Vive la Void is the new solo project of Sanae Yamada, co-founder and keyboard
player of Moon Duo. Yamada wrote and recorded the self-titled debut album
over roughly a two-year period, during windows of downtime in Moon Duo’s
substantial touring and recording schedule. The dense, shape-shifting atmospheres
of the seven songs grew out of late-night basement experiments in
the layering of synthesizer tracks, a process that also led to meditations on the
changeable nature of memory and perception. The result is an undulating blend
of ethereal swirl, low end thrumming, and electric crackle, buoyed by Yamada’s
understated but captivating vocal melodies and her striking lyrics.
