Skinny Wolves Presents:
XENO & OAKLANDER (NYC)
+ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS, MARTIAL CANTEREL
& MAGIC POCKETS
Saturday 1st June
Doors 7.30 / €10 / BYOB
The Joinery, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/519249298136348/
XENO & OAKLANDER
Xeno & Oaklander
Miss Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride, aka Xeno and Oaklander, began performing at bars, clubs and private parties in 2004, functioning single-handedly along with Sean’s solo project Martial Canterel as the instigators of what has now become a new, rapidly growing movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States. Inspired by the likes of the largely unknown first wave of continental European minimal electronic bands of the early 80’s (Absolute Body Control, Twilight Ritual, Martin Dupont, Snowy Red), the seminal early industrial bands, as well as the emphemeral, psychedelic atmospheres of the British shoegaze bands of the 1990s, Xeno and Oaklander perform using entirely analogue synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines to produce a highly-crafted, complex of form of moody, electronic pop music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggresive. Uptempo, cold, distant, echo-laden electronic landscapes provide a spacious, melancholic backdrop for Miss Liz’s complex ephemeral lyrical presence. Their entirely live approach to both performance and recording, unmediated by the computer or any prerecorded playback interference, presents a new optimistic radical paradigm shift for electronic music in which the analogue synthesizer functions entirely anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance to a ‘soft synth’ world being ‘clicked and dragged’ into oblivion.
Interview: Xeno & Oaklander from All Our Noise on Vimeo.
MARTIAL CANTEREL
Sean McBride aka MARTIAL CANTEREL is the progenitor of American Cold Synth sounds of the 21st century. He began under the moniker MORAVAGINE before he started releasing limited edition cassettes and playing Brooklyn dives as MARTIAL CANTEREL in 2002. Since then, McBride’s bleak intellectual exercises in the dark and danceable have flooded North America and Europe through the frosty fairwaves paved by Pieter Schoolwerth’s Wierd Records.
With an inimitable minimal style merging bright, urgent melodies ornamented and punctuated by the noises of industry and McBride’s sonorous, stern vocals, MARTIAL CANTEREL’s recent releases “You Today” and “Empire” have garnered both critical acclaim and a rapidly growing rabid fanbase.
McBride’s influence can be heard in scores of bands in the Wierd cadre and beyond (he is also one half of the Weird Records duo XENO & OAKLANDER). Through the collision of a uniquely humanistic means of production via live analogue synthcraft expertly paired with vocals and lyrics that reflect the pitfalls and pleasures of our age, MARTIAL CANTEREL provides a visceral kick best felt on the dancefloor, amidst a flurry of flesh in motion.
MAGIC POCKETS
https://soundcloud.com/magicpockets
Magic Pockets
Magic Pockets is the solo synthesizer project of Ruadhan O’Meara (No Spill Blood).
His dark analog compositons draw upon the works of Tangerine Dream, Goblin, Ashra, Heldon, Frizzi, Schulze, Carpenter etc, combining the meditative absorbing qualities of Kosmische Musik with the stark tension of vintage horror soundtracks.
His debut LP “Volcano of the Bleeding Skies” will be released later this year.
