Kaia Kater Talks About Her New Album Strange Medicine

Interview by Stephan Boissonneault
Genres and styles : Art Folk / Chamber Folk / Experimental Folk / Folk

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Kaia Kater shocked the folk music world with her 2018 album Grenades, but six years later, she has now released a new album, somewhat more of a cinematic odyssey with folky elements.

She’s still strapped with the banjo on the new album, Strange Medicine, on a few tracks, but also worked with drums, bass, a horn section, strings, synthesizers… It’s a bigger, more ambitious album for Kaia Kater and we spoke to her about that process, inspiration, working on film projects, her acceptance of playing the banjo and navigating the world as a black folk artist.

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