Silhouettes, by Yama Uba

Silhouettes

by Yama Uba

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12" Black vinyl with full color cover and two full color inserts with lyrics in English and Japanese.

Album cover front and back designed by Pearl Thompson. Interior designed by Akiko Sampson. Photos by Michael Daddona.

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Comes with two 6-page full-color booklets with lyrics in English and Japanese.

Album cover front and back designed by Pearl Thompson. Album interior designed by Akiko Sampson. Photos by Michael Daddona.

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Silhouettes album art, by Pearl Thompson on a white cotton T-shirt.

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Yama Uba duo T-shirt with light pink print on black cotton.

Original photo by Najee Tobin.

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1.	Disappear 04:31		buy track
2.	Shapes 03:32	lyrics	buy track
A mess of all my selves Drips to the floor And down the walls Morph and shift Step through my skin Break down to build again Shapes You watch me change Take all my pain Oh, Shapes You watch me change Take all my pain Oh, Shapes I die within to live again In all my shapes Shapes Shapes Let you in a labyrinth Just to find a monster within Can you see me? Run from me? Can you love me? What I hide is the thing inside Amorphous and hungry Unprepared, we fight back tears On the daily Do you hate me? Shapes Shapes You watch me change Take all my pain Oh, Shapes You watch me change Take all my pain Oh, Shapes I die within to live again In all my shapes Shapes Shapes You watch me change Take all my pain Oh, Shapes You watch me change Take all my pain Oh Shapes I die within to live again In all my shapes Shapes Shapes Shapes I die within to live again In all my shapes Shapes Shapes Shapes
3.	Shatter 02:57		buy track
4.	Facade 03:48		buy track
5.	I'm in Love With a German Film Star 03:56	info	buy track
6.	Isolation 03:45		buy track
7.	Laura 04:13		buy track
8.	Angel 05:30		buy track

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A strong debut album, ‘Silhouettes’ captures the shifting perspectives of its five-year writing period and the emergence of Yama Uba’s uniquely crafted sound. With Akiko Sampson's charismatic vocals and rumbling bass combined with Winter Zora's sweeping guitar and soaring saxophone over velvet synthesizers over synthpop beats, Yama Uba makes several nods to their post-punk and darkwave predecessors while creating a sound entirely their own. Throughout each track, Yama Uba emerges as a songwriting unit able to capture the complexities of the human spirit, as fragile as it is powerful, as it experiences its own evolution. Akiko states, ‘‘As a whole, 'Silhouettes’ is about personal transformation and self-discovery, and is a reckoning with the power of time.”

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released January 24, 2024

Akiko Sampson: Vocals, bass, synthesizers, drum programming
Winter Zora: Vocals, guitar, saxophone
Additional percussion on “Disappear,” “Shapes,” “Facade,” “Isolation,” “Laura,” “Claustrophobia” by Charlie Vela
Additional percussion on “Shatter” by Michael Daddona
All songs written by Akiko Sampson and Winter Zora
except “I’m in Love With a German Film Star,” by B. Gogan, C. Timperley,D. Aagar, R. Williams
Lyrics for all songs by Akiko Sampson except “Claustrophobia” by Akiko Sampson and Winter Zora, “Isolation” by Winter Zora, and “I'm in Love With a German Film Star” by Barbara Gogan
All songs recorded by Akiko Sampson at Psychic Rat Studios except “I’m in Love With a German Film Star” and “Angel,”recorded by Michael Daddonaat Zoo Labs Studios

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