‘-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.”
TRACKLISTING:
1. Tonglen | In Vain
2. Vanishing
3. Dogma
4. The Chase
5. Sculpting the Exodus
6. Walking Toward Winter
7. Argument
8. Neutron Star
9. Stranger
10. Oracle Song
