Sounds | Author & Punisher - Titanis
- John Van de Mergel
- 28 aug
- 2 minuten om te lezen
Zeven jaar geleden kwam ik voor het eerst in contact met de hersenpinsels van werktuigbouwkundige Tristan Shone. De man maakt industrial noise/doom/drone muziek en gebruikt hiervoor in de eerste plaats zelfgemaakte 'precisie instrumenten', oftewel 'drone machines'. Ook op zijn ondertussen achtste album werkt hij samen met enkele gastmuzikanten waaronder drummer Rio Abror en Tesla Manaf (gitaar, trompet en elektronica) van de Indonesische band Kuntari. Voor het eerst echter ook met een vast 'bandlid' in gitarist Douglas Sabolick (Ecstatic Vision, Plaque Marks, A Life Once Lost, etc.).
Naast zijn gekend sound laat Shone in zijn eerste single Titanis heel wat tribal invloeden doorsijpelen. Wat een schril contrast lijkt, vloeit echter mooi samen.
Nocturnal Birding verschijnt op 3 oktober 2025 via Relapse Records.
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After celebrating 20 years since the inception of AUTHOR & PUNISHER in 2024, founding composer, vocalist and mechanical engineer Tristan Shone embraces the project’s broadest scope to-date with Nocturnal Birding.
Tristan Shone comments on the new album: "When I sat down to start writing this album, I knew I wanted to make songs based on birdsong. The actual first guitar riff is one of the meadowlark’s songs. When you listen to ‘Rook,’ that melody is the rook’s sound. That track is us mimicking one of the rooks' many songs. I wrote all my tracks around the rhythms and melodies of birds I researched or heard in the wild.”
The official video for Nocturnal Birding’s lead single “Titanis” was filmed this past Summer in Bali, Indonesia live with Kuntari who performed on the studio recording of “Titanis”. Directed by Manda Selena and Ican Harem.
Kuntari comment on the creation of the “Titanis” video: "its hard to imagine the organic local sequence from us blend with monstrous industrial sound from Tristan. After many hours of discussion we instantly clicked and agreed where the song ended up. The results are beyond our imagination, Tristan easily fluids into fresh territory and we don't have a border to break to. By far this is one of the most awe inspiring experience for us, not to mention our video production which is insanely epic and hilarious at the same time. The most memorable moment is we share a good laugh along the process"
