It’s time for celebration whenever we’re blessed by the latest iteration of tiro!’s sonic growth – and so to showcase Gymkhana at Roses Are Red is a privilege, a gift to ourselves and all of you, given with heart and the warmest hug. Six wildly exciting new winners with diversity to reflect the scope of his output both past and future. It’s an exercise in grabbing hold of your regrets and turning them into art. To embrace new worlds, new dimensions, directions and challenges. To shake the past from off your boots, find your tribe and just let go for once.
Do you know how lucky you are, sweetpea? What a lovely day it’s meant to be? Because tiro!’s Gymkhana is here to hold your hand, whether you knew you needed it or not. And with it comes the chance to participate in the next step of an ever-fascinating personal journey, swerving through the smoothest, most rejuvenating edges of House music and life itself via six of the freshest necessities. It’s all the thrills of a new start. It’s taking its knocks and throwing itself into the next adventure with love. So, if you’re looking for that new path too, walk it with us and let the happy tears roll like basslines into infinity.
Soft Serv at the Country Fair is nice as its namesake, as if you expected any less. Its unassuming but playful; the perfect, tenderly psychedelic icebreaker. A rousing introduction you can only hope holds you in its enchanting rhythm forever. Or just until For Drew calmly begins to stir you with a mystic's energy, expanding and contracting in its hypnotic ascending repetitions, the living, driving pulse oh-so-lightly shaking your bones. Absorbing you. Just the way you like it.
And it’s all in preparation for the entrancing Bailando Con Mis Hombres and how it reverberates through you like the giant pounding walls of some futuristic underground disco. Where flashing lights can reach into you and you move as one with those around you. There’s nothing to fear. You’re surrounded by love and we promise only good times, calm vibrations and real healing. With a remix by Dj Born Again Virgin that brings it up through the earth and into hyperspace to show us the highs and lows of cosmic travel.
Fresca's our return to just above the atmosphere - a idyllic cloud-riding trip over the grounds of House music heaven, with a party on the front lawn of the pearly gates at night. It’s a call to tomorrow’s greater days. The only reminder you’ll ever need – you’ll be alright. And the good times guarantee is delivered. You don’t have to stop dancing till you want to. At least not until "Hey" Fever's final curtain call – at which, when you’re ready, we’ll tuck you in sweetly under the stars with a long drink in your hand and your good friends at Roses Are Red Records all around you, smiling wide.
- Written by Alec Brynard
credits
released August 12, 2022
Written by Tiro Onkgopotse Peter-Anthony Phalatse
Producer by tiro!
Mixed by tiro!
Mastered by Gareth Jones, JBS Music Design
Released on Roses Are Red
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