Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Mosaic Of Transformation (Clear Vinyl) - VINYL LP

How often, singer-songwriter Hayes Carll asks, speaking of his older material, Inchdoes someone get to go back in, change the rhythms, turn up guitars, shift the perspective of a lyric or the delivery of a vocal?Inch If you're one of contemporary Americana's most in-demand performers not often. However, a rare break in touring presented Carll with precisely that-an opportunity to revisit (and reimagine) some of the best and most beloved songs in his catalog. Enter the Alone Together Sessions. With songwriter-producer Darrell Scott behind the boards, Carll cut eleven gorgeous acoustic tracks, including a reworked version of 2008's InchDrunken Poet's Dream,Inch which, on this , features the legendary Ray Wylie Hubbard. For first-timers, the Alone Together Sessions work as a point of entry to Carll's songbook; for old fans, it's a delightful return to form. Album Tracks 1. Arkansas Blues 2. Drunken Poet's Dream (Feat. Ray Wylie Hubbard) 3. Times Like These 4. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart 5. Down the Road Tonight 6. That's the Way Love Goes (Feat. Allison Moorer) 7. Kmag Yoyo 8. Bye Bye Baby 9. Sake of the Song 10. Beaumont 11. Wild As a Turkey

West coast composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has chartered a pioneering career with multiple critically-acclaimed albums since 2015. Following the of The Kid in 2017, Smith focused her energy in several directions. She founded Touchtheplants, a multidisciplinary creative environment for projects including the first volumes in her instrumental Electronic Series and pocket-sized poetry books on the practice of listening within. She's continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body's relationship to sound and color. It is this life-guiding interest that forms the foundational frequencies of her latest full-length, The Mosaic of Transformation, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself. InchI guess in one sentence, this album is my expression of love and appreciation for electricity,Inch says Smith. While writing and recording, she embraced a daily practice of physical movement, passing electricity through her body and into motion, in ways reflecting her audio practice, which sends currents through modular synthesizers and into the air through speakers. Not a dancer by any traditional definition, she taught herself improvisatory movement realizing flexibility, strength, and unexpectedly, what Smith calls Incha visual languageInch stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, Inchas a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,Inch much like a mosaic. Smith describes her first encounters with this mosaic; Inchthe inspiration came to me in a sudden bubble of joy. It was accompanied by a multitude of shapes that were moving seamlessly from one into the other... My movement practice has been a constant transformation piece by piece.

Art is awe, art is mystery expressed, writes Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. InchArt is somatic, even if it is experienced cerebrally. It is felt.Inch The central mysteries of Smith's ninth studio album, Let's Turn it Into Sound, have to do with perception, expression, and communication How can we communicate when spoken language is inadequate? How do we understand what it is we're feeling? How do we translate our experience of the world into something that someone else can understand? For Smith, a self-described Inchfeeler,Inch the answers are inspired by compound words in non-English languages, translation, sculptural fashion, dance, butoh, wushu shaolin, and other forms of sensory and somatic experience. Just like fashion uses lines, shapes, colors, textures, and silhouettes to communicate on a sensual level separate from the conscious mind, Let's Turn it Into Sound strives to use sound to communicate what words alone cannot.InchThe album is a puzzle,Inch Smith says. Inch[It] is a symbol of receiving a compound of a ton of feelings from going out into a situation, and the song titles are instructions to breaking apart the feelings and understanding them.Inch The energized InchIs it Me or Is it YouInch comes from traversing the gaps between how you see yourself and how another might see you, through a filter of their own projections. The hushed sense of revelation that brackets InchThere is SomethingInch refers to the feeling of walking into a room and being subconsciously aware of the dynamic present. All the while, Smith interprets these feelings through sound.This auditory interpretation process, driven by earnest curiosity, led Smith to record some thoughts and questions that popped up along the journey in Somatic Hearing-a booklet which accompanies the album.Over three frenzied months, recording alone in her home studio, Smith allowed herself to pursue new experiments