x/o – Chaos Butterfly

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12″ Aqua vinyl of Chaos Butterfly by x/o

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An epic tale of catharsis and self-actualization explored through metamorphosis. It is a free-falling kaleidoscopic journey into a beautiful nightmare, both cataclysmic and tender. Expanding on the themes present in their first EP Cocoon Egg, the album builds a parallel world from a different perspective.

Throughout the voyage, x/o pulls apart and collides masculine and feminine tropes both conceptually and musically by utilizing contrasts between soft and hard, internal and external, calmness and anger, loud and quiet. This system of symbolism and influences reveals patterns of duality.
Chaos Butterfly playfully resists easy categorisation, fusing breakbeats, with elements of solemn ambience, distorted metal, and trip-hop catharsis, with inspiration from artists such as Yoko Kanno, to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony as well as Deftones, Massive Attack, Orbital, and Aaliyah.Colliding disparate but interconnected influences, x/o references Playstation’s Final Fantasy world-building, Fight Club, the half-yoma warriors in the anime Claymore, as well as the real legends of the Vietnamese Trưng Sisters. 

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released April 4, 2022

Written, Produced, Performed, Recorded and Mixed by Veron Xio
Bus Mixing: Jan Urbiks
Stem Mastering: Enyang Urbiks
Design + Art Direction: venom–s studios
Illustration: daniel stroh, NicoSaba, and VVXXII.
Photography: Katrin Braga.

Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia.

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