VON HERTZOG - All The Pretty Faces (Feat. C Z A R I N A)
Philadelphia-based Cold Wave and Retro-Future Artist and Producer VON HERTZOG recently dropped a new cover of The Killers’ track “All The Pretty Faces,” featuring Galicia-based American artist CZARINA (formally styled as C Z A R I N A), who provided both vocals and guitar performances. The track mixes cold wave, dark electro and raw lo-fi 90s alt rock back drop with CZARINA’s hallmark darkwave and post-punk vocals, all culminating into an epic and emotional crescendo.
“The is a song I've loved since I first heard it in 2007. Finding out Flood and Alan Moulder produced it only made perfect sense to me. Getting a chance to reinvent it with CZARINA was something too good to pass up. Landing in quarantine after spending ‘2 long years in a strange strange land,' I found this song somewhat autobiographical about my pre-pandemic life. ‘Help me out I need it,’ because there's no going back,” explains Hertzog, as to why he chose this track.
“I love The Killers. It was refreshing to be able to do a track that is just so raw, so gutsy and true to the good ol’ untethered punk vibe. The song is about being hurt and all the bottled up anger on edge that needs to be screamed out into the void. It was quite an experience being the voice for this and to bring out a certain level of emotional distress in the performance. I was very glad that Von asked me to do it,” says CZARINA.
Kent “Von” Hertzog is an accomplished, seasoned producer who initially emerged in the hip-hop world in 1996 under the alias DJ Luciano. He has tenured as a resident engineer at 1650 Studio and 36 Chambers, working closely with prime hip hop artists Violator’s JoJo Pellegrino, Pretty Ugly, R.A. The Rugged, Ghostface Killah and Wu-Tang’s Shyheim. At the wake of his father’s untimely death, Hertzog launched Von Hertzog in 2013 - a synth retro-futurist music project that gives nod to ‘80s retro electro. Since then he’s released six singles, two EPs, and three full-length albums, including the soundtrack to video game Neon Aileron. Hertzog is also the owner and main engineer for mixing/mastering house The Social Club. He is also the “VH” in the rising cold wave duo VH X RR under Lakeshore Records.
C Z A R I N A is Vero Faye Kitsune, an award-winning American synth and electronic artist, songwriter, producer and filmmaker based in Galicia and London. CZARINA has captured recognition for her uniquely stylish performances and dynamic approach to songwriting, production and audio-visual creative direction. She is under the German-French darkwave, industrial and goth music label darkTunes Music Group.
For the latest news on Von Hertzog, visit vonhertzog.bandcamp.com
For CZARINA, visit www.czarinaofficial.com.
