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Ka Baird is a musician, performer, composer, and sound designer based in New York City. A long-term member of cult psych-folk band Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Baird released their debut solo album Sapropelic Pycnic in 2017 on label Drag City. Its folky, flutey loops were laced with electronic intervention, vocal gusto, fervent energy, and an experimental psych edge that has been stripped back to its core in forthcoming release Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (2024) on label RVNG Intl.. “I am obsessed with hyper-presence and physicality,” they say in their artist statement. “I want to spew sound around, much like spit or the exhalation of a breath . . .” The music surely has a physical and bodily quality to it, but it also has a peculiar sense of lightness and airiness. It’s gas-like in a way: diffusing and expanding and growing in all directions from a single point in Baird’s lungs.