Warp & Weft

by Saint Idiot from Edmonton, Canada

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Saint Idiot (Tomáš Andel) is a Slovak-Canadian art pop musician, sound designer, and multimedia artist from Edmonton, Canada.

His music has been interpreted as a deconstruction of pop; familiar forms set in sophisticated sound palettes; a music defined by surprise and curiosity.

Warp & Weft, the fourth single off of the upcoming album, Alternate Utopias from a Nostalgic Future, is about how we naturally interweave with people who surround us—”I am just one necessary but lonely thread,” Andel says, “until I turn toward other people and see them for what they are: my context, my basis—from there, I can’t help but be cracked wide open to the world, and made a better person for it.”

The music and world building of Saint Idiot is inspired by the fantastic multi-sensory worlds of Björk and Bowie, the continuing legacy of bell hooks, as well as Zen, Deep Listening, ambient music, greenscreens, and flora. Saint Idiot’s music is similar in color to Björk, Motion Graphics, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and Toro Y Moi.

Saint Idiot’s visual aesthetic is inspired by the pastel iridescence of artists like Julian Glander and Cobysoft Joe, and deals with the tension between the phantom, touchless digital, and the embodied. As such, it deliberately keeps at least a few firm roots in the rich, black, living soil.