is at the Tate Modern until 5 January 2020 – the musician is all about emotion. The artwork that touched him so deeply it spawned an entire record was, a 150-metre long circular glass walkway that sits between the city of Aarhus and the sky. Spanning all colours of the spectrum, the particular shade you’re looking at the city through is designed to alter your perception of what it is you’re viewing. A real walk for the senses.
“It’s a song about euphoria, liberation, elation,” Tony says of the track. “These feelings are conveyed through the lens of a beautiful psychedelic experience I had. So, for me, it’s about taking a dive into the mind’s eye to reprogram negative patterns and discover joy in a very pure form.” And when did he last feel that level of joy, we wonder? “Maybe when I went to the Olafur exhibition at the Tate a few weeks ago,” he decides.1. Tony grew up between Lagos, Nigeria and London, UK.
“I love both places so much. I think Lagos really hardened me. I had so many crazy experiences there, both positive and dark, but all beautiful. It made me aware of my privileges, my background, my roots. Being there and around my family I really got a strong sense of my cultural identity, and in the past few years I’ve begun to really understand the value of that. London is amazing, it’s such a wild place and it really opened me up personally and creatively, I definitely found myself here.
album. And more recently, his track ‘Dawn Chorus’ does that for me too. It just shatters me into a trillion pieces. I can’t help it, I just burst into tears. It’s so cathartic. On the other hand, Arca’s albumhas that effect but it touches very different emotions. I need those experiences, they make me feel truly alive and they’re seriously grounding.
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