postmoderndisco chronicles the life cycle of a blooming romance in the video for her new single Anthesis — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The latest release from the Toronto-born, Valencia-based lo-fi electronic artist, Anthesis offers a metaphor for life through the lens of a relationship that flowers and wilts. “The song is a musical soundscape written during a period of writer’s block and struggle with perfectionism,” postmoderndisco says.
She began writing Anthesis in 2015, shortly after the release of her debut EP Chasing Memories. However, as the growth process goes, she ran into some hiccups and roadblocks with the composition of the transformative time. “Anthesis first began as a place to experiment with creating textures by sampling and manipulating acoustic instruments (as heard at the start of the song), blending them until they were no longer identifiable,” she said.
The creation of Anthesis parallels life. postmoderndisco said the tune took eight years to create. She ran into speedbumps with the mixing process, so she enlisted some producer friends from Berklee to catalyze the production. She also turned to her classical music experience for inspiration, and studied bands that fuse electronic and alternative genres, such as Purity Ring and Son Lux.
The tune opens with billowing production, introducing the first stage of a flower’s life. Throughout the next several seconds, windy synth percussion wisps through the opening, and a haunting, ethereal vocalist lends light hums and shoegaze lyrics to the dynamic track. Around the one-minute mark, light crescendoing keys erupt into a beat drop filled with shoegaze sounds and triplet percussion beats. Haunting flutes back the otherworldly vocals throughout the track as postmoderndisco relays a story about a flower’s delicate yet wondrous life.
The song is a “powerful and emotive song that inspires listeners to embrace their personal growth and overcome their internal struggles,” she says. “The use of flower blooming as a metaphor for personal growth and the invitation to enter a different dimension through music create a unique and engaging experience that aims to resonate with many people. Anthesis leans on its ethereal layers of haunting vocals, soaring strings, and downtempo beats, postmoderndisco wishes to give listeners a different dimension and space to escape from the busyness of life and be rejuvenated.”
postmoderndisco is a second-generation Chinese-Canadian musician. She meshes her Western upbringing with her Chinese heritage to influence her discography and strives to serve as a representative Asian female voice in music. To enhance the ambient atmosphere, she incorporates various instruments into live performances, like French horn, violin, flute, and clarinet. Currently, postmoderndisco is pursuing her master’s degree in screen scoring at Berklee College of Music.
Watch the video for Anthesis above, hear more from postmoderndisco below, and find her on her website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
