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High Desert - ALL, full arrangement

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Time Will Tell (full arrangement)

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Rest Child (Chant)

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Keep Your Mind on Love (chant)

Designed to be improvised over. Why are you here?
Originated on election day 2016 as a group of musicians meditated on why we were gathering, and what our work is on this planet.

We Are Here 3 Parts Harmony (chant)

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Surrender (Stop Struggling) - ALL

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Surrender - Live Teach at Los Angeles SongFest 2019

A ballad about leaving an abusive relationship; also a love song to my first car <3 This version of Prayer Wheel was recorded and produced by Phil Surkis and is labeled “Draft 2.” I’m not sure how many drafts he ended up making, but this is the latest one I received before losing contact with him. It is the most complete recording I have of this song, so I am sharing it here despite the “draft” status. We are all works in progress, after all.

Melody, Lyrics, Guitar and Vocals: Kaitie Ty Warren ©2014
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Prayer Wheel (Draft2)

Inspired by gentle vocal warm ups with a shruti box (a common practice for myself as well as my friend Heather Houston when she warms up her choirs.) I sang this alone on my looper for the first time, as an improv and gift for my own Living Room Choir members, during pandemic isolation times. Please feel free to play with the layers and use it as an opportunity to stretch, warm up, and greet each other. It's easier to end it in person; I usually end taking out layer by layer until the last phrase heard is "It's the best." Visit https://thelivingroomchoir.com/its-the-best/ for more.

It's The Best (blend Live Looper And Recorded)

Elena Smith, Charlie Rosen and I (all cousins) arranged and recorded this in memory of our Grandfather, Chet Lappen. Recorded and produced by John Reid. With love. 

Man Of The Hour cover, 3 female voices

Just me and a guitar and a voice memo app at 2am. Enjoy. 

Ray LaMontagne's "Burn" cover- female voice

My friend and fellow Muppet Jessica DeBruin and I made ourselves loopy with giggly renditions of "26 Miles Across the Sea" (Santa Catalina is a'waitin' for me) based on the weekend we were having. Matt's Island, Buffaloni and Chips, Salted Watermelon and more inside jokes made their way into this silly little musical fest, recorded in the backseat of the car outside the Botanical Garden while Matt (pictured, with his Island) bobbed his head in approval.

What Happened To Catalina? 26 Miles Across the Sea, Santa Catalina original/cover

Semi Charmed Life - one girl and a ukulele

This is my 2025, pale-skinned American take on the 1950s incredibly powerful song Senzeni Na? A Xhosa struggle song from South Africa, Senzeni Na? spoke deeply to me but I always thought it would be interesting to sing it from the “other side”… that is, not “what have we done to deserve this” but “holy sh*t what destruction have we brought upon our earth and fellow kin and selves”. A cry of mourning and horror and reality, for the descendants of colonizers and occupiers to sing. 

I was, to be honest, surprised that the song emerged containing a hopeful (but not resolved) ending. The first two layers are in direct reference to the great Senzeni Na song. 

No better time to release this song than on the eve of Thanksgiving (thankstaking, day of mourning, whatever you choose to call it.)
May we all move closer to reality, and thus closer to healing.

This song is designed for Community Singing. Visit LivingRoomChoir.com or follow me on Patreon.com/KaitieTy for more.

What Have We Done?

This song (essentially a structured improv- no two round have gone the same) was created in response to a prompt: “just before dawn.”

I was thinking about how birds sing just before dawn, supposedly to let each other know they’re still here - that they made it through the night. 

And I was thinking about the images I was seeing in the news and social media of bombed children separated by rubble from their parents and villagers searching for each other… are you still alive? I’m still alive. 

The only guidelines for singing this song in a group is to bring your part in with space in between to listen for others. It is designed for community singing, for connection after a period of darkness and separation. 

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I'm Still Alive (version1.2)

My rearrangement of Ysaye Maria Barnwell's Arrangement of Stephen Stills' Find The Cost of Freedom, written during the Vietnam War.

Cost Of Freedom

Originally a poem I wrote called "Alternative Bedtime Prayer" my friend and fellow musician Azarius turned it into a beautiful piece. I'm singing backup. 
•
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Universe shall take
My Soul, so gently, lovingly,
Back to where I’m meant to be

To the Stars from whence I pulled away
To have been here today
May my Atoms disassimilate 
And journey off, to find new mates

May I find myself, alive and well
With memory of this short, sweet spell
On Earth, On Earth
As it is in Heaven

Amen. 
•

Also: Azarius calls me Billy.
Also: this is a photo he took of me in the woods one day. 
We teach each other to pray.

Billy's Prayer

Soul Portrait developing original melody on harmonium meets the ancient Tibetan chant Om Ah Hum - opening the crown/third eye/throat/and heart chakras respectively. This once-off first attempt ever recording my harmonium and blending it with the chant, it turned out to be a gift worth sharing.

Harmonium: Soul Portrait & Om Ah Hum

Chag Pesach Sameach, chaverim shelee! Sharing a mashup I made from two songs of my friend (Jewish musician, singer-songwriter and song leader) Mikey Pauker's songs as a Passover gift to all of you. Feeling the ancestors and my people today...Glad you are all in my tribe of the heart. Thanks to Mikey for letting me play with the medicine he shares in the world.
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Mikey Mashup

Dropped in all at once, this one, which means it came from Somewhere Out There in the cosmos, and I was just the channel. It appears as unaltered as possible. Visit www.thelivingroomchoir.com/surrender for teaching tracks.

Surrender

Kaitie’s highly musical neurodivergent brain feels best when working with multi layer harmonies, body rhythms and/or polyrhythms. She vocalizes primarily but also plays several instruments, leads community singing groups, is a minister, writer, cartoonist and speaker. She is the founder and leader of Living Room Choir (part of the Ubuntu Choirs Network) and is a well known member of the global community singing movement. She has built vocal work for folks with Parkinson’s, and a song library to catalog the song she teaches, which public can access many parts of. You can follow her on Patreon.com/KaitieTy for more and to support.

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