Sterling Toles

Ingenious producer, musician, visual artist, and educator Sterling Toles quietly upholds the communal legacy of Detroit's evolving underground music scene. Outside his city, he's known most for recordings with Boldy James, from a cut on the street rapper's debut Trapper's Alley: Pros and Cons, to the entirety of the duo album Manger on McNichols. Toles' limited solo output is highlighted by Resurget Cineribus, a highly personal sound collage originally circulated by hand on CD-R in 2005 and remastered for wider release in 2017.