Xeno & Oaklander

Producing minimal electronic music influenced by coldwave and other styles of dark synth pop, Xeno & Oaklander certainly are a Brooklyn-based duo offering Sean McBride and Liz Wendelbo. McBride, a Maryland indigenous, in addition has performed as Martial Canterel, as the French/Norwegian Wendelbo can be a conceptual designer, filmmaker, and professional photographer. The pair started operating as Xeno & Oaklander in 2004, favoring analog synthesizers and tools over computer-based music-making, and pairing Wendelbo’s sensual vocals with chilly, exact consumer electronics. The duo self-released their debut, Vigils, that they recorded in a single continuous consider, in 2006 (Wierd Information reissued it in 2011), placing them in the forefront of 21st hundred years groups drawing motivation through the minimal wave motion from the ’80s. Xeno & Oaklander produced their formal Wierd debut in ’09 2009 using the solitary Saracen, a harbinger for his or her more polished recording Sentinelle. The group came back in 2011 with Models & Lamps, a lusher and warmer undertake their sound that finished up becoming their final recording for Wierd, which folded soon later on. Xeno & Oaklander added even more nuance with their music using the 2013 solitary Sheen for Electric powered Voice, and had written a soundtrack for Swiss designer Fabian Marti. The duo got at Ghostly for 2014’s Par Avion, an recording influenced by synesthesia and offering an analog Serge modular synth. 2 yrs later on, the duo came back towards the label for the discharge of their 5th full-length, Topiary. Documented at Tom Tom Club’s Connecticut-based Clubhouse Studio room, Topiary was the initial Xeno & Oaklander record to become sung completely by Wendelbo.