Tomas Tello

Tomás Tello is a Peruvian multi-instrumentalist and experimental musician born in Lima in 1981. His work draws on traditional Andean music, everyday sound and the possibilities of electronic and acoustic instruments, often bringing field recordings and handcrafted electronics into intimate sonic constructions.

His instrumentarium has included guitar, quenas, charango, small synthesizers, cassette machines, radios and effects pedals. Rather than treating traditional sources as quotations, Tello uses them within personal sound worlds shaped by listening, repetition and improvisation. Creative Sources documents this approach on Labor (CS206), while recordings for labels such as Discrepant further explore the meeting of Peruvian musical memory and electroacoustic experimentation.