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]
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".[2] The album will be the first release on Smith's new label, Touchtheplants.[2]
Critical reception
Fact said the album provides an "insight into an early phase of the composer[']s music".[3]