One To Watch – River Tiber

We’re loving the new release ‘Waves’ from Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and producer River Tiber.
‘Waves’ is the first release from his forthcoming EP ‘When The Time Is Right’ due for self release on 16th September.
River Tiber (real name Tommy Paxton-Beesley) was flung into the limelight earlier this year when Drake’s ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ standout ‘No Tellin’ prominently sampled his then-unreleased song ‘No Talk’ (which caught an online premiere via FADER shortly after).
Since then River Tiber has emerged as a key prospect in Toronto’s booming scene via collaborations with beatmaker heavyweights Frank Dukes and Wondagurl and delivering custom sounds for projects like BADBADNOTGOOD x Ghostface Killah’s collab Sour Soul.
River Tiber has already gathered support from international tastemakers such as Gilles Peterson and Left, who both featured his work on their shows respectively.
To add to River Tiber’s prowess he was also recently selected as one of just three Canadian entrants to Red Bull Music Academy Paris 2015. RBMA had this to say of the future star: “As River Tiber, singer/multi-instrumentalist and producer Tommy Paxton-Beesley is unafraid to push his love for R&B and hip hop production into unusual places: pitching his vocals to sound like Mariah Carey, multitracking his voice into a dozen ghost choruses, and narrowing the gap in the soul spectrum between Jodeci and Flying Lotus.”
Listen to River Tiber Waves below…