Osni the Flare by Tristan Allen

March 25, 2026

Osni the Flare by Tristan Allen

Tristan Allen is one of those characters you just cannot miss – a producer, musician, composer, and… a puppeteer that assembles albums in one original entity that you cannot mistake for anything and anyone else’s.

His new album is the second part in the trilogy – a mythical trilogy of albums where he delves different themes of transformation and spiritual inner work.

On a philosophical level – it is both interesting and surprising in a positive way to see someone putting so much actual work into developing some compositional strategies and utilising them towards something that has so many different details, tonal and atonal aspects and heightened sense of beauty, expressing shadow work and creating something so dense, emotional and at the same time of some fantastical scale.

Ten tracks of some unique classical character but built by someone who likes to experiment with form, function, ambience and melodies coming both from instruments and vocals.

It is a dream-like sphere, a multi-layered world of different feelings and nuances, something you might take up on being a soundtrack – but through its character you can see and hear that is much more than that. It’s a novel with poetic façades and tapestries of emotional nuances. A beautiful and timeless work – a strange occurrence in today’s musical world. Thanks for that!!!

In Osni the Flare, the second chapter of Tristan Allen's mythic trilogy, the composer, producer, and puppeteer follows a mortal’s transformation into deity through the discovery of fire. Recorded over four years using wordless vocals, organs, ocarinas, an arsenal of toy instruments, and intricate sound design, Osni the Flare unfolds the origins of flame and temporality across four acts. Weaving a creation myth that shifts between beauty, shadow, and wistful embers, Allen provides a portal to meticulously crafted, emotionally potent sound and story that echo through a fantastical realm.

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releases March 27, 2026

Composed and performed by Tristan Allen

piano, electric bass, upright bass, harmonium, pump organ, toy piano, toy string things, music boxes, bells, mallets, flutes, ocarinas, sk-1, pulsar-23, tape, field recordings, and puppet sounds