Kaina - It Was A Home - Yellow Colored Vinyl - VINYL LP

Kaina creates generational music that surpasses borders, a unified expression of her native Chicago, and her Venezuelan and Guatemalan heritage. This cultural fusion is best illustrated on her 2019 debut full-length album Next To The Sun-a project that established her as a leader in a movement of artists whose work hinges on identity and representation. Kaina has continued to push this narrative through her brand of sweet-hearted optimism, which she uses to uplift and build community. -Over the years, she has crafted a sound that is gentle, yet full of intent, and built a songwriting practice that explores love, legacy, and ancestry. She has also brought this on the road on national tours supporting artists like Sleater-Kinney (who make an appearance on It Was A Home), Cuco, Durand Jones, and so on. -On It Was A Home, Kaina reflects on her modest upbringing, and the loss of sharing space with her family and friends in recent years, as COVID made it difficult to do so. She also deepens her storied lyricism with self reflection and self love, and how her upbringing allowed her to occupy that emotional space. This album finds her continuing to be a leader, not only in her community in Chicago, but to artists around the world honing in on their craft.A1. Anybody Can Be in Love (00 02 58) A2. It Was A Home (00 03 35) A3. Good Feeling (ft. Sen Morimoto) (00 03 12) A4. Sweetness (00 03 12) A5. In My Mind (00 03 09) A6. Ultraviolet (ft. Sleater-Kinney) (00 02 47) B7. Come Back As A Flower (00 04 17) B8. Blue ft. Helado Negro (00 04 00) B9. Casita (00 03 39) B10. Apple (00 03 24) B11. Friend of Mine (00 04 19) B12. Golden Mirror (00 03 44)

Aki Okui - Opener [COMPACT DISCS] Japan - Import date 07/25/2012

Pink Vinyl. In Chicago, cutting edge hip-hop and R&B artists are forging influential new sounds and catapulting one after the other into the national spotlight. City native KAINA has been at the periphery of many of these successes and is one of the most prominent Latinx voices in this developing story. In the last two years she has regularly collaborated with some of the biggest names in Chicago hip-hop, graced the stages of major festivals, and amassed several million online streams over a couple of EPs. With the of her debut full length Next to The Sun (Sooper Records, 2019), KAINA is poised to break out and join her contemporaries in the ongoing saga of this Chicago story. Next to The Sun is written by KAINA and co-produced with Sen Morimoto.