Originally published on January 29, 2021 9:41 am
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
Muzz are dear, old friends who make fuzzy, thoughtful songs. So when they gathered at Reade s Old Kingston Theater in New York s Hudson Valley after seven months of separation, minus hugs and wearing masks, I trust it was joyful but also kind of awkward.
Paul Banks and Josh Kaufman have known each other since childhood. You likely know Paul Banks as the singer for Interpol; Josh Kaufman is a producer and one-third of Bonny Light Horseman. They are both friends with drummer Matt Barrick, who played a Tiny Desk concert in 2012 with his band The Walkmen.
Kill Your Idols, and heralded for their bombastic live shows.
He later created the electronic rock duo
SERVICES, a rhythmic noise/New Wave/synth-punk outfit that released
Your Desire is My Business and several singles on
A Touch of Class Records. After many tours and festivals, including Primavera Sound and All Tomorrows Parties, the band members parted ways.
Bechet also composes and produces for top fashion and luxury brands, including working on fashion films and branding campaigns for Nike, Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Chanel, and Givenchy) and his output has been featured in publications like Nowness, Models, and New York Times.
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.