KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH - The Mosaic Of Transformation - LP - Limited Clear Vinyl

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KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH - The Mosaic Of Transformation - LP - Limited Clear Vinyl

KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH - The Mosaic Of Transformation - LP - Limited Clear Vinyl

€23.99 €9.99

 

KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – The Mosaic Of Transformation

LP – Limited Edition Clear Vinyl – Includes 6”x8” Printed Card & Inner


West coast composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has chartered a pioneering career with multiple critically-acclaimed albums since 2015. Following the release 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 most recent full-length, The Mosaic of Transformation, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself.

 

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, a “visual language” stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes.

The Mosaic of Transformation is a holistic manifestation of embodied motions. Smith’s signature textural curiosity that fans have grown to adore pivots naturally into a proprioceptive study of melody and timbre. Airy organ and voice interweave with burbling Buchla-spawned harmonic bubbles.

The Steady Heart quivers to life, peppering blasts of wooden organ between winding vocal affirmations. As with a body, moving one portion requires a balance and counterbalance; here, subtle tonal twitchy signals fire in conjunction with coiling arias to create a mesmeric core. When the beat arrives at the midway mark, a swooping and jittery waltz, a sense of stasis in motion, a flow state, is sonically achieved. As soon as it syncs, it disappears back into the swirling ebbs of electric force. Other tracks stray into more ruminative physical realms. Carrying Gravity is built around string-like pads that expand and contract like a solar plexus, becoming taught and then loose.

 

If the record could be summarized in a single movement, it is the 10-minute closing suite, a rapturous collage called Expanding Electricity. Symphonic phrases establish the piece before washes of glittering electric peals and synthesized vibraphone helix into focus. Soon, Smith’s voice grounds it all with an intuitive vocal hook, harmonized and augmented by concentric spirals of harp-and-horn-like sounds. Smith’s music doesn’t capture a specific emotion as much as it captures the joys of possessing a body, and the ability to, with devotion and a steady open heart, maneuver that vessel in space by way of electricity to euphoric degrees.

Tracklist
01. Unbraiding Boundless Energy Within Boundaries
02. Remembering
03. Understanding Body Messages
04. The Steady Heart
05. Carrying Gravity
06. The Spine Is Quiet In The Center
07. Overflowing
08. Deepening The Flow Of
09. Expanding Electricity

LABEL: Ghostly International

CAT NO: GI356LPC1

BARCODE: 804297835631