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-io
Artist
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Circuit des Yeux
Label
Matador
Catalogue Number
OLE1788DA
Release Date
22 October 2021

‘-io’ is the sixth album by vocalist and composer Haley Fohr, best known as Circuit des Yeux.

A celebrated figure in Chicago’s music community, she has released acclaimed albums via De Stijl, Thrill Jockey, and Drag City and toured throughout the world. However, '-io' is Circuit des Yeux’s most ornate and elaborate work to date – a set of compositions that nest Fohr’s otherworldly four-octave voice amid a 24-piece string, brass, and wind ensemble. The album was put to tape last fall by Cooper Crain at Chicago’s Electrical Audio studio and mixed by Marta Salogni (Bjork, Holly Herndon) with Fohr acting as arranger and producer. Written in the wake of personal loss and recorded in the midst of the pandemic, '-io' maps a geography of grief – a place where “everything is ending all the time.” While Fohr’s music has never been short on ambition, these songs are striking in their brilliance and strangeness. On '-io', Circuit des Yeux has delivered a work that is vivid, immense, and fully illuminated.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Tonglen | In Vain 0:33 Buy

    Tonglen | In Vain

  2. 2 Vanishing 4:34 Buy

    Vanishing

  3. 3 Dogma 3:24 Buy

    Dogma

  4. 4 The Chase 2:41 Buy

    The Chase

  5. 5 Sculpting the Exodus 5:01 Buy

    Sculpting the Exodus

  6. 6 Walking Toward Winter 4:12 Buy

    Walking Toward Winter

  7. 7 Argument 5:02 Buy

    Argument

  8. 8 Neutron Star 6:07 Buy

    Neutron Star

  9. 9 Stranger 5:39 Buy

    Stranger

  10. 10 Oracle Song 3:53 Buy

    Oracle Song

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