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Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos

by Ka Baird

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    — Silk screened, hand stamped and numbered LTD Artist Edition LP of 100 copies includes a 7” x 9”, 20 page booklet containing Ka Baird’s original illustrations and writing

    Includes digital pre-order of Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around March 22, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $34 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    — Standard edition LP includes printed inner sleeve

    Includes digital pre-order of Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around March 22, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $24 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    — Japanese import CD w/ Obi officially licensed and pressed in Japan by Plancha

    Includes digital pre-order of Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around March 22, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $16 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    — Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos Standard Black LP bundled with Respires Transparent Blue w/ Purple and Red Splatter LP (Repress)
    — LPs will ship together following Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos release
    — Additional bundle options available at www.rvng.com

    Includes digital pre-order of Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around March 22, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $45 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases March 22, 2024

      $12 USD  or more

     

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Gate II
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Gate III
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Gate IV
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Gate V
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Gate IX 05:32 video
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Gate X
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Gate XI

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Ka Baird’s Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos intertwines elements of the New York based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer’s ecstatic live performances within minimalistic, visceral compositions that expand in scope and sound through collaboration. The album’s eleven movements manifest as shapeshifting invocations defined by their own multiplicity; the emotional outcome of circumstance and grief, played against rigorous conceptualism and musical craft. Featuring a cast of contributors from all corners of the contemporary avant garde community and mixing depth and dimension from Randall Dunn, Bearings is a work of profound abstraction and focus, within which sonorous elements, structure, and meaning reach a single, unified form.

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releases March 22, 2024

Written, produced and recorded by Ka Baird
Mixed by Ka Baird and Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin Studio (Brooklyn, NY)
Mastered and cut by Josh Bonati for Bonati Mastering (Brooklyn, NY)
Artwork by Ka Baird
Design by Will Work for Good

Ka Baird: Voice, electronics, flutes, piano
Andrew Bernstein: Saxophone
Max Eilbacher: Electronics, flute processing
gabby fluke-mogul: Violin
Greg Fox: Percussion
Henry Fraser: Contrabass
Joanna Mattrey: Viola
John McCowen: Contrabass clarinet
Jon Mueller: Gongs
Camilla Padgitt-Coles: Crystal bowls, waterphone
Troy Schafer: Strings, saw
Chris Williams: Trumpet, electronics
Nate Wooley: Trumpet
Nisa: Purrs

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Ka Baird Brooklyn, New York

Ka Baird is a musician, performer, composer and sound designer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and electroacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. ... more

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