Leírás
Electronic, Darkwave, Synth Pop, Miniumal Wave/Electronics, Analogue Synthesizers,
Limited edition DIGI pack CD kiadvány, 2024-es album.
Xeno & Oaklander are a minimal electronics duo (Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride of Martial Canterel) based in Brooklyn, New York. They have been deeply involved in the analog synth community since 2004 (the release of their debut Vigils LP on Xanten), and have helped promote and inspire the revival of synth wave in the US and throughout the world through their extensive touring and prolific output.
The eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander is named after and inspired by „the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other:” ‘Via Negativa (in the doorway light)’. Recorded in the fall of 2023 at their modernist Connecticut home fashioned into a two-story synthesizer laboratory and mixing studio, the album is uniquely visionary in spirit yet precision in execution, a contrast central to the duo’s enduring chemistry. Embryonic piano sketches were translated to nuanced modular systems, which McBride weighted with „harmonic padding,” tuned percussion, and a spectral transfer device capable of „rendering spasms of rhythmic overtonal filigree.” Despite the technological complexity of their craft, emotively the songs require no deciphering – these are technicolor widescreen anthems of the cybernetic age.
Xeno & Oaklander re-prove themselves masters of the axis of technology and poetry, snaking cables and synesthesia, mining melodies and myths across 15 years of focused artistry. Theirs is a muse still gilded and gleaming, burnished red and silver, attuned to „the unobservable, the unfamiliar, that which you don’t see directly.”
YouTube video:
„Via Negativa”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10pcsfS5dDI
XENO & OAKLANDER: https://www.youtube.com/@XenoOaklander/videos
Instagram: instagram.com/xenoandoaklander
Facebook: facebook.com/xenoandoaklndr
Felvételek:
1. Via Negativa (in the doorway light) 03:58
2. Mercury Mind
3. The Unknown Side
4. Lost and There
5. Actor’s Foil
6. Magic of the Manifold 03:45
7. O Vermillion 03:37
8. Strange Fellows
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