OFFICIAL TEASER CLIP OF ACCOMPANYING MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW
Genre-bending electronic artist Mike Inzano, better known as INZO, has released the title track off of his forthcoming Earth Magic EP following the recent announcement of his first-ever headline tour. Featuring DJ and singer-songwriter Elohim, this new track is the latest in a fast-growing list of revered collaborators.
"Earth Magic," via Lowly. (home of NGHTMRE, Said The Sky, TroyBoi, and more,) heralds a new direction for his sound marked by the more quiet, introspective areas of his range. Created during lockdown, Earth Magic is more cinematic and calmer, with lo-fi beats, piano breakdowns, and transcendent synth beams—a byproduct of INZO's renewed focus on health and wellness. Making music itself has become therapeutic for him, so it's fitting that his new work reflects that cozy headspace. As much as he enjoys playing live, he especially loves the quieter, more intimate moments of listening back to a track he’s made for the first time and realizing it’s exactly what he’d envisioned.
“I like to make music for other people to enjoy,” he says, “but at the end of the day it's an expression of me.”
The official video for the track, which remains unreleased, sets the tone for the project with a visual depiction of the inspiration behind the album, featuring INZO in various stunning nature scenes across Italy and Utah. Watch the official teaser and check out the full list of tour dates below.
INZO - EARTH MAGIC TOUR 2022
OCTOBER
14 – Tampa, FL – The Ritz
15 – New Orleans, LA – Republic NOLA
21 – Dallas, TX – Studio @ The Factory ☞
22 – Orlando, FL – Glit ☞
NOVEMBER
11 – New York, NY – Webster Hall ☽
18 – Charlotte, NC – The Black Box ☞
19 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theater ☞
JANUARY
12 – Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation ☽
13 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex ☞
14 – Minneapolis, MN – The Loft @ Skyway Theater ☽
20 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House ☞
21 – Columbus, OH – Skully's ☞
28 – Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall
FEBRUARY
17 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom ☽
18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theater ☽
24 – Portland, OR – 45 East
25 – Seattle, WA – Neumo's
- with Dreamers Delight
- with Rome In Silver
- with Sumthin Sumthin
☽ - with Align
- with Blookoh
☞ - with Covex
For INZO, there’s a thrill in possibility. The Denver-based electronic artist is less concerned with labels and more with creating immaculate vibes and moving melodies. “If I could make any and every genre,” he says, “I would.” He lives up to that mission through luminescent synth lines that flutter through his tracks like fireflies, chest-caving bass, and wistful, nostalgic vocal samples. Through it all, no matter what sounds and styles he chooses, he has a constant goal: He wants you to feel something. “If you're crying, if you're having a fun time, if you're having an epiphany at that moment,” INZO says, “sad, happy, whatever—I just want my music to be an experience.”
Growing up in Chicago, INZO seemed destined for music. When he was 4 years old, his parents enrolled him in piano lessons where he studied classical greats like Beethoven; at 6, he chose to learn drums inspired by rock groups like Red Hot Chili Peppers. In high school, INZO found increasing success as part of a metal band. When a potentially career-making opportunity to play Warped Tour fell through, he took it as a sign to move on, go to college, and pursue a medical career. But freshman year, he found rave culture, which pulled him back in. Instead of attending classes, INZO camped out in the campus music studio and taught himself production, eventually leaving school behind to pursue it full-time.
For the next two years, INZO tried on different styles, hopping from soaring progressive house (“High Above”) and raucous electro house (“Brocaine Camaro”) to a pop-rock-electronic hybrid (“Young Heart”). In 2017, he released the single “Visionaries,” a hazy track with crashing waves of bass and warm, cascading synth drops. Somewhere in its mellow ambiance and ethereal arrangements, something clicked. “That was the first time I was sure of my musical identity,” he recalls. “Who I wanted to be, the music I wanted to make, the sound I wanted to capture.”
Following that instinct served INZO well. His next single, 2018’s introspective “Overthinker,” was his most successful to date, recently surpassing 62M+ Spotify streams. The accompanying visual on YouTube has over 35M views and more than 1M likes. The bass-heavy track builds on atmosphere, sampling a speech by philosopher Alan Watts that cuts through the dreamy melodies and euphoric synth blooms with sobering musings. Then, inspired to shake up his sound, INZO flexed his range on his 2019 debut EP, Multiverse, delivering stuttering funk on “Let It Slide,” laser-charged heaviness on “Y,” and blindingly bright melodies on the title track.
2020 brought the onset of the pandemic and a restructuring (and in a lot of ways, disbandment) of the normal functions of the music industry. For INZO, this lead to new outlets for connection in the electronic space through a series of collaborations with likeminded experimenters. "It Goes In Waves" was the first to be released with Blookah and ALIGN in 2020, followed by "Overthinker (CloZee Remix)" in 2021, and finally "Awaken" with Carbin and "BLASTA" with LSDREAM in 2022 .