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YACHT Announce New Album for DFA Records
YACHT will release Shangri-La for DFA Records on June 21. Shangri-La was produced, mixed, recorded, and performed by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans with frequent collaborator and touring member Bobby Birdman, at the Marfa Recording Company, Jackpot! Studios, and in temporary living quarters in Los Angeles, California.
On Shangri-La, YACHT asserts that the future is a blank slate upon which anything can be imposed and argues that “Paradise is kinetic potential, a latency within us that has been eaten alive by time.” In line with the existing emphasis on self-empowerment in the YACHT philosophy, YACHT’s idea of “Utopia” is personal. YACHT believes that “the only real sustainable paradise is in our minds, and hence creative output can be a tangible piece of the Utopia within each individual.”
The conceptual Eden pictured in the image above was painted by iconic science fiction illustrator Jim Burns, three-time Hugo Award-winner and is featured exclusively for YACHT’s new album.
MP3: YACHT – “Dystopia (The Earth is on Fire)”
Yacht at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, Feb. 19 2010. Jessica Bardosh photo
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Yacht at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, Feb 19 2010
