UPCOMING EVENTS //

XENO & OAKLANDER / LED ER EST

Skinny Wolves Presents,

XENO & OAKLANDER (Usa, Wierd Records)
LED ER EST (Usa, Wierd Records)
w/ Guests TBA

Sunday 18th April 2010
Whelan, (upstairs), Wexford St, Dublin
Doors : 8.00pm
Tickets info : TBA

XENO & OAKLANDER

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Xeno and Oaklander is a minimal wave/synth duo from New York, comprising of  Sean McBride (Martial Canterel, Three to forgotten) and Miss Liz Wendelbo (Xeno and Staccato, Three to forgotten). They began writing music in 2004. Miss Liz Wendelbo is French / Norwegian and Sean McBride is from Maryland. They record their songs live in their studio and play analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively.


Xeno & Oaklander - "Preuss" (Live at WIERD) from jordan levine on Vimeo.

LED ER EST

Led er est was formed in early 2007 by Samuel kKlovenhoof and Shawn NoEQ. Drawing from the dire textures of first-wave industrial music, the craftsmanship and ambience of postpunk and coldwave, and the primal kineticism of old school house and techno, the project was initially more of an outlet for song fragments and delirious baubles. As their sound took a more structured turn towards the end of 2007, Owen Stokes was recruited. Led er est strives towards that which is otherworldy and alien(ating), but also immediate and infectious. Their live performance is raw and unhinged, at times leaning towards the improvisatory, but ultimately rooted in traditional songcraft.

ABOUT THEIR LP:

"Wierd is proud to present the debut LP by Led Er Est: Dust on Common. The band's first full-length release shows the three piece clearly breaking out of the Wierd minimal synth underground they have been a vitally integral part of since its inception in Brooklyn to create an undeniably contemporary set of highly crafted and restrained, icily psychedelic pop songs.

Synthesizing countless disparate musical influences from first wave British industrial music to house, disco, and the largely unknown cold wave (aka 'La Vague Froide') tradition in Northern Europe, the 9 killer trax on Dust fly by, straight out of the frozen hot, lonely cold plains of vocalist Samuel Kklovenhoof's native central Texas. After digesting a few songs of this rich dust, the listener can do no other than lie down in the wild wierd Laredo bunker to revel in the refreshingly brisk blast of hedonistic analogue pleasure dancing through the airwaves in the sky above...Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Led Er Est!"