Songs We Love: Ka Baird, 'Metamorphoses'
Ka Baird's hypnotic flute playing is looped into a wordless mantra, "a back and forth between the material and spiritual," she tells NPR.
"Sapropelic" is a word for earthly ooze formed by decaying matter, and an apt description of Ka Baird's organic, yet natured-drenched solo. Baird, a member of the psych-folk group Spires In The Sunset Rise, makes healthy use of electronic processing, often applied to her hypnotic flute playing. One of the simplest and most beautiful examples is the album's fourth track, "Metamorphoses," which consists solely of Baird's flute, edited and looped into a wordless mantra capable of inducing meditative states.
