Name: Ears
Brand: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

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WV145lp

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Limited edition

Release date

2016-04-01

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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751937435518

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

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Electronic

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Western Vinyl

<p>Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer who was raised on Orcas Island in northwest Washington state. She attended the Berklee College of Music to study composition and sound engineering. Starting out as a vocalist, she later took up classical guitar and piano, and formed an indie folk project called Ever Isles.</p>

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album 'Euclid' will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album 'Ears'. On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds. After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's 'Boys Latin' video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts). Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces). Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on 'Ears' is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration. LP - With Download.

Ears

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