British Columbia-Born Sam Weber Releases Stripped Back Tale of a Near Death Experience on “Void”

Los Angeles’ Sam Weber (originally from British Columbia) is continuing his string of single releases leading up to the release of Clear and Plain, a meditative collection of intuitive songwriting out on August 23rd.

New single, “Void,” is a gently rollicking journey which muses on Weber’s time spent in New Mexico. Its stripped-backed instrumentation (glimmers of piano, guitar, and brushed drums) creates space for the great skies of this southern state to appear in our minds’ eye.

The laidback nature of music in “Void” juxtaposes a story within its lyrics which found Weber coming dangerously close to losing his life on the state’s highways.

“[Void] was written around the time Mal and I went to Bosque Del Apache nature preserve outside of Socorro, NM so they could film and photograph the sandhill crane migration,” Weber explains. 

“The same Socorro that’s known for the Lonnie Zamora Incident, one of the best documented close encounters of the third kind. Driving north on the 25 highway, we were looking at emergency vehicles headed south in the opposite lane. I turned back to our lane and there was a car inside of 100 feet driving toward us on the wrong side of the road. I grabbed the wheel from Mal who was driving and ripped it into the passing lane, and we teetered on two wheels and almost rolled the car and died. I think some of that near mortal energy combined with all the alien energy made its way out of me in ‘Void.’”