YAKECAN: Viégas’ raw flood soundscape

Viégas channels RS floods into YAKECAN, twisting Brazilian roots into a brutal cry of Anthropocene collapse and endless violence.The devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul fuel every beat of YAKECAN, Viégas‘ latest album. It dives deep into Brazilian music foundations — Afro-diasporic, Indigenous, and Iberian — without nostalgia.

Distorted roots in collapse era

These influences pulse as raw, fractured material. YAKECAN mirrors today’s Brazil: structural violence, symbolic void, perpetual breakdown.Flood scars run through it all. A horizonless world where disasters define the Anthropocene daily life. Exhausted sounds and choking rhythms evoke the storm.

Violence isn’t just a theme. It’s the raw force shaping unstable textures and endless breaks.

YAKECAN nods to the subtropical cyclone that hit southern Brazil. It embodies recurring ruin, a force that lingers and spreads.

Full tracklist

All tracks by Viégas:YAKECANTREMETREMESEMPRE FOI HOSTILKARKARÁYA’LUZIATUMTUYUTÍPARTE O EQUINÓCIORASGO MEU PULSOVENID A SOSPIRARKHAMSINHADEANOPhoto: Press release