{"product_id":"okay-kaya-sap-cassette","title":"Okay Kaya - SAP [Cassette]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: MC \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: JAG433CASS\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0656605243382\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 04 Nov 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Even my subconscious is self-conscious,” Okay Kaya sings on ‘Inside of a Plum’, giving us a sense of the mental state she entered while making ‘SAP’, an album she wrote, performed, engineered, and produced alone, sometimes spending weeks at a time without social interaction. This is a concept album about consciousness in which Okay Kaya focuses her trademark combination of abstraction and wit on what happens to her mind unaccompanied, on her tendency to feel less like a human and more like the sticky secretion of a tree.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e After releasing her Spellemann Award-winning album ‘Watch This Liquid Pour Itself’ in January of 2020, Kaya left her home in New York and moved to Europe to create and show her various interdisciplinary exhibitions. Among others, she made an installation that amplified music made underwater and an interactive sculpture based on Jungian sandplay therapy for children. Between her exhibits, Kaya recorded through lockdowns by herself in the loaned studios of generous friends.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘SAP’ first grew from the first single, ‘Spinal Tap’, about Kaya wandering in Berlin, tree-touching. “Sap reminds me of the bodily functions I need to remember to do, like sleep. One might say it ‘resinates.’” The album was further inspired by Ketamine Therapy which is discussed in ‘Inside of a Plum’. Kaya explains, “The doctor said this treatment grows literal physical branches in your brain.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e As she experimented with ego death, the subject of her song ‘Jazzercise’, Kaya found herself writing in the voices of fictional characters she’d encountered in other\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epeople’s stories. In ‘Jolene From Her Own Perspective’, she imagines Dolly Parton’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enemesis responding to her song. In ‘Origin Story’, Kaya writes as a mythical goddess frustrated with her creation myth. In ‘I’ve Spent Forever planning a Crisis’, Kaya responds to Cassavetes’ film, ‘A Woman Under The Influence’, writing from the perspective of the story’s children.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Okay Kaya’s investigations of mind-body come along with sexy dance beats,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eunpredictable interlocking synths, delicate soft guitars, and close-to-the-mike R\u0026amp;B whispering. But Kaya likes her falsettos cracking and her soul-inspired hooks careening wildly, a beautiful chaos that somehow fits together.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e When she returned to New York, Kaya was excited to collaborate again, to get\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efriends to “bless the record.” She invited friends to Gaia Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to sing or play an instrument. Most songs on the album unfold with guest performances from artists as varied as deem spencer, Taja Cheek of L’Rain, Nick\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHakim and Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Just as the recording process began with isolation and ended with friends, ‘SAP’\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estarts with the internal and leads outside to romance, to lovers who serve as funhouse mirrors, reflecting Kaya back to herself from different angles. In ‘Pearl Gurl’, Kaya harmonizes with her multi-tracked second self and sings her uncertain conclusion: “If love is not the answer, it’s one hell of a question.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP available on Opaque Tan vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMood into Object Personified\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJolene From Her Own Perspective\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrigin Story\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJazzercise\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePathologically Yours\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpinal Tap\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInside of a Plum\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRorschach\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Regards to Your Tweet\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDep. Chamber\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePearl Gurl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lesson\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI’ve spent Forever planning a Crisis\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike a Liver\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWeltschmerz\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42071578509468,"sku":"JAG433CASS","price":8.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_ac256337-b834-424d-91ff-8af701c64039.webp?v=1665494416","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/okay-kaya-sap-cassette","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}