Valencia, by Bézier

Valencia

by Bézier

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1.	Resurrection 05:22	buy track
2.	Past The Marshes 02:57	buy track
3.	Valencia 04:53	buy track
4.	Reservoir feat Len.Leo 06:40	buy track
5.	Scrupulous 02:07	buy track
6.	Ravel 04:26	buy track

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Bézier returns to Dark Entries with Valencia, a six track rumination on memory, geography, and transmutation. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang’s Bézier 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, Bézier 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 Última Emoción. 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. Bézier 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. Gwenael Rattke designed the sleeve, which features an 80’s punk zine-esque geometric grid pattern mirroring San Francisco street maps.

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released February 18, 2022

Music by Robert Yang
Vocals on Reservoir by Lennard Dilger
Mixed by Reede Reynolds except ’Valencia’ mixed by Mark Pistel,
and ‘Ravel’ mixed by Ian Clark
Mastering by Alex Michalski
Vinyl EQ by George Horn
Design: Gwenael Rattke

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Bézier Berlin, Germany

Bézier’s productions walk the line between soft and hard, emotive and gritty. From their early interest in braindance and IDM to their dance-forward proclivities, Bézier’s influences are wide-ranging, resulting in music that is as carefree as it is relentless.

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Bookings: booking@beziermusic.com ... more

discography

Valencia

Feb 2022
Undulate

Apr 2021
Continuum

Mar 2021
Parler Musique

Mar 2018
Primes

Jul 2017
Telomeres

Jul 2015
Ensconced

Jul 2013
皆 (Mina)

Aug 2015

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