or even desperate
― donk at the radar station (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2016 09:25 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, but only as MP3s. And Amazon's own prices are almost way higher than with other sellers.
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 April 2016 09:30 (eight years ago) link
this album is gorgeous
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 1 April 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
^^^^
ended up listening to it 6 times today, and it's not even knocking-off time
― donk at the radar station (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
seen her twice and it's a remarkable live show; when someone's music has this many pre-composed threads, and your axe is a modular, it can be tough to walk the line between safely-programmed and live. and there are certainly prepared elements cooked in there but there's still a sense of independent threads & haywire randomness, and someone who knows how to listen & who knows her rig so well that all these random elements get utilized. the second live set in SF last september in particular just perfectly balanced live chaos and structure, blew me away much more than any of the records I'd heard so definitely looking forward to making time for this new one
http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/30/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-modular-synth-studio-video/
― Milton Parker, Friday, 1 April 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing her in a few weeks at Levitation. New album is great.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 1 April 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
wow this is big step forward from her already excellent earlier stuff
― adam, Friday, 1 April 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Her best yet
― Brad C., Friday, 1 April 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
in an act of unfettered capitalism run amok, I bought copies of Euclid and EARS from my local vinyl album purveyor this evening
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, 2 April 2016 03:11 (eight years ago) link
I bought Euclid from Origami when I was in L.A. a year ago. I am back now and will be buying Ears from ... somewhere.
― alpine static, Saturday, 2 April 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
^^ not that this is all that exciting or worth posting, mostly i am just glad to be back down here where it is warm for a week
― alpine static, Saturday, 2 April 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
This is fabulous. Like a midpoint between Glasser and Invisible Conga People, plus woodwinds.
― Tim F, Saturday, 2 April 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
Definitely hearing glasser in the vocals and the way they're treated
― donk at the radar station (NickB), Saturday, 2 April 2016 10:09 (eight years ago) link
Found out from a recent story that she comes from Orcas Island, one of the most beautiful but also fairly isolated places in the US. Whether or not that truly reflects in her art I don't know but I think it would encourage a certain independence.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 April 2016 12:11 (eight years ago) link
I guess I could easily google it, but where is that ned?
― donk at the radar station (NickB), Saturday, 2 April 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
Washington state apparently. That helps explain part of her aesthetic for me. She certainly doesn't sound like anything else out of LA right now. There's this organic pastoral quality to her sound that's very unique and it's wonderful hope her folk and classical background influences her electronic composition. Her new album is a bloody masterpiece BTW. One of the best things released so far this year. She's definitely leveled up.
― octobeard, Saturday, 2 April 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Lovely stuff: Glasser/non-scary Fever Ray in the vocals, which presses my buttons
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Sunday, 3 April 2016 08:47 (eight years ago) link
new interview @ popmatters
Driving a Spaceship Through Futuristic Jungles with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smithhttp://www.popmatters.com/feature/driving-a-spaceship-through-futuristic-jungles-with-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith/
― djmartian, Sunday, 3 April 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
The album was heavily influenced by animated art, particularly the movie Nausicaa by Hayao Miyazaki, but also the work of Jean Giraud Moebius and Killian Eng. All three artists, Smith says, “have these neo-futuristic vibes that still feel connected to nature and have a spiritual quality to them.” She adds, “That’s always been very evocative for me and has always been my visual language for when I’m creating sounds. It’s always been in that world. I’m starting to try and connect my visual world with my auditory world and try and make sound environments that can help other people feel those visual worlds.”
otm
really liked euclid but this is wonderful
― ogmor, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
nothing new to add, this is just incredible. "Existence In The Unfurling" is a perfect piece of music, the way those glassy melodies spiral and leap across each other is otherworldly.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
This is most excellent, and yeah, "Existence In The Unfurling" is so great, that, while really appreciating the composition of the short pieces here, and how finished they are...the lengthy exploration of the final track is just fantastic. What a closer.
Would echo the see her live if you can! The Bitchin' Bajas pairing last yr. was perfect (and Rob Frye from that outfit supplies horns and woodwinds here, I believe).
― dronestreet, Monday, 4 April 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
i saw her open for grouper last year in san francisco, and it was the only experience i've had where the opening act blew me away with their live performance. the new album is excellent, a cornucopia of wondrous sound, and i'm excited to have it accompany my life in these next few spring and summer months.
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 4 April 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
this is a gorgeous album
― marcos, Monday, 4 April 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
btw, the vinyl copies were very affordable, Euclid is $15 on amazon including digital download. They seemed slightly lightweight, but sound fantastic.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 4 April 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
EARS is fantastic, can't wait to see her open for the AC next month.
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
this album is gorgeous and i love it. i wasn't going to say anything bc i have little to contribute beyond this but i wanted to annoy lj.
― Mordy, Monday, 4 April 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I'm into this.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
this is such a gift
― 1st Amendment absolutist in favor of the unltd publication of sextapes (schlump), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:22 (eight years ago) link
Shared this album with a couple friends the other day very loud on the home hifi. They kind of just sat back and just said "wow" once the first track finished. After the album was done, we looked at each other and wondered aloud how we were going to put on another album after this one.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
so good. have been nerding out on modular stuff lately - but more the gear than the music being made by it - so to hear something come along like this and just blow you away is a welcome correction as much as anything else.
― Justin Townes' URL (haitch), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
GOOD MUSIC
― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 04:54 (eight years ago) link
yep
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
i might prefer euclid to the new one tbh
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
i do 2 but the new one is still wonderful
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
looking fw to seeing her live in NY soon. Put a song on this mix:
http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/dan-selzer-a-heavenly-imposition-mix
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
imago was complaining about this in another thread so i checked it out and am loving it so far, thanks LJ! :)
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
complaining?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Bitterly at that. His loss!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
seriously, I don't keep up with most new ilx threads, but I don't see how this record is particularly ILX-friendly. Maybe because the review compares it to Fever Ray/The Knife?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
i think it's just ilx friendly bc it's good and ilm posters are suckers for good music
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
not feeling this album. there are some good synth sounds on it but a lot of unpleasant sounds too.
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
which thread is all this complaining happening on?
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/229/files/2015/02/simpsons-pitchforks.jpg
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
fwiw i think this is p good but not standing out for me so far. i listen to a lot of music like this, it's nice but it's not blowing my mind.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
The album is good
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:19 PM (3 minutes ago)
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Für lj - this is a staggering monument of artistic genius and musical magnificence. surely the greatest album of the year, if not the century. ten thumbs up - highly recommended!
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
We should just have "good"/"bad" polls from now on.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
that's too absolutist. options should just be OK and eh
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
Is anyone else into Kara-lis Coverdale? I sort of group them together in my mind due to similarity of names, and KLC's music has more of an ecclesiastical Tim Hecker vibe but they both push the same emotional buttons for me.
(FYI if anyone is too much of a bottler to post on this entirely peaceable thread then their opinion basically doesn't exist and is irrelevant).
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
she's grifting live on the p4k IG right now:
https://www.instagram.com/pitchfork/
― alpine static, Friday, 22 May 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
I don't know, it beats doing nothing.it's like someone on Twitter was shading meal kit services, I love HelloFresh, 3 nights a week I don't have to think about what to make my kid, no shopping for some spice I'll use once every 5 years, plus motherfucker I know you live off DoorDash
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 May 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
it's like someone on Twitter was shading meal kit services, I love HelloFresh, 3 nights a week I don't have to think about what to make my kid, no shopping for some spice I'll use once every 5 years, plus motherfucker I know you live off DoorDash
lol
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
i don't actually buy any of these apps or subscriptions or anything, so i don't know what they're hawking on there. i just look for youtubes and have never felt the need to pay for anything beyond that.
fair enough -- i guess it's similar to how i look online for recipes when i can't decide what to make for dinner or what the typical ingredients are for some dish -- these resources exist and why not use them to improve your life.
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Without a spiritual tradition to fall back on, it seems hard for westerners to not worry about ‘not meditating right’ and I guess these apps can help but I wish there was a better, non-monetized way.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
there are many free youtubes
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
though you pay google for ads, but you if you do anything on the internet you already do that
I don’t know, should the “providers of this service” be compensated, is it labor, blah blah blah
― brimstead, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
Without a spiritual tradition to fall back on, it seems hard for westerners to not worry about ‘not meditating right’ and I guess these apps can help but I wish there was a better, non-monetized way.There are really good books, guided meditations, dharma talks, all available for free or low cost. There are good retreats that are free all over the world (not an option at the moment but.) If you live in a major urban area you can find a group of people to sit with (that would be via Zoom now.)
― lukas, Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
The problem is that the non-commercial stuff doesn't market itself well, so you have to know it's there.
― lukas, Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
dharmaseed.org
― doug watson, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
I use Meditation Studio now, good app, think it was $7 or something, but it's a 1 time fee not subscription
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
but in addition to the 8 million other decisions that I make every day that I'm informed are wrong and bad, good to know that the thing I use to breath for 5 minutes a day is bad and I should use some other thing that is good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
I know this is simplistic and probably goes w/o saying for most who maintain a practice, but the game changer for me was accepting that the "right" way to meditate (in vipassana meditation anyway) is just to acknowlege that's it's not working e.g. "oh look, now I'm thinking about this instead" and it changed the experience for me—this idea that you can't fuck it up so long as you observe yourself fucking it up
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
Brad Warner’s ‘sit down and shut up’ advice eventually worked for me but it took some getting past notions of “am I sitting correctly.”
I know all the other resources exist but many of them are tied to a spiritual tradition people may not be interested in and the success of Calm (or etc.) is that it’s an app on the device you carry with you all the time and not a class you have to travel to. Short of convincing everyone there’s no wrong way to meditate, it lowers the barrier to entry - unfortunately for $$$.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah I hadn't thought about explicit Buddhism being a barrier for some people, good point. Also I know nothing about Calm, not trying to knock it.
― lukas, Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
there was a great looking sorta cranky ebook I found on amazon once that seemed to focus on berating westerners for practicing mindfulness/meditation as a means to stress reduction/self help when they should just be doing it as a means to contemplate hell
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 May 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
now that I want a link to
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
what music can soundtrack a guided meditation on hell
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
Dark ambient?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXXCmX3t1g
― imago, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
no way is hell ambient
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
i guess with Calm, they do the cultural appropriation for you? idk i deal with anxiety the American way by taking pharmaceuticals proscribed by a doctor and partially covered by my health insurance company ... not saying that's the "right way" making a joke mostly ... just that I don't understand this whole meditation / relaxation industry
― sarahell, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
You don’t need to meditate to be meditating maaaaan.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
Revisiting this thread, reminded of more comfortable, more inconsequential, more moribund times
Real lol at this:
"Grifting" should become common usage as a verb to describe somebody using a modular synth
― DJ Fiona Apple Genius (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 5 June 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
beats "wiggling"
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 5 June 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
But surely one sketches on a music easel.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 June 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
New track: https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/lagoon
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpXOlcpoj1c
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Every time I listen to this record I forget it's on until "Expanding Electricity" rolls around. Really poor first single to album quality ratio.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Wednesday, 30 September 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
yeah, couldn't wait after listening to the preview, got the album off bandcamp and it was such a let down after that first release.
Still waiting for the vinyl from Bandcamp, which was ordered on the first bandcamp friday!
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
holy fuck, this new record……. my god
― winters (josh), Friday, 26 August 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link
I saw Max Tundra bigging this up, and reports are that it's a whole new sound, so I'll chance a listen, even though she's done nothing but annoy me before
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2022 06:54 (one year ago) link
Nah, same stuff repackaged. Maybe a bit less ambient than before, and there's probably more variation, but so many of the vocal, melodic, timbral choices are purpose-built to infuriate me still. Track 7 is quite good though! There I said it etc.
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
it leaked?
― Evan, Friday, 26 August 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
it came out yesterday
saw it being described as hyperpop and am disappointed it didn't live up to that
― ufo, Friday, 26 August 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
Well an hour ago when I posted that the bandcamp still had it in pre-order status. Just checked again and the page has updated, how about that.
― Evan, Friday, 26 August 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
I've given the new one a couple of half listens, and it's really not connecting. It seems too disjointed, and not in a fun po-mo OPN kind of way. Just ideas clashing with one another, with no real conceptual basis.
I still adore EARS though, and Sunergy. Guess I'm more into the bubbling synth arpeggios and orchestration, and less into the vocals and attempts at subversive 'structure'. KAS is great at ambient textures, and not so hot at 'songs' imo.
― The Ghost Club, Sunday, 28 August 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
She’s playing a free show in a couple weeks at the museum where I work - in LA
https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2023/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 22 September 2023 04:31 (eight months ago) link