Oksana Rodionova started dealing with music when she was living in Estonia and at young age she started playing piano and singing in choruses. Now she lives in Milan, Italy and in the last years she collaborated on vocals with Nicolas Estany, Newclear Waves and lately with Frederick Barbe's Cold Colors (their four tracks tape "Loneliness" will be released soon by Vocoder Tapes). "Possession" is her second release, if we don't count the demo CDr "Dancing Voodoo", released four months after her self titled tape for Aufnahme + Wiedergabe. The new twenty six minutes tape released by Belaten contains six new tracks where Oksana shows her love for analog synth sounds: inside the cover we read that she used the Juno-60, the SH-101, the SP-404SX, the TR-808, the Poly-800, the Microkorg (which isn't really analog), the Electribe M, the Soundmaster SR-88 and the Boss DR-110. Musically she creates minimal synth songs where bass line arpeggios are mixed to dreamy pads and leads. Ideally try to imagine the darkwave sound of 80s French/Belgian bands transposed to an electronic sound palette. She tends to mix vocals and sounds creating a dreamy atmosphere that sometimes turns obsessive (like on "Au Noir"). Lyrics aren't that intelligible, they sound like brushes on her sound canvas and if you like old 4AD sound and modern minimal wave, I think you might dig Xiu. Anyway, you can check the release here http://belaten.bandcamp.com/album/possession-ep