10/24/2024

Looking Back at Tristan Allen’s Tin Iso and the Dawn

This week marks a year since the release of Brooklyn-based composer and puppeteer Tristan Allen’s grand journey Tin Iso and the Dawn.

Loosely based on Wagner’s three act opera Tristan and Isolde, and influenced by Tristan’s childhood living in Quebec and Japan, the record synthesizes their passions for puppetry and narrative under the spell of instrumental music. The result is a rich world, ripe with visual splendor and unexpected tonal possibilities.

The puppetry pieces and performances that accompany the album brings an even deeper purpose to this voyage, and as the first part in a trilogy, provides the origin story for a fable that Tristan has already begun to explore with Osni the Flare.