Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

I didn't like the public shaming element of that thread but i like the idea of Divisive Albums where people passionately take sides, we could stand to have more of that on the board.

Sometimes it feels like there is so much a available music now, no one album seems to matter... Everyone has a "like it or leave it" approach, which is bad for criticism. If you can love something, you should be able to hate it... Idk this thread wasn't an instance of that but I like the idea of passions running high.

i don't think this album can bear the weight of serious divisiveness. it's just mostly pleasant + unoffensive which is obv what imago doesn't like about it - that it isn't challenging/difficult enough.

nah I just find the melodies completely uninteresting, which is enough to make me fairly passionately dislike something (if it's melodically-driven, which this is imo, as much as it is texturally-driven, and sure the textures are nice)

can't conceive of a non-pointed sense in which a melody can be interesting

I wonder how common an experience it is nowadays for an artist investigating what seems to be a sudden breakthrough of appreciation for her work and finding shitposting containment

I've only played it a few times. Thanks to this thread, I'm glad I checked it out. Some of the processed vocals early on bothered me a bit. That's a small point, and I think most of it is "good" I'm sure I'll play it again, but it might be too pretty and unthreatening to get the adrenaline flowing.

@ katherine, typically in the experiences of the people I know, the shitposts are all that are remembered, they blot out all the praise

In this case though not much of it is at the expense of the actual music or the musician.

also she's on tour with anco

o shit whiney's gonna have a field day with that

spending a tour with animal collective seems like it'd be a real drag/test of patience

Are you saying that for any reason beyond being subjected to their performances along the way?

the animal collective dudes always seemed very chill almost to the point of dullness

She might get bored and turn to the internet and find this thread...

...which is overwhelmingly positive, so hi Kaitlyn I enjoy your work

starting to prefer this over euclid now

"spending a tour with animal collective seems like it'd be a real drag/test of patience"

they make really good earplugs now.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TQkCGgIjrCA/UNs0KJpSeuI/AAAAAAAAAyU/yjeG91v5TCs/s1600/GuyGiantHeadphones.jpg

this album is so dope, thanks 2 whiney for his thread cuz otherwise i wouldnt've clicked on this one

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same. i've been listening to it obsessively the last few days and picked up the LP this afternoon. euclid rules too!

just to counterweight the jokes a lil idk if this is broadly true or politically meaningful but: anco support slot is p significant, i think, & has a p gd history; like i remember hearing grouper talk abt it being her first real show getting paid a living-artist-wage amount of money. i feel like i have seen good groups supporting at animal collective shows, & that KAS is maybe a smaller commodity commercially than whoever else they could've dragged along, so w2g AC for breaking up the Shitty Evening Of Support Band Industrial Complex & introducing everybody to cool spacey music

Credit to them for breaking up a Shitty Evening Of Animal Collective Music with something good as well.

they are good i think

Here's something that scratches a similar itch (but not nearly as good): https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/lines

bought this record at the weekend thanks to the Whiney thread. It's pretty good so far!

and i know i keep banging on about it, but anyone who likes this should check out Girls In Airports as well.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/45-best-albums-of-2016-so-far-20160620/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ears-20160617

Looking forward to this!

http://www.factmag.com/2016/06/28/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-suzanne-ciani-frkwys/

Nice

So, I got Sunergy in the mail today, and it's pretty dope! It sounds less organic and more influenced by old school space music/synth jamming than KAS's previous albums, but being a big space music fan I like that! I wasn't familiar with Suzanne Ciani before, but based on her liner notes his been playing the Buchla since the 1970s, and I guess that's her hand showing with the more spacey stuff. It's not like proper cool/minimal '70s space music a la Tangerine Dream though, it gets more loopy and heavy, and occasionally the arpeggios even sound like they could be from Wechselspannung or some other downtempo electro album. No beats though, which is fine.

Time will tell, but on the first listen this may even be my favourite Smith album since Tides.

New interview up today if yr interested in the process (and how they got together):

http://thequietus.com/articles/20910-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-suzanne-ciani-interview

The Ciani 'Invisible Jukebox' feature in the Sept 2016 issue of The Wire is also a good read (and very funny in places).

so I checked if this was up on Spotify and it isn't there yet, but they have added Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Concerts 1975 disc, which I'm checking out now:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5NeWznX1xhs9KzsNh5PZQT

nice catch, thx for sharing

A Bolinas concert would be amazing. Also, it would only be promoted via flyers posted at the bar and the general store, maybe a message written in the sand at low tide, and I'd never hear about it.

Yeah, the official release date is September 16th... I pre-ordered it via Bandcamp, and for some reason got the physical CD in mail yesterday already, even though you can't yet download the digital version on the Bandcamp page.

catching ciani tonight at roulette. finally a brooklyn modular show i can get excited about

Super psyched for Sunergy, I know I'm going to love it...

I've been listening to this more, and I really like the (apparently) improvised nature of the music, you never know where it's gonna go next. I mostly listen to ambient/space music informed by techno and house and other forms of dance music, but this seems to sidestep that lineage completely, possibly because Ciani predates it. So it's nicely unpredictable.

If you could make one complaint, it's that the soundworld on all three tracks is pretty samey, I guess because most of the music was done with the two Buchlas Smith and Ciani played. But it's a trippy world to dive into!

Man, I love the synth twitches on the first track starting around 14:45 minutes... Like aliens burping through 303s.

sweet video, looks like they had fun making this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Xaw5r43n0

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/16/don-buchla-modular-synthesizer-pioneer-dies-aged-79

https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia/status/776897971078045697

Nobody posted this yet apparently - limited release on a tape compilation from 2015, so it's understandable if it was missed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDzKWqqSTvs

Sunergy is on Spotify now, but for some reason searching by that title didn't show it: had to look for 'FRKWYS' instead

One spin in after getting this last night – and it's pretty much exactly what I wanted/expected, and that's a great thing. Love this.

this is wayyy more up my alley than the other KAS stuff.

great last night in london, when it got started...

(i think the support was a dj, but there was nothing to say that the special guest dj had taken over from the bloke playing records beforehand. so it just felt like we were being kept waiting for 2 hours, 200 of us crammed into a railway arch.)

she came on at 9:30, played for 50 minutes or so. not sure how much was sequenced or how much of it was improvised. seemed to be playing songs, short bits with vocals with some longer (better) bits in between.

Sounds pretty similar to her set in SF a couple weeks ago. Would love for her to just jam for an hour, but then I'm currently in love with Sunergy soooo

colorful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goegShPV3i0

Nice. Is this a leftover from the EARS sessions?

listening to Ears and it really is a great album