Tormento

Description

Imagine a late-night rendezvous between the playful mischief of Serge Gainsbourg and the contagious, fluid dance of Daft Punk. Tormento is a sexy soft disco odyssey that weaves a contemporary fantasy where dilemmas and desires—torments of the heart and flesh—are bathed in the sulfurous glow of classic erotic cinema. Recorded in Los Angeles and Paris, the song is the fruit of a collaboration between composer and multi-instrumentalist Louis Fontaine, DJ and music supervisor Alix Brown, and lyricist and writer Margo Fortuny. Tormento combines a haunting, nostalgic melody with a late-70s disco arrangement, featuring a blend of vintage synthesizers, driving bass lines, and rhythmic percussion. Alix Brown’s ethereal vocals convey the electrifying thrill of immediate magnetic attraction. There's seduction, mystery, the poetry of a moment, the allure of transgression, indecision, and all the things that happen late at night. Pressed on 45 rpm vinyl.