| Tides | ||||
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| Released | November 11, 2014 January 11, 2019 (reissue) | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Label | Touchtheplants | |||
| Producer | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | |||
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Tides is an album by American musician Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, initially released in 2014 and later re-released on 11 January 2019 as Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga through the label Touchtheplants. [1]
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". [2] The album will be the first release on Smith's new label, Touchtheplants. [2]
Fact said the album provides an "insight into an early phase of the composer[']s music". [3]
| 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" |
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