Silhouettes by Yama Uba

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.”

An independent label supporting dark genres: post-punk // darkwave // dark electronics // and experimental music // FTP // Oakland, CA