Xao - Wirehead

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS013
Release Date: 2nd December 2022

Pre-order available at canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/wirehead

‘An overwhelming diet of stimulation. Maximalist sonics reflect/mimic the barrage of media, attention hijack. A cathartic balm with which to come down from the onslaught. To break out of the compulsion loop. Erosion of Attention and Critical Thought. The inability to write or hear a melody.

As more potent stimulus is experienced with greater frequency, the elicited response grows duller. Satisfactory engagement requires stronger, stranger and crueller stimulus. Entropy cascades, form becomes occluded. Dragon chasing. The Earth will implode under the weight of our data. The internet currently boasts the mass of a strawberry.

Wire-heading as a Possible Contributor to Civilisational Decline.
Wire-heading as a Possible Contributor to the Death of Art?
Wire-heading as a form of music making…
DAW addiction, resampling syndrome.

Micro-genres and reissues. A glut of influences, fleeting obsessions; option paralysis fomented. Procedural and algorithmic composition to break the stalemate. The imposition of order becomes freeing. Seeding pareidolia? Freedom through procedure. The altar wine of counterpoint and the modafinil of machine learning. Or a new digital spirituality achieved through enhanced aleatory. Silicon zealotry and the pursuit of the divine online.’

Music by Xao

Vocals on 'I Wed My Shadow' performed by Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork and design by Somnath Bhatt

Mastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Xao - Bone Theory

Coronado

Coronado/ 7

FLag is a song about a forbidden romance — a strange, spectral encounter between a girl and the ghost that, as if it were her own
body, inhabits the depths of a car. The narrative drifts between fantasy and the impossible, constructing a metaphor for a denied
freedom, turned delusion. FLag breathes life into what is lifeless. It summons a love story ungranted by the daylight's judgment —
one that unfolds inside a vehicle frozen in time, under the cover of night.
In FLag, Bella Báguena is a doll, a liminal figure, vanishing between the seats of a car. She is a witch who seduces and slips away,
playing with the inert presence of the vehicle like it were a spellbound lover, as if the car were an altar and the video a ritual.
She recites the line,
“it is so inanimate, so so inanimate”
— a phrase that paradoxically infuses life into a soulless object, turning it
into a container of her euphoria. The machine becomes a projection of the body itself. The chorus,
“The hair, my flag” is a hyped
proclamation of femme existence— through hair, through presence.
FLag becomes a love story ungranted by the logic of day — consummated only in the interior of a car stopped in time, and in the
darkness where fantasy is allowed to live.

FLag

For Residue

Tranquilizer

D.I.S.

Modern Lust

Waterfalls

Rodl Glide

“Oh my love… eat your breast with the bone…”

Audible Arrangements is a collection of six tracks created between New York and Marseille, inspired by sweaty summer nightmares and cinematic poetry.

Bearing alternative rock, art pop and acid tekno influences, this record maps out the parallels in our relationship to sex and food, and bringing a new sound to conversations about gender identity.

“My seed is so strong, as a man I’d belong”

Written, produced & performed by LEGIT GIRL DJ. 
Mix & master by Fausto Mercier.

Cover artwork by Éloïse Labarbe-Lafon.

When I Collapse / Kill The Envious Moon

Part of @goddezztemple new V/A ENOCHIA out everywhere on the 26th of November 😇😇😇

Pre-order on Bandcamp via the 'Buy' link

Artwork by @axisvictor

Coronado/ 7

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