--- release: # ______ # /\____ _ ____ ___/\ ____ ______ _____ / o /| # / . \/ \ // V \|\ \| .\/ ||/ // /// # / / ^ ` \ > \ \\\_ ._ | ! . /// # / // \\ . \ / .\\ // . \\/ -\\ \ /// # __/___//--->> \ V Y V // / . \/ # //_- \_ \ \\ !| // / .. . /| !| . \ # <<-. _ .__. /_- X .| .. /\ / //|! .|\ \\ \ # \\ \ /|\________/\\____^_____//^\_______ ///|____^_______\ # \\____//|\_------_/ \_-_> <_--_|/ \_----_|\/// |_--_|_-----_/ # \_--_|/ \|/ # #/---------------------------------------------------------------\ artist: Xeno & Oaklander title : Vi/deo label : Dais Records catalog_number: none #\---------------------+-----------------------------------------/ 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 # <--------------------+------------------------------------------> # \_____________________________________________________________/ #/---------------------------------------------------------------------\ comment: | East Coast minimal wave institution Xeno & OaklanderΓÇÖs 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 ΓÇ£Infinite Sadness,ΓÇ¥ the album marks a peak fluidity between the pairΓÇÖs fusion of analog electronics and poetic melody, both refined and oblique, classic but contemporary. Wendelbo modeled her singing on ΓÇ£a young boy in a choir,ΓÇ¥ alternately holding notes and whispering them, with the lyrics clear, the voice elevated. McBrideΓÇÖs 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 & OaklanderΓÇÖs 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. # | | # >-------------------------------------------------------------------< 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 ] # \____________________________________________________________________/ # #/---------------------------------------------------------------------\ news: | Hi chaps! This is the new retrofuturistic "back to the future" obso-leet AMOK nfo hybridising oldskool ASCII art and YAML. As a possible first in the scene (is it really?), we provide an nfo that is designed to be both human and machine readable. 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