Mad. Conceived in dialogue with moving image, it carries the density of cinematic atmosphere. The cover features a photograph of Gertot’s grandmother, binding generational memory to the work’s theme of survival.
Instruments used: accordion, string-bowed ikili, lyre, gusli, batalo, piano, horns, additional percussion.
Lion Cubs
https://dagmargertot.bandcamp.com/track/lion-cubs
A single-track composition emerging from dream imagery. Two lion cubs play on black earth destined to become a cemetery. The young morning sun splits its base to join their game, tearing into the soil.
Lyrics:
Lion cubs play on the black earth, the sun illuminates their golden heads.
Two suns initiate a field, a field that all bodies should take,
which other cemeteries do not contain.This work merges innocence with mortality, play with prophecy, grounding the dreamscape in a ritualistic poetics of earth and light.
