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Even my subconscious is self-conscious,Inch Okay Kaya sings on InchInside Of A PlumInch, giving us a sense of the mental state she entered while making SAP, an album she wrote, performed, engineered, and produced alone, sometimes spending weeks at a time without social interaction. This is a concept album about consciousness in which Okay Kaya focuses her trademark combination of abstraction and wit on what happens to her mind unaccompanied, on her tendency to feel less like a human and more like the sticky secretion of a tree. After releasing her Spellemann Award winning album Watch This Liquid Pour Itself in January of 2020, Kaya left her home in New York and moved to Europe to create and show her various interdisciplinary exhibitions. Among others, she made an installation that amplified music made underwater and an interactive sculpture based on Jungian sandplay therapy for children. Between her exhibits, Kaya recorded through lockdowns by herself in the loaned studios of generous friends. SAP first grew from the first single InchSpinal TapInch about Kaya wandering in Berlin, tree-touching. InchSap reminds me of the bodily functions I need to remember to do, like sleep. One might say it 'resinates.'Inch The album was further inspired by Ketamine Therapy which is discussed in InchThe Inside Of A Plum.Inch Kaya explains, InchThe doctor said this treatment grows literal physical branches in your brain.Inch As she experimented with ego death, the subject of her song InchJazzerciseInch, Kaya found herself writing in the voices of fictional characters she'd encountered in other people's stories. In 'Jolene From Her Own Perspective,' she imagines Dolly Parton's nemesis responding to her song. In 'Origin Story,' Kaya writes as a mythical goddess frustrated with her creation myth. In 'I've Spent Forever Planning A Crisis,' Kaya responds to Cassavetes' film A Woman Under
