Itasca
Imitation of War
PoB-073
LP/CD/digital
February 9, 2024

On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, leanest, and most smolderingly electric guitar-forward recordings of Cohen’s deepening catalog.

Cohen’s got a voice that glows like the sun at dusk, and plays guitar with a nimble yet intricate touch. – NPR

Simultaneously haunting and heavenly … shimmers with an eternal mystery. – MOJO

Cohen’s most salient talent is evocation—trapping place, weather, and physical presence like a butterfly pinned beneath glass. – Pitchfork

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Website: www.itascalosangeles.com/
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Imitation of War

LP/CD/digital

Itasca: Milk

Featuring Elaine Caswell, Marc Cohn, and me, Tommy Mandel, author, on vocals. From the Rock Opera, Joe Zopra (originally Joe's Opera) ©Tommy Mandel 1974, 1985, 2017. 
Performed at Café LaMama (74), Stuart Ostrow Musical Theater Lab at St. Clement's Church, NYC (75), and Sarah Lawrence (2017.) ...so far...

Joe Zopra

Painful One

If "KeAndre" was a shape what would it look like? What color would it be? What would it sound like? It all goes back to the question that started it all...Who is KeAndre?

Genre: Rap, Lo-Fi

Jazz Piano Sample from Ruc

https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/346147/piano-chords-free-93bpm-jazz-piano-loop

Drum Sample from Westside4124:

https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/346950/some-random-think-break-ig-free-170bpm-drum-and-bass-drum-loop

Shape of KeAndre

#15 - Shape Of KeAndre

Runnner - string (yellow house session)

some things never change

"What few friends remain
Seem to love to start their day...
By asking me what color will I paint the sky today"

What Color Will I Paint The Sky Today

Written thirteen months after the death of my youngest son, from cancer, the song imagines getting slightly lost, on a walk in the hills and meeting him on the foothills of heaven.
This recording was made in the lovely acoustic of the Relig Oran, a medieval chapel on Iona, in the graveyard where he was buried.

I Met My Love - Relig Oran 17 - 11 - 23

New Year

Sea Storm

The Best of 2024

Fall in Love(Best Friend)

Sibewest X Spaceouters- Transparent (ceqeo flip)

I put the new music I'm making here. Hope you like

Painful One

Tommy Mandel

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