NAG (Gold Vinyl) [Vinyl]

中國出生，紐約、上海都是她的落腳處，同時也是結合 doom、龐克帶瞪的布魯克林樂團 Elizabeth Colour Wheel 主唱，該團在廠牌 The Flenser 有發行過作品；Otay:onii 的聲線特色常被人聯想到 Björk、Hope Sandoval 以及 Beth Gibbons 這些女神角色，個人的作品則透過 art-pop、工業、環境穿引至那有如鬼魅般神秘的唱腔，會上癮。

After the highly praised album "冥冥 Míng Míng" released earlier 2021, now we have the great honor to present you the vinyl version of the first full-length album from Otay:onii. With a crossover of art-pop, various layers of atmospheric industrial ambient buildup, and her iconic mystical voice, lets discover the origin of the conception of Otay:onii project.

Previously released in cassette format by Arizona label Shadowtrash Tape Group, now "NAG" is carefully remastered by Cyril Meysson for vinyl with a fascinating sound.


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to otay:

For a complete rid of darkness,
light, too,
rid.

onii




In 2013, I was traveling for the first time to Niagara falls NY. It was once a land of the native American habitancy, but today it became a tourist site that requires tickets for entries. One of the censored performances was an indigenous ritual dance turning into a vaudeville: LED hula hoop performed by some native American descents. I was attracted by a flute playing far away from where I was standing, traced the sound I found a vendor with the flute player. He saw me from a distance and waved his hands. I came close to chat with him, immediately he asked: “May I choose a name for you?” “Sure” I said. “Otayoni! It means wolf. And my name is Koda, which means bear in my language.” Inspired by the name otayoni, I wrote 2 characters named otay and onii(doubled the “i” for binary simulation), constructed a fiction fantasy exploring a world questioning the theory of binary opposition. The native Americans remained living(hope, light), however the reality is penetrated with dark shades of conditions. There an inseparable relationship between the two opposite subjects in the theory of binary opposition such as darkness and light, despair and hope, hell and heaven, etc. [NAG] is an abbreviation for the term “negativity” (self declaimed), at the time I was writing the album, I absorbed polarized sides from people in conversational debates, either black or white is pushed upon, negativity as an aftermath remained more than gradual kept-up solutions.

Negativity is the shadow of hope, the entrance of light lays behind a pitch-black alleyway.

- otay:onii, 2018

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Otay:onii (Lane Shi Otayonii) was born in Haining, China, and has recently been a resident of New York and Shanghai. She is also the vocalist of the punk spit heavy shoegaze band Elizabeth Colour Wheel (US). Her voice is frequently compared to classics such as Janis Joplin, Björk, Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), and Beth Gibbons (Portishead). Her own talent distinguishes itself from these greats as her own voice delivers a sound that ranges from ghostly ethereal to brutally powerful to chillingly dreamy.

Otay:onii graduated from Berklee College of music in 2016, honored twice with “Laurie Anderson Women in Technology” awards. She has also received many other honors and accolades including a bronze prize for “Best Female Vocalist” from Global Music Awards and “Best Sound” from the Audiovisual Arts Industrial Incubator Awards. She was rebellious while in school, frequently testing the limits of the learning environment and continually questioning the institution business model. She said she would “drop out of school if as a foreigner I can stay there without a visa”. Soon after she got the “alien of extraordinary ability” artist visa. She considers the opportunity of getting to know her bandmates and life time friends as the biggest achievement received at school.