Kaia Kater (from the album Strange Medicine

Kaia Kater (from the album Strange Medicine

Kaia Kater (from the album Strange Medicine available on Kaia Kater/Free Dirt Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Kaia Kater has made a record that’s part Americana, part mellow down-beat lounge, and all good. Strange Medicine is indeed that, an interesting combination that rubs elbows with subtle https://amzn.to/3KFLWbVelectro vibes while also being ripe for early morning listening. There’s the opener in “The Witch”, where Kater is joined by Aoife O’Donovan, a mellow and dramatic opener that also serves as reminder of a weird and tragic time in early America.
Both “Maker Taker” and “In Montreal” have Kaia Kater’s soft vocals joined by plucking banjo giving the cuts an old-time vibe against the melody’s atmospherics, the latter with its drum beats having a trance rhythm. The cut “The Internet” is truly stunning, a call on what is arguably the most important and perhaps controversial invention of the last 30 years. Taj Mahal jumps in for the world-music influenced “Fedon”, Kaia Kater singing of ‘cheshire cat grins’ in “Floodlights” while “Often as the Autumn” sounds as if it was pulled from the public domain. Kater’s banjo returns for “History in Motion”, offering delicate support to her whispered vocals, and the closer in “Tigers” is ambient Folk bliss.
Strange Medicine plays like a Folk record, of course, but there’s world music influences and avant-rhythms along with a theatrical score vibe and Kaia Kater’s razor-sharp smart lyrics. Not your everyday Folk record; this is one tossing wonderful curve-balls.  (by Bryant Liggett)
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