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Phenomena

(PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A 2D PRESENTATION)

Kaitlyn's solo debut Euclid (primarily written on a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer) was inspired by her love of mbira music, early electronic music pioneers like Laurie Spiegel, Oskar Sala, and Terry Riley, and euclidean geometry. Each of the first six songs on Euclid were initially structured using euclidean geometry, an idea which Smith explored while attending a class at the San Francisco Conservatory. As Smith explains, "We each chose a 3D shape and assigned our own guidelines to the different components that make up the shape. For example each point of the shape represents a different time signature, each line between the points represents a pitch, each shape within the closed lines represents a scale, etc. And then you play the shape." Despite their heady geometric origins, the songs have a playfulness and warmth that makes them inviting and memorable. In addition to the buoyant grooves of Smith's synthesizers, some of the songs feature wordless vocals, which energize the otherworldly songs, while grounding them with Smith's earthly presence.

She slows things down for the second half of the record, which features a collection of twelve short pieces, Labyrinths I-XII. Originally composed as new soundtracks to old silent films she found online, Smith says the tranquil Labyrinth pieces are "intended to feel like one is walking through a holographic labyrinth and encountering different experiences such as hang gliding, viewing microbes under a microscope, ice fishing in Alaska, and watching glaciers collapse." Despite their brevity, most of these songs feel like mini odysseys, effortlessly casting a cinematic hue on the the listener's world.

Throughout Euclid Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith consistently delivers sonic puzzles draped in a warm Pacific mist. At times these songs feel so alive — like the musical analog to roots growing deeper and stronger, leaves on branches bending towards the light, or the sun peeking over the horizon, briefly igniting the air with a primordial swirl of warm and cool colors.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Sundry

Terror & Healing is a string of mind adventures, ten miniatures of possibilities, a bunch of invisible cities and imaginary beings. It’s a contribution to the exploring and unmapping of reality through imaginative research, making the ears like the fingers of the blind, piecing the multitude back into music.

Terror & Healing is Tsembla’s fourth release after the 2013 LP Nouskaa henget (New Images), Fauna (Ikuisuus, 2011) and Tuplafiesta 7” (Vauva, 2009). Tsembla, aka Marja Johansson, is a Swedish-Finnish artist operating out of Turku, Finland. She’s an active worker in the musical activities of her hometown and a member of the Kemialliset Ystävät ensemble. Arranging sounds from manipulated samples, electronics and objects, Tsembla’s music is rich in detail, riding on waves of warped melodies, fluttering rhythms, abstract voices and mutating textures.

Tsembla : Terror & Healing

Animal Negatives

Sokean sormet

The End of Gold

Disputing With Stray Dogs

Purple Arrows

Love Potion

An Absence Surrounded By Presence

Go Fast As Fire, Return Like Smoke

Sinuhe Bebe

Alejandro

Music by Marja Johansson, with:

Emil Johansson (bass 1/2/6/10)

Niko-Matti Ahti (guitars 6/10)

Antti Tolvi (synthesizer 3)

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Cover art by Marja Johansson with hand lettering by Niko Karlsson

Recorded in Turku 2013-2014

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www.tsembla.com

Tsembla - Animal Negatives

Okapi

Ccïphy

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
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TOUR DATES
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

Refractions

Talking's A Pain

Second track off my new EP 'Ringwoodite' 
OUT NOW
listen/buy here 
evabowan.bandcamp.com

Isolated

“Autumn Rites”, Side B of New Psycho Actives Vol.2 is available now. We know it doesn’t fully feel like Autumn in a lot of places just yet, so play this one outside to try and bring on the crisp.

Autumn Rites - New Psycho Actives

Hypnotized are an experimental psychedelic electronica band from Brighton, UK that formed in after old friends Robbie Wood & Robin White met Paul Whelan in October 2011. They found an instant connection and created Hypnotized (named after a Spacemen 3 track) using what equipment they had around and began making improvised drone jams, soundscapes and intense drum loops. 

Okapi

Hypnotized.

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