This is a live performance - featuring 3 songs. The first two are done on my loop pedal, both of which I had never played looped (the second one I have only ever done on synth keyboard, but improved the bass line/percussion. The 3rd song I had only played once when I wrote the music for it.

Basically i do an improve live set using an acoustic guitar, loop pedal, shakers, and a wooden stick on the body of my guitar as percussion. Turned out alright I think. Enjoy my first live upload!

Live V-Lounge April 28th 2011

This is a live radio gig dating back to November 21st, 2010 at the very beginning of my professional music career. The lovely Ali Lopez @ CFUV in Victoria BC gave me my ''big shot'' and I adore her for her talent and insight.

This download of the podcast includes 5 original, acoustic songs (unplugged and unlooped with no fx) in their original incarnations. It is kind of fun to see how my music has shifted, progressed and changes since then. Following, there is a live interview with Ms. Lopez.

The songs and song names have actually changed and are listed by their current names (but in their original forms):

Scream my Name
So in Love
Stats Song
20 Years from Now
Speak in Skin

Hope you enjoy this ''way back attack''

Back Alley Jams - November 21, 2010

This song is about loss. Mournful vocals, raw guitar and bass - each one in a separate track for audio aesthetics, but all 3 were one-shot only recordings to keep it unpolished and flawed.

Crying Wolf

This is a song I wrote during my brief time in the band J.E.E.P (just educated enough to perform), acoustic version. Good times, guys! 

No Rhythm No Rhyme

sixty days

This version is with a full electric band and is on my EP

Kara Taylor - vocals 
Brett Reid - Guitar
Jason Stasiuk - drums
Derek Nissen - bass

*produced by Ali Lopez * audio engineering by Jason Stasuik *

Queen of Obscene (EP version)

This was a sound-check-gone- EP track. This one shot recording is very personal and is rarely performed live.

Kara Taylor - guitar
Jason Stasiuk - Audio Engineering

*EP produced by Ali Lopez

Crying Wolf (EP version)

Fight or Flight (EP version)

Instruments: MIDI, played by Kara Taylor
Beats: all beats created by Kara Taylor
Composition, arrangement, lyrics: Kara Taylor 
All vocals: Kara Taylor

This track is one of many MIDI-based tracks I created for the last year, which is part of my new album “Ghosts”. Going through a break up of a 10 year relationship, writing songs with my actual piano was too heartbreaking. 

Now I’m back at the piano, & blending both live & virtual instruments.

No cure

Midi instruments, vocals, production, artwork: Kara Taylor 
Beats, production, artwork: Jay Electronica

Ghosts in our home .wav

Kara Taylor is a local musician, residing on  Lekwungen territories otherwise known asVictoria, BC. Their style is like their personality: full of variety, unapologetic, and deeply feeling. Kara’s musical influences are heard across their unique tracks, from acoustic singer/songwriter, to riot girl rock, to jazz, to blues, to hip hop, to experimental, to electronic (and recently, and somewhat surprisingly, to old country). Kara is not one to shy away from taking risks and pushing musical, lyrical, and vocal boundaries.  

From 14-19 yrs old Kara played the circuit of coffee shops and bars from Ottawa to Calgary to Victoria. They cut their first demos at 14 and 16 years old, but packed away dreams of being a rockstar upon entering university and subsequently becoming a Mama. 

A decade later, Kara put out their EP, with help from an amazing producer who discovered Kara at a local open mic, an audio engineer/drummer sent from heaven, and a roadie who turned out to play electric guitar like a badass—giving weight to Kara’s already deep sound. This decidedly rock ‘n’ roll EP, channeled old school greats like Janis Joplin, and won them a Q-award for Best of Artist of the Year. 

They have performed as a singer-songwriter and guitarist for over two decades, with their raw, emotional, introspective lyrics and sultry vocals. However, after taking a hiatus since 2012 due to heartbreak, breakup, breakdowns, and fighting (& beating) Lyme disease, 2018 brought Kara back home to the stage with a new sound, new songs, and a new instrument — the piano. 

They masterfully take their grief, the stripped-down, feel it in your bones, nakedness of the piano, and the genre of old country, to expose their raw vulnerability, their dark days, and their resiliency. This culmination of experiences, musical genres, instrumental experimentation, and finding a second home in the piano, has given their powerful vocals, and big, big feelings, the room they deserve. Kara is blowing apart stylistic doors that they were born to open. 

New tunes are currently being produced, but in the meantime, check out their EP, self-produced tracks, live radio podcasts, and shows. stay current on all the happenings on SoundCloud.

~For all media, booking, collaboration, representation, production etc. (or if you just dig the music:) contact Kara (they/them)at kara.taylor.music@gmail.com~

Kara Taylor

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