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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

Indian Summer

Faux Ever

Workhorse

From time to time
We all need help
Just listen to me
Repeat myself

Repeat myself
And repeat my lines
Why say it just once
When I can say it two times?

Shut up, shut up, shut up

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk?

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk?

From time to time 
I can’t quite make out
The murmurings 
From in the crowd

The only sound 
That I can recognize 
Is a sound I’ve heard
At least three times

Shut up, shut up, shut up

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk?

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk?

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk?

Uh…what was I gonna say?
Hey, where are you going?
I was gonna say…something?
Oh well, okay

Shut up
Shut up

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk? 

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk? 

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk? 

Everybody’s talking 
Why won’t they just shut up?
Can’t they see I’m waiting 
For my turn to talk? 

Shut up
Shut up

Shut Up

White Roses, My God

Get Still

Bonus track live show

It so common. 

do not miss this event,  
every body tries get in, 
music is calling, 
rhytm hypnotising, so now don't be late, 
we all are waiting, looking forward to  your shiny happy  smile,

so common in, 

don't wait anymore ....let's dance on the floor, or on the table, , this evening  is yours, be like a lion, now, only you are able

yeah yea yeaaaaah yeaaaaahhhhh

,and 
heat is on, wet and hot bodies, 
in all rainbow of spotlights,
music is loud, rhytm is fast, 
don't hasitate
tune it up to the high and dance,
yea yea yea, yeaaah yea yeaaah yea yeaaaaahhhh

Friday Night. ( bonus )

Roses

Taken from La Plage upcoming EP 'Saint Antoine' 

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