Eon ReZ: “Strings of Connection”
In the first three seconds of “Strings of Connection,” you hear a voice on a single vowel, and what Eon ReZ does with nothing more than an “ooo” tells you that something special is coming. That opening is a run of melismatic vocalese, a ribbon of silky “ooo”s (rhyme it with shoe) that slip in and around the beat the way a tenor player feels for the pocket before committing to the head. Beneath him, a crisp, syncopated guitar figure, lightly muffled by the hand so that each stroke lands as much as percussion as pitch, sets the table. The effect is mesmerizing: soulful and groove-deep at once, a late-night room before the band has fully arrived.
Then ReZ steps into the first verse, singing "Wake up, shake up, rinse and repeat, Coffee, chaos, shoes on my feet," and the temperature in the room changes. This is the kind of vocal that gives you chills, the hairs on your arm standing at attention, the unmistakable sense that art is coursing through your ears. Composer Anthony C. Benanti understands the old jazz virtue of leaving space, and the groove beneath the verse is minimalist and exactly right, giving the voice all the air it needs. A clap on the upbeat cracks like a finger snap from the back booth, and the bass walks patiently along.
And then the chorus. The moment the title phrase arrives, the whole arrangement opens wide at once: bluesy electric keys, punchy drums, brass and electronic percussion flooding in together, as if a door to the cosmos has been flung open. ReZ is singing about the universe, and suddenly everything in the track is connected. Soon a horn steps forward, and it is not a solo in the conventional melodic sense. It is danceable and direct, closer to an announcement than a melody, a proclamation of life itself, and it returns later to make the declaration again. At 128 beats per minute the song carries a contemporary pulse, but what it really feels is alive. When ReZ sings of feeling the connection hum beneath his skin, the listener feels it too. Somewhere in that chorus I found my arms in the air, swaying and bobbing along, lost in the sheer jubilation of finding life in the moment.
Through all of this, the voice remains the event. ReZ is electric from the first bar to the final note, his instrument moving fluidly among gospel, pop and R&B, governed by remarkable control. Listen to how he shapes dynamics within a single sustained vowel, how he leans behind the beat and then lands squarely on it, how a wordless “ooo” can carry more feeling than a verse of lyrics. This is phrasing that rewards close attention, and it demands repeated listens.
Benanti 's lyrics are a small marvel of scale. The song's story opens in the most ordinary of places, the bleary rush of a weekday morning, all caffeine and commuter haste, and then, somewhere between breakfast and the train platform, lets the cosmos in. It is a classic blues move, the everyday as the doorway to the eternal, and he plays it with a wink. Existential questions arrive while dinner reheats; the trees seem to strike up a conversation; the mind crashes and reboots like an overworked machine (a sly nod, perhaps, to the community of “Glitches” that has gathered around his work). Beneath the humor, the chorus carries the song’s true weight, describing connection not as an abstraction but as something felt physically, a vibration that points back toward our common origins. The chorus is built on call and response, with echoed phrases and wordless cries answering the lead like a congregation answering a preacher, so that the music itself becomes a web of voices bound together.
Near the end, ReZ does something brave. He pulls the dynamic all the way down for an a cappella moment, his voice suddenly alone, as he sings of searching for a way to explore his own soul. After all that jubilation, the hush is breathtaking, and it brings the song full circle to where it began: one voice, unaccompanied, reaching for something larger.
That something has a name in ReZ’s world: “the hum,” an underlying current of connection running through people, matter, memory and experience. “Strings of Connection” was the first song in which he began to hear it, and “It is the beginning of the ReZ journey,” as the artist himself puts it. It sounds like an origin story: intimate, searching and joyfully expansive. So listen to this song, and explore your soul. “Strings of Connection” will take you there. - Review written by Sylvie Marie for Indie Spoonful
About the Artist
Eon ReZ is a Brooklyn-based artist, storyteller and U.S. Air Force veteran whose work blends rock, soul and blues with a modern techno-blues pulse and gospel-infused vocals. “Strings of Connection” appears on his second album, The Resonance of Existence, though the song predates the record in spirit: it was the first piece he created that sparked the sound and philosophy behind what would become the ReZ Universe.
Since launching the ReZ Universe in January 2026, ReZ has built an audience of more than 480,000 subscribers, generated over 6.2 million views and reached more than two million unique viewers worldwide. The project weaves together original music, spoken word, speculative physics, cinematic visuals and serialized storytelling, connecting a growing global community known as “The Glitches” and inspiring the broader creative vision of ReZ-University. Through it all runs a single question about how people, energy and the universe are bound together. For Eon ReZ, the journey didn’t begin with an album or a universe. It began with a string.
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