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SLRC 2020

Turn down your thoughts, turn up the music, and simply: breathe and move. 

Light- Dr. Toast

This is the title track of This Is The Kit's album BASHED OUT produced by The National's Aaron Dessner.

This Is The Kit is the much beloved musical project of Kate Stables, born in England and based in Paris, though the heart of their musical community remains in Bristol, UK. Bashed Out is her band’s third album, the result of an extended period collaboration with the record’s producer Aaron Dessner (Sharon Van Etten, Local Natives). Dessner--the co-founder of the Brassland label--is best known for his work in The National and, indeed, the backing band he gathered for Bashed Out combines the talents of This Is The Kit’s touring members (Rozi Plain, Jesse Vernon, Jamie Whitby-Coles), alongside a number of session players drawn from the Brooklyn music scene: Bryce Dessner, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman, The Gloaming), Matt Barrick (The Walkmen) and Ben Lanz (Beirut, The National) all made key instrumental contributions.

As notable as the band, however, is front woman Kate Stables, whose voice hearkens back to the classic singer-songwriter era--her distinctive, cutting vocals up front in the mix. It’s a self-confidence gained since her previous album, 2011’s Wriggle Out the Restless, which made her band a minor institution in the United Kingdom, especially on the radio which has embraced the group. This Is The Kit has received across the board support from BBC 6 DJs Lauren Laverne, Radcliffe & Maconie, Marc Riley, Cerys Matthews, and Mary Anne Hobbs--receiving further play from BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, Jen & Ally, and Phil Taggart. "Wonderful wonderful stuff," said DJ and Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, before arguing their last album should have made the Mercury Prize shortlist.

On Bashed Out, the band continue their musical evolution into a synesthetic, shape-shifting entity—rooted in folk but encompassing elements of psychedelia, alternative rock, and electronic textures and sensibilities. The Line of Best Fit has called Kate's and TITK and "essential fixture of British folk music for the past 10 years…one of a handful of truly innovate songwriters working with the British folk template today."

Bashed Out

This Is The Kit: "Bashed Out" single

One long circular breath in honor of my ancestors that walked this land. In the key of D.  Perfect for Shavasana or any induction of deep, relaxed contemplation. FREE DOWNLOAD.

Didgeridoo for Meditation

Until the Light of Morning: Original Lullabies for Babies and Grown Ups

I'm Not Afraid Of The Dark

For cellist Dave Eggar, the parallels between Mozart and yoga reside in the (sense of) flow and grace we feel in our bodies. “There is a lot of depth to Mozart’s pieces,” he says. “Where Mozart intersects with yoga is in the depth of these pieces corresponding to the depths of your body on an energetic level.” Just as a master musician creates an effortless journey between the phrases of each piece of music, so the yogi is able to accentuate each posture with a natural poise. This idea was the foundation of his new album, The Yoga Sessions:Dave Eggar Quartet: Mozart (Yoga Organix/White Swan). 

The idea of devoting Mozart to a yoga class happened nearly instantaneously between Eggar and producer David Schommer, founder of Yoga Organix and The Yoga Sessions series. “David told me about his yoga series,” Eggar remarks, “and I had been thinking about how to create music suited for the yoga experience. I go to class a lot, and I hear world music, trance, and singer/songwriter material. I thought it would be an interesting concept to record classical music intentioned to function in a Yoga class.” 

Music has been in Eggar’s life since youth. A natural born prodigy, at age three he learned cello and piano, performing on Broadway and at the Metropolitan Opera by age seven. His training includes time at Julliard and Harvard University, but his passion lies in the healing modalities that music creates and in the exploration of musical diversity. That diversity can be understood through his work: As an Artist, he has recorded the celebrated New Age albums, Serenity, Angelic Embrace, Left of Blue), and most recently his newest, Kingston Morning, which featured contributions by reggae legends Luciano and Sly and Robbie. Eggar's diversity extends through his studio work, recording with the likes of COLDPLAY, Amy Lee and Evanescence, the FLUX Quartet, as well as being featured on numerous original scores for film. He has also been workshopping new pieces with and for his karate dojo, blending his knowledge and practice of the martial arts, and recently performing that collaboration at Lincoln Center for the Arts.

Especially inspired by the D major Andante of Mozart's D Major String Quartet, the 'Prussian' (K.575), Eggar went to work with Schommer and longtime collaborator and Violinist Rachel Golub figuring out exactly how this music would move with the format of a yoga class. “The salutations and flow parts were the most natural to pick pieces for,” he says. "One of the interesting things we found was that slowing down minuet movements elicited a very powerful emotional response. We started playing some pieces at half tempo, and it was beautiful. For the piece 'Vishranti' (For Savasana) and the album starter, "Om" piece we were presented an opportunity to create something original, based off of Mozart's melodic structure".

OM Mozart -sample

Synthesizers and a celestial voice. A snippets from our improvisational jam session rehearsal took place in Los Angeles, CA.

HSA Improv Session May 2018 -Ethereal

❤An offering of Love ❤
Dedicated to the Crystal Heart Opening Power of Koh Phangan, Thailand! 

*It's a mix of field recordings I got In Thailand Thunder, Rain, Birds etc.... I also got a cool Thai pan flute called Wot Vot Bamboo Panpipe Flute, The Wot is what you're hearing throughout. 
*I played on a Double Bamboo Flute I got in Lima, Peru from Tito La Rosa's Son, Along with some Tibetan Bolls
*Some Yawanawa Chanting I recorded attending an amazing Yawanawa ceremony. 
*Tete n I on Drums Also I played  a high A and mid A Native American Flute
*The last instrument I played on is the Seperewa

Open Pathways

As I Return

The Rising

Grandmothersphere

the Sufi's say the outer World is the Micro, and that the inner World is the Macro.   There's is more within than can be imagined. 
Easy Now as a title was born from accepting the support of the unseen.

Taken from the Album Unravel

04 Easy Now

Essie Jain is an English singer and songwriter, who has been performing and recording music for over two decades. Her songs have traveled far and wide out into the world and gently weaved themselves into the fabric of people’s lives, daily healing practices and stories. 

Essie often works alongside her husband, guitarist and long term collaborator Patrick Glynn, for both recordings and live performances. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter Opal.

Essie and Patrick are currently writing and recording an album of folk songs together, due for release in early 2025