Kristina Warren – Tusk

released on cassette and digital March 20th, 2026

Tusk is an immersive audiovisual album from Kristina Warren that demonstrates the fierce range and beguiling beauty of the concertina, as well as its seamless blend into the analog realm.

On recent releases like Three Rivulets and the bandwidth to care, Warren has used analog synthesizers and/or digital signal processing to explore a range of textures in often very rhythmic compositions. On Tusk, the concertina, a small squeezebox instrument, drives the action. ​​Warren developed Tusk through numerous performance iterations in 2025 into a vividly textural set that explores the intimate, uncanny blending of the concertina’s tone and physicality into unpredictable resonances of analog sound.

Structured as a suite of four distinctive yet balanced pieces performed in continuous, through-composed format, Tusk keens across memory and interior landscape to activate an otherworldly yet instinctive resonance. The sound is somehow slow, building in its own time across occasional jagged peaks. Vistas of white-noise bellows sounds and rich resonance, feedback and difference tones, orient listeners in this unfamiliar terrain. Meanwhile the visuals draw inspiration from animation and early manual film techniques to continuously transmute chaos into cyclicality into chaos.

This unusual conspiracy between sound and image, paired with Kristina’s unique, physical playing style, carves out distinct, ineffable moods across Tusk. Rich details enhance the organic sense of development, allowing unique nuances of this abstract narrative to emerge with each visit. Bonds are deepened; layers give way. Much as the concertina bellows expand and contract, Tusk breathes.

other releases from Kristina: filament