Moon Duo's Sanae Yamada announces debut album as Vive la Void
Sanae Yamada, keyboardist for Moon Duo, has announced details of her debut album under the name Vive la Void. The self titled album will be released through Sacred Bones on May 4th and you can watch the video for first track Red Rider below.
Yamada also had this to say, “The lyrics were a way of reckoning with my own memories and also of trying to process my reactions to the human situation,” Yamada explains. “I wanted the voice to have a kind of ghostly quality, to emerge from and recede back into the song, or to pass over it like weather. It's one of many layers of sound, which are meant to blend together in such a way that on one listen you might hear one thing, and on another listen you might hear something else, so the music seems to change even as it stays the same. I feel like the movement of life in the sphere of consciousness is this process of trace-leaving,” Yamada reflects. “Wherever we go, whomever we interact with, whatever we touch, we leave and absorb these invisible traces, this residue of memory that lingers. I wanted the sonic textures of this record to explore that state of being there and not there, of something being with you but not tangible.”
The album can be pre-ordered here.
Tracklist:
1. Matter
2. Red Rider
3. Death Money
4. Smoke
5. Blacktop
6. Devil
7. Atlantis
Vive la Void live dates:
March 23 – Portland, OR – Kenton Club w/ Crosss
April 6 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios w/ The Soft Moon
April 14 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown
April 27 – Austin, TX – Levitation Austin
