Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga

Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga
Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga
Studio album by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Released	January 11, 2019
Recorded	2013
Label	Touchtheplants
Producer	Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith chronology

Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga is an album by American musician Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, formally released 11 January 2019 through the label Touchtheplants,^[1] but was available on vinyl from late December 2018.^[2] It is her first album since The Kid (2017).

Background and recording[]

Smith recorded the album in 2013 using a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer after her mother, a yoga teacher, wanted music she could play during her classes.^[1] It includes field recordings of "wind chimes, forest sounds, birds chirping, [and] steam valves".^[3] The album will be the first release on Smith's new label, Touchtheplants.^[3]

Critical reception[]

Fact said the album provides an "insight into an early phase of the composer[']s music".^[4]

Track listing[]

Adapted from Bandcamp.^[5]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tides IX"
2.	"Tides VIII"
3.	"Tides VII"
4.	"Tides VI"
5.	"Tides V"
6.	"Tides IV"	6:44
7.	"Tides III"	3:24
8.	"Tides II"
9.	"Tides I"

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Middleton, Ryan (November 27, 2018). "Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Releasing 'Tides: Music For Yoga and Meditation' On New Label". Magnetic Magazine. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
^ Alston, Trey (November 14, 2018). "Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Announces New Yoga and Meditation Album". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Pearl, Max (November 28, 2018). "RA News: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith to release Tides, an album of music for meditation and yoga". Resident Advisor. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
^ Bruce-Jones, Henry (27 November 2018). "Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith makes meditation music for her mother on Tides". Fact. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
^ "Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith". Retrieved 16 December 2018 – via Bandcamp.

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[MM-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Middleton, Ryan (November 27, 2018). "Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Releasing 'Tides: Music For Yoga and Meditation' On New Label". Magnetic Magazine. Retrieved December 16, 2018.

[2] Alston, Trey (November 14, 2018). "Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Announces New Yoga and Meditation Album". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 16, 2018.

[RA-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Pearl, Max (November 28, 2018). "RA News: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith to release Tides, an album of music for meditation and yoga". Resident Advisor. Retrieved December 16, 2018.

[4] Bruce-Jones, Henry (27 November 2018). "Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith makes meditation music for her mother on Tides". Fact. Retrieved 16 December 2018.

[5] "Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith". Retrieved 16 December 2018 – via Bandcamp.

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