[et_pb_section fullwidth="off" specialty="on" background_color="#050505" inner_shadow="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="css"][et_pb_column type="3_4" specialty_columns="3"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left"]<h1>Todd Tobias</h1><p><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-9264" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Todd-Tobias-1-Adjusted-222x300.jpg" alt="Todd Tobias" width="183" height="248" /></a><em>“it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.”</em> –<strong> DOA </strong></p><p>After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias struck out on his own with his debut solo album M<em>edicine Show</em>. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, Tobias' debut is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.</p><p><strong><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tobias/385101561556685?fref=ts" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png" alt="Facebook" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="Website" href="http://www.tobias-music.com/id4.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png" alt="Website" width="26" height="20" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#ffffff" show_divider="off" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label="Artist Tabs"][et_pb_tab title="Discography"]<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>I Razor (featuring Circus Devils)</h4>
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<iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 1340px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1896803588/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-razor">I RAZOR by Todd Tobias and CIRCUS DEVILS</a></iframe> May 2013
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<i>I Razor</i>, by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, is the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias. The <i>I Razor</i> soundtrack comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across ethereal synthscapes, and unveils kaleidoscopic new treasures among its 30+ tracks with each listen. Told from the perspective of a former scientist turned wandering telepathic man-child, <i>I Razor</i> is the story of one man’s quest to regain his lost humanity.  <i>I Razor</i> presents its world in hallucinatory visions, reflecting the state of mind of its main character.  The story is told with minimal dialog and an open plot structure, relying instead on visuals and music to carry it’s narratives.
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<h4>Night Above Ground</h4>
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In contrast to <em>Medicine Show</em>'s serpentine construction and intense atmosphere, <em>Night Above Ground</em> is more airy, accessible and playful, bursting into vivid life with the crowd chatter and tumbling noisescapes of ‘Invocation’. Immersive, hypnotic tracks such as ‘Crystal Palace People’ alternate with brief, impressionistic pieces such as ‘Workshop of Spears’ and ‘Ashes and Cream’. The EP’s 17 minutes flow past your third eye like a Dali-esque dream.
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<h4>Medicine Show</h4>
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<iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 670px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1386444045/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-show">MEDICINE SHOW by Todd Tobias</a></iframe> April 2012
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After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <span style="font-style: italic;">Medicine Show</span> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <span style="font-style: italic;">Medicine Show</span> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Bio"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Todd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with fellow Ohioan Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices). Todd has been Robert Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles</em>. Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist Kramies (<em>The European</em> EP).</p><p>Todd has always been a musical experimentalist. While playing in bands as a drummer or bassist, he continued work on his own with a cassette 4 track, creating soundscapes and his own brand of exotic rock. One of Todd’s basement tapes eventually caught the ear of Robert Pollard, who then asked Todd and brother Tim to form Circus Devils. Following the debut album from Circus Devils in 2001, Todd began to use the band as a showpiece for his unorthodox musical adventures. After nine albums with Circus Devils, and several dozen album productions with Robert Pollard and a variety of other artists, Todd finally birthed his first solo work for Hidden Shoal, <em>Medicine Show</em>.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="News"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=todd-tobias-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<p style="text-align: right;"><a title="Todd Tobias News" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/news/todd-tobias-news/"><strong>More News</strong></a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Reviews"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=todd-tobias-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title]<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><a title="Todd Tobias Reviews" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/category/reviews/todd-tobias-reviews/">More Reviews</a></strong></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Press Releases"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-I_Razor_Soundtrack.pdf"> <em>I Razor</em> Soundtrack Album Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_-_Circus_Devils-All_The_Good_Ones_Are_Gone.pdf">Circus Devils – ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ single Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Medicine_Show.pdf">Todd Tobias – <em>Medicine Show</em> Album Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf">‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ Single Release</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf">Todd Tobias Signs To Hidden Shoal</a></p><p> </p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Gallery"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids="9266,9267,9268"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Video"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qTYQfnb71hE?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AQbVKD3ACeA?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EXOYfO_ZoRM?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Licensing"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Todd Tobias's music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_4"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label="Sidebar" orientation="left" area="sidebar-1" background_layout="light" module_id="shoalsidebar" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]