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Kayla Cohen, a.k.a. Itasca, is a folk guitarist and songwriter from New York State. She has released several small press CD-rs and cassettes over the past five years, and began recording as Itasca after a move to Los Angeles in 2012. She records at home, taking inspiration from the fringes of LA's open space and natural land.

On Itasca’s latest full-length, Unmoored By The Wind, Kayla Cohen achieves new levels of clarity and expansiveness. Where 2012’s Grace Riders on the Road reveled in homemade intimacy, Unmoored By The Wind opens to the world, reaching a timeless, near-baroque yearning; each of these eleven tracks burns with a unique vision. At once soft-spoken and virtuosic, Cohen’s fingerpicking mesmerizes, laying gauzy groundwork for vocal work David Keenan rightfully cited as “courtly…dazzling.” It’s a spacious set of songs, one you can wander into, flowing seamlessly between wistful interludes a la Bob Desper and fully-fledged verses of powerful, often beguiling imagery. “Two male shapes are standing/ Shrouded in white cloth” sings Cohen on “Nature’s Gift,” with a plaintive candidness that echoes Sibylle Baier. “They’re looking at me/ Sort of smiling/ Seems as if I’ve called them here.” Cohen’s voice has a windburnt quality reminiscent of Lal Waterson or Collie Ryan, but it’s tempered with sweetness, and on songs like “Colt In Hiding” she realizes an angelic luster. More than ever before, though, Cohen’s confident singing is laid bare; vocals ride on top of arrangements, taking their rightful place in the forefront. The effect is arresting. Cohen has achieved new levels of clarity, while staying true to the seductive ghostliness that has come to characterize her sound.

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Itasca - After Dawn

Heute ist mein tag

Rød bic

You (The Feral Human Thunderstorm)

decided to make a re-edit version for the spring, even though this song is ideal for the fall. original version found here: https://soundcloud.com/david-attic/turning

ⓣⓤⓡⓝⓘⓝⓖ (spring forward edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3sPowchT9s

Lyrics: 
Passing long hours
Trying to work out what I want to say
What's my meaning, what's my angle?
What's in my way?
And it doesn't come easy

But when it comes
It fills me up
It knocks me over
Cos I can finally see
What's in front of me
With real clarity

Letting time go by
Hoping that you see things 
The same ways as me
Because we each percieve the world
A little differently
But it doesn't come easy

But when it comes 
It fill us up
It knocks us over
Cos we can finally see
See each other
With real clarity

4. On My Chest

Froth (band)

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