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Ben Vida - Oblivion Seekers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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To be an attentive listener to the world as it stands is to be saturated with language. Speech resounds through nearly every space that features human beings, whether unwanted or desired, mundane or profound. Words sit on the page and in the ear, proliferating endlessly. This superabundance has long been a point of fascination for composer and musician Ben Vida, but over the past several years it has led to a new method of music making that simultaneously exalts and interrogates the primacy of language in our sonic and cultural environments. Gently, playfully, Vida breaks down language's hierarchy of meaning and sound until they exist in egalitarian harmony.Oblivion Seekers is Vida's newest album in this mode of composition, following 2023's collaboration with new music ensemble Yarn/Wire The Beat My Head Hit. Like it's predecessor, the music's focus is on coordinated duets of spoken word in a neutral tone, the variable cadences of the words in motion creating complex internal rhythmic structures. He is joined by the voices of Nina Dante, Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett, and Félicia Atkinson, creating a singular tone that is neither theirs nor his, fluid in it's gender presentation, accent, and diction. The instrumental compositions that form the album's understory have the casual flow of dialogue, conversational but subdued, rarely the agent of change. Here, Vida likewise called upon an accomplished community of players to accompany him Dante on harp, Bennett on bass flute, Matt Bauder and Will Epstein on saxophones, Henry Fraser on bass, Cleek Schrey on violin, and Booker Stardrum on percussion.These elements form lattice-like structures that the text darts in and around, often adhering to downbeats but otherwise moving freely within each lilting phrase. A tranquil, focused temperament persists, enhanced by the reserved cadence of the voices that makes it feel
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    • Genre: Dance and electronic
    • Description: To be an attentive listener to the world as it stands is to be saturated with language. Speech resounds through nearly every space that features human beings, whether unwanted or desired, mundane or profound. Words sit on the page and in the ear, proliferating endlessly. This superabundance has long been a point of fascination for composer and musician Ben Vida, but over the past several years it has led to a new method of music making that simultaneously exalts and interrogates the primacy of language in our sonic and cultural environments. Gently, playfully, Vida breaks down language's hierarchy of meaning and sound until they exist in egalitarian harmony.Oblivion Seekers is Vida's newest album in this mode of composition, following 2023's collaboration with new music ensemble Yarn/Wire The Beat My Head Hit. Like it's predecessor, the music's focus is on coordinated duets of spoken word in a neutral tone, the variable cadences of the words in motion creating complex internal rhythmic structures. He is joined by the voices of Nina Dante, Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett, and Félicia Atkinson, creating a singular tone that is neither theirs nor his, fluid in it's gender presentation, accent, and diction. The instrumental compositions that form the album's understory have the casual flow of dialogue, conversational but subdued, rarely the agent of change. Here, Vida likewise called upon an accomplished community of players to accompany him Dante on harp, Bennett on bass flute, Matt Bauder and Will Epstein on saxophones, Henry Fraser on bass, Cleek Schrey on violin, and Booker Stardrum on percussion.These elements form lattice-like structures that the text darts in and around, often adhering to downbeats but otherwise moving freely within each lilting phrase. A tranquil, focused temperament persists, enhanced by the reserved cadence of the voices that makes it feel
    • Artist: Ben Vida
    • Title: Oblivion Seekers
    • Format: CD
    • Label: Shelter Press
    • Release Date: 05/15/2026
    • Genre: Dance and electronic
    • Number Of Discs: 1
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    • Product Name: Ben Vida - Oblivion Seekers - COMPACT DISCS
    • UPC: 788362412180
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