Bezier

Valencia

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• 1 Resurrection
• 2 Past The Marshes
• 3 Valencia
• 4 Reservoir (feat Len.Leo)
• 5 Scrupulous
• 6 Ravel

Bezier returns to Dark Entries with Valencia, a six track rumination on memory, geography, and transmutation. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang?s B?zier project has appeared on Dark Entries many times over the last decade, most recently with the 2018 LP Parler Musique. Says Yang, ?What started as a project to investigate the love of the sound and scenery while living in San Francisco quickly developed into a passionate search for interlocking melodies and driving rhythms.' On Valencia, Bezier invokes twinned places. The Valencia Street of San Francisco is channeled, which was the center of the city?s vibrant new wave scene in the 1980s. But also echoed is Valencia, Spain, and La Ruta del Bakalao aka La Ruta Destroy, the Spanish clubbing scene throughout the 80s and 90s famed for its aggressive and synthetic sounds. Valencia is a darker record for Yang, exploring themes of submission and catharsis with nods to SF?s gay leather bars of the 70s and 80s. The high BPM salvos of 'Valencia' and ?Scrupulous? capture the frantic energy of Bakalao and Valencian wave acts like ?ltima Emoci?n. Elsewhere Yang mines the dreamy space disco and Hi-NRG sounds they?re known for, like on the brooding ?Past the Marshes? or the anthemic 'Reservoir', which features their partner Len.Leo on vocals. Bezier deftly navigates past and present, light and dark, pain and pleasure, the stasis of memory and the flux of time. Valencia was mastered by Alex Michalski, with EQ for vinyl done by George Horn. Gwena?l Rattke designed the sleeve, which features an 80?s punk zine-esque geometric grid pattern mirroring San Francisco street maps. Also included is a 5x7 postcard with notes. The eleven tracks on Tree Spirits display From Nursery to Misery?s signatures: chunky drum machine patterns, playfully eerie synth melodies, and Tina and Gina?s stark, nursery rhyme-esque vocals. The lyrical content ranges from dreary to grim; they explore existential despair, sexual violence, and death through an acerbic, feminist lens. Inspired by the Bladerunner soundtrack and 4AD, Lee?s production is alternatingly warm and icy, like a glacier wrapped in analog tape hiss. Stylistically, the tracks range from charmingly miserable synth pop on 'Cry Me', to the clanging rhythmic industrial of 'The Daily Raper', and even a haunting flute driven instrumental with 'A Summer Morning Trip Through The Misty Woods'. From Nursery to Misery are a pure expression of the British DIY aesthetic, which is made all the more captivating by the band?s own confession that they were just trying to make pop music! All songs on Tree Spirits were remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The cover art by Eloise Leigh features a photograph of the twins posing dramatically in the woods. Included is a 12-page booklet with lyrics, liner notes, and an archival interview with the band, as well as a bonus 1.25' square pin featuring the band?s logo.