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artist: Xeno & Oaklander
title : Vi/deo
label : Dais Records
catalog_number: none
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tracks: 8
type : normal
date : 2021-10-22
url : https://www.deezer.com/us/album/241137772
sourcemedia: WEB
encoder : LAME3.99r
bitrate : 320 kb/s
sample_rate: 44.1 kHz
stereo : Joint stereo channels
genre : Synthpop
genres:
- minimal wave
- synthpop
- synth pop
- minimal synth
similar_artists:
- Martial Canterel
- Deux
- Das Ding
- Automelodi
artist_url : http://xenoandoaklander.com
bandcamp_albumartist : https://xenoandoaklander.bandcamp.com
discogs_albumartist : https://www.discogs.com/artist/650302
musicbrainz_albumartist: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bfa769d9-735e-47a3-a6f5-7f1363de474a
deezer_albumartist : https://deezer.com/us/artist/987048
lastfm_albumartist : https://last.fm/music/Xeno+&+Oaklander
spotify_albumartist : https://open.spotify.com/artist/3pMGuYgBWUDurP8HzPrKoI
bandcamp_album : https://xenoandoaklander.bandcamp.com/album/vi-deo
discogs_album : https://www.discogs.com/release/2347369
musicbrainz_album: https://musicbrainz.org/release/0184d3cd-69c8-4260-99b2-090c7f4f6919
deezer_album : https://deezer.com/us/album/241137772
spotify_album : https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qB5k2Qi8ihEDl5XjaMHP9
lastfm_album : https://last.fm/music/Xeno+&+Oaklander/Vi%2Fdeo
barcode : 011586671706
label_url : http://www.daisrecords.com
discogs_label : https://www.discogs.com/label/93202
musicbrainz_label: https://musicbrainz.org/label/ba3abcfa-1808-41d6-8b8b-9bb06c0f772e
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East Coast minimal wave institution Xeno & Oaklander’s seventh
full-length further distills their iconic noir synth pop into a
streamlined suite of gleaming, graceful retrofuturism. Inspired by
ideas of synesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies,
the duo of Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride began conceiving the blueprint
of Vi/deo while sequestered at their Southern Connecticut home studio
during the pandemic. The context of isolation, streaming, and remote
dreaming seeped into their chemistry, manifesting as both homage to
and meditation on a certain cinematic strain of technicolor fantasy:
the screen as stage, distance disguised as intimacy, where tragedy
and glamor crossfade into one.
Opening with the precision synthetic melancholy of “Infinite Sadness,”
the album marks a peak fluidity between the pair’s fusion of analog
electronics and poetic melody, both refined and oblique, classic
but contemporary. Wendelbo modeled her singing on “a young boy in
a choir,” alternately holding notes and whispering them, with the
lyrics clear, the voice elevated. McBride’s synthesizers serve as
the perfect counterpart, tiered and polished, threading fluorescent
architectures of a lost audio-visual age. Theirs is a darkwave of
reverie...
bio : |
Xeno & Oaklander (aka Xeno and Oaklander) is a minimal wave / synth
duo from Brooklyn, NY, USA, comprising Sean McBride (Martial Canterel,
Three To Forgotten) and Liz Wendelbo (Three To Forgotten). They began
writing music in 2004 and they record their songs live in their studio
and play analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively.
Their latest albums are Par Avion (June 2014, Ghostly) and Topiary
(June 2016, Ghostly).
Other releases include: EP Vigils (2006, Xanten), single Saracen
(2009, Wierd), Sentinelle (2009, Wierd) and Sets & Lights (2011, Wierd).
Also, original tracks complied on Music For Ruins (2004, Xanten),
Wierd Compilation (2006, Wierd) and Wierd Compilation Vol.II :
Analogue Electronic Music 2008 (2008, Wierd).
Special editions include: Movements (June 2015, Ghostly), recorded
live at the Xeno & Oaklander analog synth studio in Brooklyn, the
35 minute piece was inspired by travel in space and time. Field
recordings gleaned during their travels are mixed in. Movements II
(May 2017, Ghostly), released as a cassette available for sale
exclusively at concerts on Xeno & Oaklander’s 2017 Spring European
Tour, is representing Part 2 of the ambient electronic piece
Movements and contains 7 tracks Theriac I, II and III as A side and
Movements II A, B, C and D as B side. Moonlight (October 2017) is an
evocative synth reverie. The track was originally released on vinyl
in association with Electronic Sound magazine.
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tracklist:
- [ 1 , "Infinite Sadness" , 00:04:43.350 ]
- [ 2 , "Poison" , 00:04:02.390 ]
- [ 3 , "Afar" , 00:03:32.871 ]
- [ 4 , "Technicolor" , 00:04:29.217 ]
- [ 5 , "Television" , 00:04:25.247 ]
- [ 6 , "Gain" , 00:04:08.163 ]
- [ 7 , "Movie Star" , 00:03:33.002 ]
- [ 8 , "Raingarden" , 00:04:25.430 ]
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