TIO
Electronic music is one of those funny musical facets & functions that genuinely has the ability to conjure up brave new worlds before our ears, the mind’s eyes, the body & more. Enter cult electro pop musician TIO who is known for studio manufactured sonic portraits that operate across the spectrum of analog & digitally enhanced rhythms.
Sharing the premiere for “Hyena”, a fidelity-switch-hitting track that breaks out of the Tascam demo deck with a raw & unique sensibility. A track that is said to have been composed for another group that the artist works with; TIO on “Hyena” harnesses the power of alliterative electronica components where an arpeggio onslaught of illuminating keys immerse the audience in an unlimited rainfall of synth tones that twinkle like a sea of stars. TIO keeps the rhythm splitting keyboard sequences panning & shooting like flares as further effects are introduced to the world-warping home brew where lyrical repetitions of three more days spin the track into the hyperspace where new galaxies of sound can be experienced.
TIO shared the following insights on the new track “Hyena”:
“Hyena” was a song me and my friend Ferenc Stenton wrote for another band we were in at the time. The track is actually created in 2009 as a fairly abstract sequence and jam; the song always stuck with me and it ended up creeping its way back into my life. I ended up working on the track a bit more in summer of 2016, a solid 7 years after we first spontaneously created it while living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The cascading sequence is really the entire track for me. It just constantly washes over you. You can easily get lost in the repetitive but ever-changing sequence. I let the original jam sequence play out and arranged the song to the sequenced arpeggiator.
