Here's a proper recording of my ALL ORIGINAL unreleased set on July 30th at the Vancouver Dyke March celebration at good old Grandview Park on commercial drive.

Recorded, mixed and edited by yours truly <3

All original acoustic splendour for your hearing pleasure.

Enjoy lovelies, and BLESS!!!

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tracklist
1:12 - smell of you
5:34  - expectations
11:22  - complications
16:25  - too close
20:36  - WYWMB (sorry)
26:16  - comin down
31:14  - what you want

Live Acoustic Set At The Vancouver Dyke - July 2022

A hypnotizing array of frequencies, sounds, medicine songs and more.

Channelled and curated live on Ableton with my RC-505, voice, laptop and Spirit!!!

Hosted by the wonderful Synergy Ecstatic Dance

vocals, percussions and more by myself and the wonderful @babashasha 

recorded, mixed & mastered by yours truly, kaya ko ; audio enginerd in training <3 

may this medicine find you well and I pray for a you to have a blessed journey with it.

with all my love and gratitude.

thank you for bearing witness.

~ kaya ko

sweeetsoul soundbath series vol I - synergy ecstatic dance - feat. Babashasha

"what you want"

is a one of a kind, tasteful blend of bass, breathing, birds and full body harmony.

completely self produced, recorded and mixed, this song comes from a very deep, personal and intimate place that exists within my sacred self.

A place that I can sometimes forget to visit...

A place from which all my creations come.

This song is a reminder that that juicy, self loving wholeness is mine to feel. And in releasing this song, I am reclaiming my sovereignty, my pleasure, my power and my voice. Knowing that I need not seek outside of myself to feel this feeling.

I invite you all to take a minute of silence at the end of this song, to think about or even speak out loud what it is that you want to create, receive and experience in your Life right now. What do you desire to welcome into your field?

bless and thanks so much for listenning

<3 <3 <3

what you want

"start somewhere" is a sweet and special piece that is, although old, still close to my heart.

I made this project between April and June, when I first started studying  at sae institute in north van.

An endearing and authentic body of work, this demo ep is like a portal into the past. Nostalgic and light-hearted with earnest poetics and soulful melodies. start somewhere is exactly what it sounds like, a landmark, a gateway sitting somewhere near the beginning of my journey into audio engineering and music production.

This is my FIRST multiple-track, self-produced, entirely self engineered project to hit the stream waves... It's been a long time coming but this is still a very exciting moment for me. :)

On the journey of making these songs, I didn't properly save my files while transferring from the school computer onto my hard drive. Sadly, my stems were lost, rendering me unable to properly dial in the mixes of each track. After holding on, and hoarding these songs for long enough, tortured by my inability to "fix" them, I've decided to put them out as is. I've added as much love and attention as I presently can to each track and I hope you can feel it when you're listening...

Allowing myself the space to put out something that I'm not 100% satisfied with is a practice in embracing imperfection and life's constant reminder to allow things to be as they are. I relinquish myself from the clutches of perfectionism and release my inner critic towards details that the average listener will never fixate upon.

It's all about the feeling with this one, so let me know how it lands. 

Love you all.

Thank you.

Bless.

~ kaya ko

gone again

being seen

stay In D minor

my time

flaunt is an offering to the Feminine Principle. The Divine Goddess within each of us that permeates the entirety of this Earth and all of her habitants.

It is a reclamation of our sacred birthright to Shine brightly and be a light in the darkness of our day and age. Flaunt is an act of rebellion, in a world that is governed by systems made to crush us down. 

Flaunt is your reminder to be proud, to own your unique energy and gifts and to keep having faith in the goodness behind it all.

flaunt

"Don't Have to Wait" is a song I wrote, on and off since last summer. The original rendition is acoustic on guitar and voice. This version is one that we recorded from LumiNation home studio and Avilia took home to play with. I've never hear my voice vocal chopped before and I really enjoy it! More versions to come....

Don't Have To Wait - Avilia & K.vox

This is a quick demo of an ongoing project composed of "Tincture" by Feral Fauna and "Swoon" by Rising Appalachia. Voice and Guitar by myself, recording and production by Luminous the Creator and Bass by Evan Way at LumiNation Studios. Full track is brewing...keep an eye out!
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Evan Way - Check out this crazy talented, young songwriter, producer an dall around musician's music on his channel! --> 
https://soundcloud.com/user-964568072

Follow Luminous the Creator, producer and founder of LumiNation Studios on souncloud and check out his tracks on our site! -->
https://soundcloud.com/andrewluminous
https://www.lumination.ca/

My Medicine (Mash Up Cover) - Feral Fauna and Rising Appalachia

Found some old recordings of semi-completed music I made when I was in school. 

Totally raw and unfinished, but I gotta put it out into the world. For the people and the archives.
Don't mind the lack of mixing and mastering!

Bless
Love yourselves out here, babes.

Lover (My Own) - UNMIXED

>>> SORRY FOR THE FEEDBACK GUYS!!!<<<
Created, Composed and Performed Nov 28, 2018

This is a raw recording of one of my older songs. Just putting some raw music out there for peeps to get a hear on.

Voice/Guitar/Violin: Kaya Ko
Piano: Lynn Stewart
Electric Guitar: Brendan Steele
Drums: Ian Cardona
Bass: Zach Wong
Trumpet: John Korsrud

Halfway (live) - Kaya Ko feat. Future Ensemble Band of VCC

A little saucy, slow rockin, hard hitting old track for your auditory enjoyment.
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Written by moi
Parts composed collaboratively, thanks to the skills and adaptability of my peers!
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Guitar/Vocals: Kaya Ko
Bass: Pierce Kingan
Drums: Ian Cardona 
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Recorded Live at Vancouver Community College (Music Program, but of course!) via ZOOM recorder.

>>> Cover Photo by the amazing 
Daniel J. Collins
>>> Featuring incredibly otherworldly, dancer/teacher/choreographer/facilitator/Goddess Homegirl, 
Alyssa Amarshi (a.k.a.Luscious Brown/Dancehall Krishna)

Rough Hands (live) - Kaya Ko

This is an original song that came to me about a week before my performance at the Museum of Anthropology on International Womxn's Day.

With all of the weight of the world tumbling down, it can be hard to keep your head above the Water. I believe in making Space for the Weight. Making Space for the pain and fear that can arise through all of the madness of the Human Experience. I believe in taking that pain and turning it into something beautiful.

So that we may in turn let go of fear and Make Way for Love.

Blessings for your earholes.
Stay tuned for the updated recording...

Scared - (Acoustic Version)

Hi!

I'm Kaya. I'm a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised on Turtle Island, known as Vancouver, BC. Both classically trained and self-taught, my musical style ranges from folk, RnB to Hip Hop, trap and EDM. 

My aim as an artist is to create honest and real music from the depth of my Human Experience, in hopes that those who need the Reflection will Resonate. I'm basically just another human living life. With every high and low, I do my best to feel into what is there for me to learn and transmute that into Songs to Release stories that may otherwise get stuck. The alchemizing of my feelings into music honestly heals me, and I hope it can help you heal you too! bless.

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