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Aquatic and Other Worlds
Artist
Oksana Linde
ReleaseProduct
Aquatic and Other Worlds
Label
Buh Records
Catalogue Number
BR160
Release Date
March 15, 2022

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'Aquatic and Other Worlds (1983-1989)' marks the debut release proper by Oksana Linde. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants to Venezuela, Oksana was born in Caracas, 1948 and began making electronic music in the early '80s.

With benefit of hindsight, it's quite possible to identify Oksana as Latin America's answer to Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani or Laurie Spiegel. Oksana Linde belongs to the same creative trail started by artists such as Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani or Laurie Spiegel, because like them she knew how to create a personal universe by exploring electronic sounds and to find a place in an eminently masculine environment. Aquatic and other worlds is her first album, which compiles electronic synthesizer pieces recorded between 1983 and 1989. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1948, into a family of Ukrainian immigrants, Oksana Linde's work became known at the beginning of the 80s, coinciding with the emergence of a new scene of Venezuelan electronic synthesizer music, with names such as Ángel Rada, Miguel Noya, Musikautomatika, Vinicio Adames, Oscar Caraballo, Aitor Goyarrola and Jacky Schreiber.

In 1981, at the age of 33, Oksana Linde left her job as a researcher due to health issues and began to devote more time to music and painting. She borrowed a Polymoog synthesizer, then a TEAC open reel tape recorder and a Moog Source. With this equipment she set up her small home studio and began to compose her first pieces around 1983-1984. She eventually expanded her equipment, acquiring a 16-channel mixer, a Roland Tape Echo, a TR-505 drum machine, a Korg M1, and years later a Korg TR-88. Between 1984 and 1986 she recorded more than 30 pieces. Between 1989 and 1996 she continued to produce another 30 pieces, thus accumulating a large archive that has remained unpublished.

Oksana Linde's music can be intensely hypnotic and psychedelic, but also melodic and playful. Linde programs and plays all the instruments and develops melodic lines that are superimposed on loops and sequences, as well as various layers of reverberant and floating sounds that come and go, and always establish a very cinematic narrative, very typical of the tradition of synthesizer music.

The early work of women in electronic music in Latin America is one of those areas that has yet to be worked in depth, but happily research has already started. In Latin America, the introduction of the synthesizer in experimental, progressive and electronic music from the 70s on, is associated almost exclusively with male figures, which is why the work of Oksana Linde gains particular relevance, as she establishes herself as a figure who breaks that hegemony, and whose extensive production in turn places her as one of the most prolific and notable exponents of synthesizer music in Latin America. The work of Oksana Linde and the publication of this album provide an opportunity to get closer to an unexpected universe of sounds, a sign of another history that is yet to be written.

Compiled by Luis Alvarado. Includes notes by Oksana Linde, Ale Hop, and Luis Alvarado.

Available on a Limited edition of 300 copies on vinyl.

Art by René Sánchez.

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 A1 OKSANA LINDE - INTROMERSION 3:31 Buy

    A1 OKSANA LINDE - INTROMERSION

  2. 2 A2 OKSANA LINDE - VIAJE HACIA LA LUZ 5:07 Buy

    A2 OKSANA LINDE - VIAJE HACIA LA LUZ

  3. 3 A3 OKSANA LINDE - PLAYA CARIBE 6:04 Buy

    A3 OKSANA LINDE - PLAYA CARIBE

  4. 4 A4 OKSANA LINDE - BAJO LA LLUVIA 2:14 Buy

    A4 OKSANA LINDE - BAJO LA LLUVIA

  5. 5 A5 OKSANA LINDE - ESTUDIO PARA SINFONIA FOLCLORICA UCRANIANA 3:02 Buy

    A5 OKSANA LINDE - ESTUDIO PARA SINFONIA FOLCLORICA UCRANIANA

  6. 6 B1 OKSANA LINDE - MARIPOSAS ACUATICAS 1:44 Buy

    B1 OKSANA LINDE - MARIPOSAS ACUATICAS

  7. 7 B2 OKSANA LINDE - PSICOCATÁLISIS 2:57 Buy

    B2 OKSANA LINDE - PSICOCATÁLISIS

  8. 8 B3 OKSANA LINDE - DESCUBRIMIENTO 3:01 Buy

    B3 OKSANA LINDE - DESCUBRIMIENTO

  9. 9 B4 OKSANA LINDE - ORINOCO 3:41 Buy

    B4 OKSANA LINDE - ORINOCO

  10. 10 B5 OKSANA LINDE - NENUFAR 2:28 Buy

    B5 OKSANA LINDE - NENUFAR

  11. 11 B6 OKSANA LINDE - RECORDANDO A KITARO 2:24 Buy

    B6 OKSANA LINDE - RECORDANDO A KITARO

  12. 12 B7 OKSANA LINDE - ENSUEÑO 3:41 Buy

    B7 OKSANA LINDE - ENSUEÑO

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