Name: Tides: Music For Meditation and Yoga
Brand: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

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Catalogue number

TTP-102

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Format detail

140g 12" Black Vinyl / 33 RPM / 18pt Coated Jacket  Includes free digital download coupon.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-02-07

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5051142007056

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Genre GB

Electronic

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Touchtheplants

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.

Recorded in 2013, Tides is a glimpse into the early phase of what has become Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s signature approach to electronic music. Composed and played on a Buchla Music Easel––the modular synthesizer that gives Smith’s music its organic feel––this collection of instrumentals is at once uplifting, transportive and meditational. It comes as no surprise that it was commissioned by Smith's mother to accompany her yoga practice.

Tides pulsates and swells like the ocean itself. Field recordings of wind chimes and forest sounds are interspersed throughout much of the album, accentuating the pastoral aspirations of their electronic counterparts. The chirp of a bird might be confused for the elongated intervals of a muted siren, a steam valve opening and closing for the sound of the surf, or a drone for a live organ. The actuality is elusive and secondary to the alchemy at work. Natural and synthetic components become indistinguishable from one another and cohere seamlessly into a unified paean to bliss. Though the ambient nature of these recordings is inextricable, it is belied by an undercurrent of heart-like beats that hint at the visceral force of Smith’s current work.

Tides: Music For Meditation and Yoga

Music GB