TRZTN and Karen O Lance Lawrence/K to the O Paris-based musician, composer, and producer TRZTN (Tristan Bechet) once worked with Yeah Yeah Yeahs Karen O on the soundtrack to the cute and stylish
Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack. It s safe to say the wold has gotten a little darker in the decade since that 209 release and, so too, has TRZTN s music. Today he and Karen O reunite on Hieroglyphs, a warped and murky song lifted from his forthcoming album,
Royal Dagger Ballet. Like much of
Royal Dagger Ballet, Hieroglyphs has a dream-like quality to it with synths and industrial drums clattering off of one another to create something both dissonant yet cinematic. O s vocals, often so urgent when fronting her explosive band, float delicately above the electronic sound design before being digitally manipulated into something more supernatural and bizarre.
TRZTN has shared a new song from his forthcoming album
Royal Dagger Ballet. The track, âHieroglyphs,â features Karen O and arrives with a visual directed by Barnaby Roper and starring dancer Victoria Dauberville. Watch the âHieroglyphsâ video below (via
TRZTN is the moniker of Paris-based musician, composer, and producer Tristan Bechet. Back in 2009, Bechet and Karen O worked together on the
Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. Discussing his new collaboration with Karen O, Bechet said in a press release:
Without holding back, I embarked on a phantasmagorical way of productionâsculpting sound more than composing conventionally. I recorded clangs and digital white noise. I re-shaped her voice, deformed the structure, and resampled her own vocals creating the main staccato vocal theme. The track disintegrates and falls back together like the push and pull of a rubber band stretching.