Villa Vide is Orson Wald’s enigmatic coldwave project. An all time new-wave adept, he played his first gigs in a band relying on a smoke machine so much that they would usually totally disappear from stage. Evanescence, fascination, mystery, fleeting reminiscences, spleen, desolation, anger, depression, disappearance, empty minimal architecture, liminal spaces, danger, toxic relationships… all of this infuses his music and lyrics.
Made cohesive by a strong identity, the world of Villa Vide conveys an extremely wide range of dark influences ranging from immaterial etherealwave to harsh and explosive EBM, with all the styles of the spectrum in between. Guitars of all sorts and electronic machines have an equal part in the instrumentations. Some piano solo pieces are also present for cold and minimalist meditative moments…
Although the name “Villa Vide” has been floating around for quite some time the one man project only really started in 2022 as Orson Wald started singing for the first time and released the first official single “Escape”.
Before Villa Vide, Orson Wald played on stage with the cold shoegaze/noise band Vortex from Paris, and recorded industrial ambient demos with their leader Nico Guerrero, who he still plays live with to this day. He also collaborated with the italian darkwave band Les Jumeaux Discordants, writing a piano piece for their “Les chimères” album (“Alla Musa, All’Iniziato”), and to the industrial-gothic-darkwave project NG/Northgate during the time of its “More pain” album (he composed the song “Strange hypnogents” and played guitars on a couple of other songs). He played live with NG in Milan, Monza and Paris.
