Torn Hawk

The alias of producer and visual artist Luke Wyatt, Torn Hawk’s music initially revolved around “video mulching” — Wyatt’s term for his design of video editing, which featured heavily processed collages that sampled sources which range from VHS tapes of ’80s teen and action films to pornography — when he found prominence in ’09 2009, but he incorporated more original elements over time. Professing a like of pop tradition and movie theater (his step-mother possessed an independent cinema in Charlotte, Virginia when he was developing up), his visible and musical result carries a amount of sincerity aswell as immediacy. Wyatt’s music was initially subjected to a wider viewers along with his Tarifa EP through Ron Morelli’s L.We.E.S. white label series in 2012. That season, he was also commissioned by uncommon ’80s boogie reissue label Individuals Potential Unlimited to make a VHS promo compilation video of unseen ’80s party and music video footage on the discharge PPU Video Party, and created videos for famous brands Mock & Toof, I:Cube, Mi Ami, and Ex-Vivian. Wyatt liked a prolific 2013, with produces on labels such as for example No Discomfort in Pop, Psychological Response (under his Lossmaker guise), several 12″s on Morelli’s primary label, and his very own Valcrond Video. In 2014, he released his initial long-player (via download and a limited-edition cassette) known as Through Power of Will on Amanda Brown’s Not really Not really Fun, and he readied the white-label Quadrifolio for discharge later that season. That November, he came back along with his Mexican Summertime debut, Let’s Cry and Perform Pushups at exactly the same time, which highlighted a subtler strategy. Pursuing 12″s for Valcrond Video and L.We.E.S., Torn Hawk’s following full-length appeared in-may 2016. Motivated by his proceed to Berlin, aswell as 19th hundred years Romanticism as well as the paintings of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Caspar David Friedrich, Union and Come back moved additional from Wyatt’s collagist root base and only carefully orchestrated, psychologically direct compositions.