Rubber Wing, by Telo Hoy

Rubber Wing

by Telo Hoy

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1.	Caboose 03:55	buy track
2.	Rosebud 03:59	buy track
3.	Melody for a One-Winged Bird 02:00	buy track
4.	One Thousand Sirens 07:31	buy track
5.	Melody for a Dying Star 01:37	buy track
6.	Stem 02:07	buy track
7.	Propeller 08:00	buy track
8.	Exiting the Station 03:22	buy track

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Composed merely of layers from the vibraphone and ARP synthesizer, Telo Hoy’s debut album is texturally gritty, iridescently raw, crystalline, and warm.

He finds melody in light — the uneven flicker of a lightbulb, the pulse of a star in the distance, the liminal hues of dusk or dawn. “Rubber Wing” is similarly inspired by passing trains, plane motors, and the core elements of the vibraphone: the rubber motor belt, the resonators, the rotating rotors.

The album evokes continuous ascension, following the trajectory of a bird or the mechanical components of an engine gaining speed. Drawing on his skillful technique of the vibraphone, repeating patterns grow and pulse.

There is a darkness and despair that lingers. Some compositions sustain for longer than they are played, their sorrow felt through strenuous echoes and their accompanying visuals: a bird with one wing, a dying star.

In a circular trajectory, the last track alludes to the train of the first track. The darkness eventually dissolves with the synthesizer, which emerges like a blinking light or a bright star, illuminating.

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released February 2, 2024

All music composed by Telo Hoy
Vibraphone and synthesizers performed and recorded by Telo Hoy at home, 2022
Mixed by Zubin Hensler
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Photography by Fyodor Shiryaev
Words by Mána Taylor
Special thanks to Tyler Andere, Nabil Ayers, Patricia Brennan, Arnold Dreyblatt, David Dunn, John Vokoun, my family, and friends

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