{"title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our collection of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith vinyl records, CDs, box sets, and more at Darkside Records. Shop new and used releases with fresh inventory arriving daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ears","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Ears (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Flight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wetlands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Envelop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e When I Try I'm Full\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Rare Things Grow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Arthropoda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stratus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Existence in the Unfurling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Western Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005696139485,"sku":"751937435518","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3200161.jpg?v=1727239482"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-lets-turn-it-into-sound","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Let's Turn It Into Sound (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Art is awe, art is mystery expressed,\" writes Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. \"Art is somatic, even if it is experienced cerebrally. It is felt.\" \n\nThe central mysteries of Smith's ninth studio album, Let's Turn it Into Sound, have to do with perception, expression, and communication: How can we communicate when spoken language is inadequate? How do we understand what it is we're feeling? How do we translate our experience of the world into something that someone else can understand? \n\nFor Smith, a self-described \"feeler,\" the answers are inspired by compound words in non-English languages, translation, sculptural fashion, dance, butoh, wushu shaolin, and other forms of sensory and somatic experience. Just like fashion uses lines, shapes, colors, textures, and silhouettes to communicate on a sensual level separate from the conscious mind, Let's Turn it Into Sound strives to use sound to communicate what words alone cannot.\n\n\"The album is a puzzle,\" Smith says. \"[It] is a symbol of receiving a compound of a ton of feelings from going out into a situation, and the song titles are instructions to breaking apart the feelings and understanding them.\" The energized \"Is it Me or Is it You\" comes from traversing the gaps between how you see yourself and how another might see you, through a filter of their own projections. The hushed sense of revelation that brackets \"There is Something\" refers to the feeling of walking into a room and being subconsciously aware of the dynamic present. All the while, Smith interprets these feelings through sound.\n\nThis auditory interpretation process, driven by earnest curiosity, led Smith to record some thoughts and questions that popped up along the journey in Somatic Hearing-a booklet which accompanies the album.\n\nOver three frenzied months, recording alone in her home studio, Smith allowed herself to pursue new experiments to accompany her usual toolkit of modular, analogue, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral sounds, and the voice. She created a new vocal processing technique, and gave herself permission to pursue a pacing that felt intuitive, rather one that followed typical song structures. She walked around in the windiest season with a subwoofer backpack and an umbrella, listening to the low end of the album amidst 60mph gusts. She listened to herself, and, in doing so, to an inner community which suddenly opened to her.\n\nUnderlying the album is a dynamic relationship between what Smith describes as six distinct voices, each a multifaceted storyteller. By acknowledging these characters, she was acknowledging her whole being: the woven plurality of self, the complex process of noticing and resolving inner conflicts, and the joy of finding harmony in flux. \"I started to feel so embodied by all of these characters. This is all the felt, unsaid stuff [my inner community] wants to communicate but it doesn't have the English language as it's form of communication, and so [this album was a form of] giving space to let it talk and not judge it and just let it play.\" By not adhering to expected song structures, each song feels even more like a conversation, with each character getting to express themselves in full. \n\nSmith has never fit neatly into the ambient genre conversation she's most often associated with, and here she forges even further outside of it, traversing avant-garde pop, neoclassical, and the otherwise unclassifiable. The result is a playful, inquisitive, excitable work which appeals to us as social, sensitive animals, and invites listeners into a wholly idiosyncratic world that is both experimental, and, feels like the most human thing in the world. Proceeding through Let's Turn it Into Sound is like peeking into a secret realm: one that delights both in the discovery of the magic hidden in the everyday, and the shimmer that lingers long after the portal itself shuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHave You Felt Lately?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Locate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Let it Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Is it Me or is it You?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Check Your Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pivot Signal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Unbraid: The Merge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Then the Wind Came\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e There is Something\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Give to the Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly Int'l","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006254473437,"sku":"804297840611","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4109965-2848662.jpg?v=1727225235"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-lets-turn-it-into-sound-neon-yellow","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Let's Turn It Into Sound - Neon Yellow (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Art is awe, art is mystery expressed,\" writes Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. \"Art is somatic, even if it is experienced cerebrally. It is felt.\" \n\nThe central mysteries of Smith's ninth studio album, Let's Turn it Into Sound, have to do with perception, expression, and communication: How can we communicate when spoken language is inadequate? How do we understand what it is we're feeling? How do we translate our experience of the world into something that someone else can understand? \n\nFor Smith, a self-described \"feeler,\" the answers are inspired by compound words in non-English languages, translation, sculptural fashion, dance, butoh, wushu shaolin, and other forms of sensory and somatic experience. Just like fashion uses lines, shapes, colors, textures, and silhouettes to communicate on a sensual level separate from the conscious mind, Let's Turn it Into Sound strives to use sound to communicate what words alone cannot.\n\n\"The album is a puzzle,\" Smith says. \"[It] is a symbol of receiving a compound of a ton of feelings from going out into a situation, and the song titles are instructions to breaking apart the feelings and understanding them.\" The energized \"Is it Me or Is it You\" comes from traversing the gaps between how you see yourself and how another might see you, through a filter of their own projections. The hushed sense of revelation that brackets \"There is Something\" refers to the feeling of walking into a room and being subconsciously aware of the dynamic present. All the while, Smith interprets these feelings through sound.\n\nThis auditory interpretation process, driven by earnest curiosity, led Smith to record some thoughts and questions that popped up along the journey in Somatic Hearing-a booklet which accompanies the album.\n\nOver three frenzied months, recording alone in her home studio, Smith allowed herself to pursue new experiments to accompany her usual toolkit of modular, analogue, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral sounds, and the voice. She created a new vocal processing technique, and gave herself permission to pursue a pacing that felt intuitive, rather one that followed typical song structures. She walked around in the windiest season with a subwoofer backpack and an umbrella, listening to the low end of the album amidst 60mph gusts. She listened to herself, and, in doing so, to an inner community which suddenly opened to her.\n\nUnderlying the album is a dynamic relationship between what Smith describes as six distinct voices, each a multifaceted storyteller. By acknowledging these characters, she was acknowledging her whole being: the woven plurality of self, the complex process of noticing and resolving inner conflicts, and the joy of finding harmony in flux. \"I started to feel so embodied by all of these characters. This is all the felt, unsaid stuff [my inner community] wants to communicate but it doesn't have the English language as it's form of communication, and so [this album was a form of] giving space to let it talk and not judge it and just let it play.\" By not adhering to expected song structures, each song feels even more like a conversation, with each character getting to express themselves in full. \n\nSmith has never fit neatly into the ambient genre conversation she's most often associated with, and here she forges even further outside of it, traversing avant-garde pop, neoclassical, and the otherwise unclassifiable. The result is a playful, inquisitive, excitable work which appeals to us as social, sensitive animals, and invites listeners into a wholly idiosyncratic world that is both experimental, and, feels like the most human thing in the world. Proceeding through Let's Turn it Into Sound is like peeking into a secret realm: one that delights both in the discovery of the magic hidden in the everyday, and the shimmer that lingers long after the portal itself shuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHave You Felt Lately?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Locate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Let it Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Is it Me or is it You?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Check Your Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pivot Signal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Unbraid: The Merge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Then the Wind Came\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e There is Something\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Give to the Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly Int'l","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006255227101,"sku":"804297840635","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4109963-2848664.jpg?v=1727225223"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-mosaic-of-transformation-clear-vinyl","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Mosaic Of Transformation (Clear Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWest 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 latest full-length, The Mosaic of Transformation, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself. \"I guess in one sentence, this album is my expression of love and appreciation for electricity,\" says Smith. 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, what Smith calls \"a visual language\" stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, \"as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,\" much like a mosaic. Smith describes her first encounters with this mosaic; \"the inspiration came to me in a sudden bubble of joy. It was accompanied by a multitude of shapes that were moving seamlessly from one into the other... My movement practice has been a constant transformation piece by piece. I made this album in the same way. Every day I would transform what I did yesterday... into something else. This album has gone through about 12 different versions of itself.\" As it has arrived, in a completed state, 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. As the breath interacts and is focused upon, suddenly, the nervous system engages, delicate arpeggios cascade, akin to becoming aware of the transmission of energy happening between muscles and the mind. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnbraiding Boundless Energy Within Boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Remembering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Understanding Body Messages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Steady Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Carrying Gravity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Spine Is Quiet in the Center\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Overflowing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Deepening the Flow of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Expanding Electricity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly Int'l","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006474051805,"sku":"804297835631","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3810066-2576211.jpg?v=1727218316"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-kid-1","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- KID (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006821884125,"sku":"616892515142","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3740975.jpg?v=1727204787"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-gush","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Gush (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaitlyn Aurelia Smith, the world-renowned, award-winning electronic artist, transforms synth-driven soundscapes into immersive, otherworldly experiences. Known for her ability to weave organic textures with futuristic electronic elements, Kaitlyn creates music that feels both ethereal and deeply human. Her work blurs the lines between ambient, experimental, and dance music, capturing the attention of tastemakers and festival-goers alike. As a classically trained jazz musician and sound engineer, she brings unparalleled technical expertise and artistic depth to her craft. With each release, Kaitlyn continues to innovate, crafting sound journeys that challenge convention and connect listeners on a visceral level. A true sonic architect, she transcends genre, reshaping the possibilities of music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide A\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Drip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Urges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gush\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stare Into Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Into Your Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What's Between Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Side B\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Feel Heard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Both\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Everything Combining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Almost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The World Just Got a Little More Big\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lay Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In the Dressing Room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e UPC \u0026gt; 067003171311 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Format \u0026gt; New Vinyl \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Label \u0026gt; Nettwerk Records \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Release Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 9.12.25 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46644424376541,"sku":"067003171311","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4416278-3389846.jpg?v=1754487518"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-euclid-lp","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Euclid [LP] (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKaitlyn's solo debut Euclid (primarily written on a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer) was inspired by her love of mbira music, early electronic music pioneers like Laurie Spiegel, Oskar Sala, and Terry Riley, and euclidian geometry. Each of the first six songs on Euclid were initially structured using euclidian geometry, an idea which Smith explored while attending a class at the San Francisco Conservatory. As Smith explains, \"We each chose a 3D shape and assigned our own guidelines to the different components that make up the shape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCareen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWide Awake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStunts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSundry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEscapade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Ii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Iii 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Iv 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth V 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Vi 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Vii 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Viii 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Ix 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth X 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Xi 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabyrinth Xii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 751937432012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Western Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46974517346525,"sku":"751937432012","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/2835935.jpg?v=1762833258"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-mosaic-of-transformation","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- The Mosaic Of Transformation (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWest 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 latest full-length, The Mosaic of Transformation, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself. \"I guess in one sentence, this album is my expression of love and appreciation for electricity,\" says Smith. 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, what Smith calls \"a visual language\" stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, \"as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,\" much like a mosaic. Smith describes her first encounters with this mosaic; \"the inspiration came to me in a sudden bubble of joy. It was accompanied by a multitude of shapes that were moving seamlessly from one into the other... My movement practice has been a constant transformation piece by piece. I made this album in the same way. Every day I would transform what I did yesterday... into something else. This album has gone through about 12 different versions of itself.\" As it has arrived, in a completed state, 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. As the breath interacts and is focused upon, suddenly, the nervous system engages, delicate arpeggios cascade, akin to becoming aware of the transmission of energy happening between muscles and the mind. 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. 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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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Flight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWetlands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnvelop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen I Try, I'm Full\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRare Things Grow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArthropoda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStratus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExistence in the Unfurling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46984447819997,"sku":"751937435525","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3200162.jpg?v=1762927379"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-kid-2","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Kid (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2015 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith released her first widely distributed full-length album, Euclid. Little more than a year later Smith returned with her wonderstruck psychedelic breakthrough EARS to universal praise in the spring of 2016. Pitchfork called EARS \"rich and rewarding,\" and included EARS in their list of the top twenty experimental albums of the year, while other outlets including NPR, SPIN, and Rolling Stone sung similar best-of-the-year praises. In addition to releasing EARS in 2016, Smith toured with fellow sonic-adventurists Animal Collective, and soundtracked Google's incredible virtual tour series The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks. This year sees the welcomed continuation of Smith's output, The Kid, an album that climbs to the peaks of its forerunner and astonishingly continues upward. The Kid aurally maps the emotional realities and spiritual epiphanies of a lifeform through its infancy, societal assimilation, and eventual self-remembrance, conjuring each phase with psychoacoustic eloquence. On her newest LP Smith challenges her listeners to entertain new paradigms of listenership by drawing our attention to multiple elements simultaneously, as if-- in her words-- \"listening to two conversations at once.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Am a Thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Intention\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Kid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Am Consumed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the World, but Not of the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Am Learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Follow \u0026amp; Lead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUntil I Remember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWho I Am \u0026amp; Why I Am Where I Am\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Am Curious, I Care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Will Make Room for You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Feel Your Best\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 616892497042\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Western Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46985599090909,"sku":"616892497042","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3710029.jpg?v=1762929552"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-lets-turn-it-into-sound-1","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Let's Turn It Into Sound (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s solo work has drawn acclaim from all reaches of the experimental music world including Pitchfork, NPR, The Wire, and Rolling Stone. The new collection, Let's Turn It Into Sound, finds Smith pushing the boundaries of her craft, inviting new colors, shapes, and frequencies into her symphony of synthesizer music. The resulting material is more percussive, vocally-driven, and adventurous, her boldest charge of electricity to date. This will be Kaitlyn’s fourth release with Ghostly and her second solo album with Ghostly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHave You Felt Lately?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLocate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet it Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs it Me or is it You?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCheck Your Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePivot Signal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnbraid: The Merge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThen the Wind Came\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is Something\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGive to the Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46985738682589,"sku":"804297840628","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4109964-2848663.jpg?v=1762929799"},{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-mosaic-of-transformation-1","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- The Mosaic Of Transformation (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWest 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 latest full-length, The Mosaic of Transformation, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself. \"I guess in one sentence, this album is my expression of love and appreciation for electricity,\" says Smith. 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, what Smith calls \"a visual language\" stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, \"as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,\" much like a mosaic. Smith describes her first encounters with this mosaic; \"the inspiration came to me in a sudden bubble of joy. It was accompanied by a multitude of shapes that were moving seamlessly from one into the other... My movement practice has been a constant transformation piece by piece. I made this album in the same way. Every day I would transform what I did yesterday... into something else. This album has gone through about 12 different versions of itself.\" As it has arrived, in a completed state, 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. As the breath interacts and is focused upon, suddenly, the nervous system engages, delicate arpeggios cascade, akin to becoming aware of the transmission of energy happening between muscles and the mind. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnbraiding Boundless Energy Within Boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemembering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Body Messages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Steady Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarrying Gravity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Spine Is Quiet in the Center\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOverflowing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeepening the Flow of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpanding Electricity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 804297835617\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Ghostly Int'l\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47541561393373,"sku":"804297835617","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3810064-2576209.jpg?v=1772601159"}],"url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/zh-cn\/collections\/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith.oembed","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}