YACHT - Psychic City (Voodoo City)

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A Message From YACHT About “Psychic City”


The new video for YACHT's "Psychic City (Voodoo City)" is an old-fashioned love story between Good and Evil. It's a romance between white and black, a courtship of light and dark, with the archetypes being played by Jona Becholt and Claire L. Evans of YACHT, respectively.

Two years ago, while traveling through the West Texas desert on tour, YACHT experienced firsthand a paranormal phenomenon called the Marfa "Mystery Lights." This experience was a catalyst, and they soon moved to Marfa, Texas, to work and develop their already-acute interest in religion, ritual, and mystery.

As a result of this research, the "Psychic City" video depicts the band performing religious rituals from all eras of human spirituality. Some will be familiar to viewers -- the eucharist, for example -- while others may remain obscure.

The ceremonies seen in the video are done in honor of the Mystery Lights themselves and their continuing influence on YACHT's creative output. Now that this video has been released to the world, we can all be witnesses to whether or not such rituals do, in fact, work.

The "Psychic City" video was directed by Judah Switzer, who worked with YACHT previously on the video for "Summer Song." It was filmed, partially, in the desert near Mosier, Oregon, on a RED One Digital Cinema camera.

A full bibliography, as well as an annotated list of references and rituals, is available to any interested parties. The YACHT "Catalogue of Inspirations 2007-2009," and The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights: A Guide to Overcoming Humanity and Becoming Your Own God, both supplementary materials to this video, will be available to purchase online and at official YACHT events in the near future.

YACHT wishes to emphasize that this film in no way suggests an affiliation with any religious organization, nor does it aim to rebuke them. It also does not endorse practice of the occult – but it does encourage education on these matters.

"Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries; in fact it is the language not only of mysticism and philosophy but of all of Nature...every form existing in the diversified sphere of being is symbolic of the divine activity by which it is produced."

— Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages