Castlemaine-via-Melbourne musician Louise Terra has been traversing the vast electro and experimental art-pop expanse long before the inception of her near-namesake solo moniker Louise Terra began. Known for her involvement with such Melbourne indie outfits as Sugar Fed Leopards, Sawtooth, Brite Fight and Flying Scribble, Louise Terra has trickled out a string of singles and multimedia collaborations to her name since 2016, most notably with film-maker Rachel Feery in the production of a virtual-reality music video for her single, ‘Nature Calling’ in 2019. Now, the ever-evolving songwriter and producer is excited to soon deliver her anticipated debut EP, Follow the Moon Into The Ocean on Wednesday 14 April and reveal a third and final tease from the collection with her new single and accompanying video, ‘Yuu’.

Out today, ‘Yuu’ rounds out a trio of singles lifted from Terra’s EP, following in the wake of previous tracks ‘Nature Calling’ and ‘J.B’. Upbeat and playful, ‘Yuu’ exemplifies Louise Terra’s keen ear for bent sonic textures, lush swirling vocals and intricate rhythms, taking cues from left-field electronica and dream pop, gravitating towards the personal and transcendental. Directed, shot and edited by local filmmaker Jeannie Brown, the accompanying video pays homage to surrealist and experimental abstract cinema, following Louise through milky bathtubs, fields of windswept grass, and pitch black forests clad in stunning costuming by Alice Edgeley. The result opens up a whole new world of wonder to escape to when listening to the subdued tones of ‘Yuu’.

“The making of Yuu was a labour of love. Louise and I realised early on we both possessed a healthy enthusiasm for surrealistic visual and temporal distortions in art. This provided a stepping stone for what became a series of playful experimentations both on set and within the editing process. Not all experiments made the final cut but all were invaluable collaborative, joyous discoveries in their own right. The lengthy delays in scheduling provided a means for ideas to mature and unfold of their own accord.” – Jeannie Brown

WATCH 'YUU' VIDEO HERE

“The clip for ‘Yuu’ has been years in the making. In late 2019 Jeannie and I pulled the concept together, and after a few months of organising and storyboarding we planned to shoot on the first weekend Melbourne went into lock down for 2020. Over the next eight months not much happened on the clip front. I moved out of Melbourne and into a gorgeous rental house in Castlemaine. When Jeannie and I were able to reunite again and start production, there were still restrictions in place so we couldn’t access any of the Melbourne locations we had planned. We needed to adapt to the uncertainty and simplified the concept so we could still work on it even if restrictions were to change again. We decided to shoot it in and around where I live in Castlemaine. The shoot was really creative and fun; we just had a lot of curiosity and we weren’t too attached to the outcome. It helps that Jeannie and I have been friends for a long time and I really trust her visual art aesthetic.”
– Louise Terra

From choir-girl beginnings, to a teenager obsessively listening to The Pixies, through to studying a theatre degree only to graduate and start fronting her own indie bands, Louise Terra has feasted on a steady diet of experimental pop and electronic music since her musical beginnings in the late Nineties. Steeped in a rich set of influences, such as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Enigma and Susumu Yakota, the sounds on her upcoming EP Follow the Moon Into the Ocean present a shimmering meeting place between meditative and danceable. Drawing on her dreams, psyche and memories, the songs on the EP are self-reflective though somewhat mercurial. Get ready for Louise’s EP release this April.

Upcoming Louise Terra Launch Shows
Saturday 27 March
Castlemaine Fringe - Market Building Steps
Performing with visuals by Jim Coad
Time: 10:15pm
Free Entry

Saturday 17 April
Cafe Gummo, Thornbury
with Zellen & Truth Coming Out Of Her Well
Free Entry
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‘Yuu’ is out now via Ditto
iTunes / Apple Music / Spotify / Bandcamp

‘Yuu’ credits
Written and produced by Louise Terra
Vocals recorded by Jesse Sullivan
Mixed by Timothy Johnson and Mastered by Becki Whitton

‘Yuu’ video credits
Shot, directed and edited by Jeannie Brown
with assistance from David Berka and Andrew Markham

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