Virginia Wing / Xam Duo / Tomorrow's Gift
Album: | Tomorrow's Gift | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Virginia Wing / Xam Duo | Added: | Sep 2017 | |
Label: | Fire Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2018-01-23 | Pull Date: | 2018-03-27 |
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Week Ending: | Apr 1 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Mar 4 | Feb 25 | Feb 4 | Jan 28 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Oct 31, 2018: | Being as an ocean
A Tunnel |
4. | Mar 17, 2018: | Music Casserole
Birch Polygon |
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2. | Mar 27, 2018: | Magnetized Toner
Person To Person |
5. | Mar 10, 2018: | Markov Chain Gang
Look Again |
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3. | Mar 24, 2018: | Music Casserole
Good Roads Fair Weather |
6. | Feb 27, 2018: | Magnetized Toner
A Tunnel |
Album Review
DJ Aporia
Reviewed 2018-01-14
Reviewed 2018-01-14
Ambient, jazzy, underwater dream atmospheres and surreal vox, strange beats. Collaboration between UK-based Virginia Wing, a dream pop band, and XAM Duo, a group that is more ambient/drone. One of my favorite new records—
“an all-encompassing new universe of sound with references from the mutated world percussion of Holger Czukay, the transportive saxophone of Pharoah Sanders, and the devotional music of Alice Coltrane.”
Related: Hookworms, Neu, Stereolab, ambient jazz
Favorites: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
1. (20:24) * Birch Polygon—Smoky slowly-unraveling synth, sax and wordless vox, more chimey in second half
2. (3:15) * Yesterday’s Guest—Weird off-kilter vox and instruments, steady beat
3. (4:29) Look Again—Thick droning ambient w/ melted dream vox
4. (2:02) Melon Pan—Brushed chimes and keys, haphazard colorful, voices talking
5. (5:06) * Good Roads Fair Weather—Intense beat and fairytale vox, takes you on a journey w/ some excellent sax, light piano
6. (4:32) ** Person to Person—Kraut beat, sweet emotive sax and electric guitar, One of my fav tracks of the year
7. (7:52) ** A Tunnel—Slow soft, subdued late night, dreamy wandering sax and surreal vox that are spoken
“an all-encompassing new universe of sound with references from the mutated world percussion of Holger Czukay, the transportive saxophone of Pharoah Sanders, and the devotional music of Alice Coltrane.”
Related: Hookworms, Neu, Stereolab, ambient jazz
Favorites: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
1. (20:24) * Birch Polygon—Smoky slowly-unraveling synth, sax and wordless vox, more chimey in second half
2. (3:15) * Yesterday’s Guest—Weird off-kilter vox and instruments, steady beat
3. (4:29) Look Again—Thick droning ambient w/ melted dream vox
4. (2:02) Melon Pan—Brushed chimes and keys, haphazard colorful, voices talking
5. (5:06) * Good Roads Fair Weather—Intense beat and fairytale vox, takes you on a journey w/ some excellent sax, light piano
6. (4:32) ** Person to Person—Kraut beat, sweet emotive sax and electric guitar, One of my fav tracks of the year
7. (7:52) ** A Tunnel—Slow soft, subdued late night, dreamy wandering sax and surreal vox that are spoken
Track Listing
1. | Birch Polygon | 4. | Melon Pan | |||
2. | Yesterday's Guest | 5. | Good Roads Fair Weather | |||
3. | Look Again | 6. | Person To Person | |||
7. | A Tunnel |