V.V.I.A. sparked into existence the moment Cretan native Venus Volcanism and Copenhagen-born In Atlas found themselves thrown together in an Athens apartment. Strangers at first, their shared obsessions, frustrations, and longings soon crackled into something undeniable. Their music, a storm of urgency and reflection, pulses with questions of love, society, and existence; rage and reverence tangled together in a beautiful embrace.
What Do We Know shivers through the air like a breath caught between past and present, the first flicker of I Knew You Before We Met, an album shaped by reunion, reckoning, and the restless ache of time. Due late March via Greek indie label Inner Ear Records, it moves like a specter through memory’s dim corridors, where recognition meets uncertainty, where longing collides with loss.
The track sways with the spectral glow of Chromatics, the smolder of Lykke Li, the spectral grace of Chrystabell, and the pulse of Phantogram—a slow-burning seduction of eerie synths and velvet-smooth vocals. The theremin wails like a ghost in the machine, synths swell and shatter, voices whisper and wail. Nostalgia lingers at the edges, but this is no backward glance. Their sound surges, resolute and raw, unafraid of the unknown that waits just beyond the light.
The mesmerizing video for What Do We Know steps into the quiet chaos of longing, where love tilts and teeters, balance lost, balance sought. Two figures circle each other, drawn by the weight of history, repelled by the force of the unknown. Their bodies speak where words fail—reaching, recoiling, surrendering to the inevitable rhythm of what must be. The harder they resist, the more the current pulls.
Desperation spills into movement, raw and restless. Crying, screaming, limbs trembling under the weight of waiting too long, searching too hard. But within that struggle, the body finds release—what begins in discord shifts, unfolds, dissolves into something almost like grace. Relief shudders through, euphoria cracks the surface, the search no longer a burden but a baptism.
Wency Lam and Eden Nathenson embody this fragile exchange, Lam’s choreography etching their ache into movement. Greek filmmaker Lefteris Parasyris, now based in London, directs, edits, and produces, capturing each falter and fall.
“In the bustling cityscape of London, two young women embark on an emotional journey to find each other,” Parasyris explains. “Through vivid vignettes, we follow their turbulent relationship as it shifts from resistance to surrender. Drawing inspiration from fighting sports, the concept blends elements of mixed martial arts and dance. Their connection unfolds like a game, with London’s ever-changing landscapes as their terrain. Like fighters, they must navigate each other’s strengths and vulnerabilities, balancing power with strategy. The more focused and determined they become, the harder their battle grows. Movements transition from gentle and hesitant to playful and intense, culminating in a mix of joy and exhaustion. Yet their “competition” reveals an essential truth: there are no clear winners. The journey itself is the true essence of their bond.”
Watch the video for “What Do We Know” below:
I Knew You Before We Met hums with the ache of reunion, the strange and silent space between what was and what remains. It speaks of friendship stretched thin by time, of bonds weathered but not broken, of love that lingers even as distance carves its cold divide.
In March 2024, V.V.I.A. gathered in a cabin deep in the Danish woods, hands fumbling toward the music, toward each other, toward the thing that had once been effortless. They arrived with no map, no clear vision…just the need to create, to build something together after too many months apart. But the path twisted. Doubt gnawed. The weight of time, of absence, pressed heavy.
What began as an act of creation unraveled into something desperate; a fight to hold on, to rediscover what once felt unshakable. A love story, but not the kind sung in ballads. A search for what was, and what might still be.
Listen to What Do We Know via Spotify or below. Pre-order I Knew You Before We Met here.
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