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French artist Tryphème debuts on Impatience with “Odd Balade”, a darkly-hued collection of songs drawn from human delicacy and dreamworld mythology.  

“Odd Balade” is Tryphème’s most ambitious and boldest record to date - both lyrically and musically. The album’s thirteen tracks resist rigid genre boundaries and flutter from medieval folk realms, sprawling synths, gothic 80s wave, leftfield pop, haunted vocals, mutant electronica to reverbed guitars - all reflected through her own shadowy prism. Especially album closer “A Walk In The Vercors” evokes a soothing serenity that echoes the sonic balm of Julee Cruise.  

Tryphème’s musical repertoire trends heavily electronic and somewhat abstracted, but on “Odd Balade”, the artist slips into the role of the modern troubadour with a shift to a more poetically and personal songwriting that is infused with symbolism and dreamlike fantasies. The connective tissue of the album is the audacity to love and the vulnerability that ensues. As intimate and introspective as the lyrics are, the themes remain universal and human to the core: the fear of losing a loved one, the melancholia of leaving places and the cycles of life. 

The record was largely composed in Chars, stirred by the French village’s eerie atmosphere and frequent trips to the seaside in Brittany, where Tryphème resides. Drawing inspiration from the rugged terrain of the seaside landscapes, the writings of Allen Ginsberg and Mark Fisher and the hyperrealist art of Scott Prior, Tryphème uses her songs to depict life with broad strokes of rhythm.  

On “Odd Balade” Tiphaine Belin consolidates herself as a gifted, nimble songwriter, masterly producer and subtly powerful vocalist. The record combines her skill for crafting lush, alien sound worlds and efficient, alluring arrangements with stealthily devastating songs. Her voice becomes a key ingredient, appearing on eleven of Odd Balade’s thirteen tracks, by turns heavily manipulated, sampled and replayed as a form of percussion, or basically bare.

“Odd Balade” is the manifestation of Tryphème’s roving artistic practice, a ceremonial-grade sacrament cast in a rich nocturnal glow. Pairing the mundane with the mythic, the album stays true to its core: odd and strangely familiar. 

RIYL - Riding off into the sunset to an unknown destination, hauntology, the present, tales told by the fireside, hot summer rain, adventures, to feel a warm presence when you are walking in the forest or in the mountains, coastal landscapes, sailor’s stories, slow motion, vitesse, heavy blossoms, colors, the warmth of the sun, the tenderness of the moon, getting lost in unfamiliar streets, city lights, motorway rest areas by night, magic numbers, rendez-vous, picnics, serendipity, poetry, the smell of old records and old books.

Odd Balade

Tryphème - Odd Balade - Previews

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IMPTNC10 - Madronas - "Erogenous Biome"
IMPTNC09 - Tryphème - "Odd Balade"
IMPTNC08 - Amkarahoi - "Uncle Reed In The Purple Mind"
IMPTNC07 - Nuke Watch - "Pepper's Ghost"
IMPTNC06 - Healing Force Project - "Melts In Your Mind"
IMPTNC05 - Memotone - "How Was Your Life?"
IMPTNC04 - Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova - "Leaving Memory"
IMPTNC03 - Hoshina Anniversary - "Hisyochi" 
IMPTNC02 - Tarotplane - "Light Self All Others"
IMPTNC01 - A.R. Wilson - "Old Gold"

PTNC009 - Nuke Watch - "Wait For It..."
PTNC008 - Misha Sultan - "Translucence"
PTNC007 - Hoshina Anniversary - "Hyakunin Isshu"
PTNC006 - Johanna Knutsson - "Dingsbums Homage"
PTNC005 - CV Vision - "Elemente"
PTNC004 - Promoter - "Cogitate"
PTNC003 - John Carroll Kirby - "Tuscany"
PTNC002 - Leo James - "Infinity"
PTNC001 - Ekolali - "Genom Grundet"

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