-io: – Circuit Des Yeux [CD]

‘-io’ is the sixth album by vocalist and composer Haley Fohr, best known as Circuit des Yeux. The album contains a set of compositions that nest Fohr’s otherworldly four-octave voice amid a 24-piece string, brass, and wind ensemble. 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.

Disc 1
1. Tonglen | in Vain – Circuit Des Yeux
2. Vanishing – Circuit Des Yeux
3. Dogma – Circuit Des Yeux
4. The Chase – Circuit Des Yeux
5. Sculpting the Exodus – Circuit Des Yeux
6. Walking Toward Winter – Circuit Des Yeux
7. Argument – Circuit Des Yeux
8. Neutron Star – Circuit Des Yeux
9. Stranger – Circuit Des Yeux
10. Oracle Song – Circuit Des Yeux