Mayako Xo - XO

Mayako Xo - XOMayako Xo is the solo music project of Sara Gernsbacher based in Los Angeles. XO by Mayako Xo is an exercise in singing to multiple selves, non human, past and future, converging in one looping currant. It is a structure of sparse layers, new age no wave of post punk femme, notes repeating. Guitar phrases asking and answering each other over and over, each time though somehow distinct, with a voice sewn through and around the middle. Recorded and

or ultimately no medium at all except for perhaps the atmosphere we inhabit

the music is produced by Chris Stein of Blondie in collaboration with Fab 5 Freddy

this 50th Anniversary Edition is a must-have addition to your vinyl collection

Now it's back on Clear Vinyl

It's an apposite curtain-raiser for an album that can encompass pounding techno (Human Touch)

Roby's soft cadence echoes atop spiraling air pockets of rhythmic production

'On The Wagon' (as covered by the Ronettes)

and the grind of touring and pitfalls of increased visibility influenced her music as much as her spirit

a narrative emerges amidst the racket

when Norwegian scholar Sophus Bugge claimed it was a 17th century fabrication

but it obviously contains a double meaning as well

somewhere you'll want to spend a while