Sapropelic Pycnic is the Drag City and
world debut of music presented under
the name of Ka Baird. While this
record is a commencement of many
sorts, it is in no way a mere beginning.
Ka's ritual is well underway here, her
craft clearly already a dedicated mastery; it finds her on the hunt for new
discoveries with a humble desire for the
transfigured, the sublime.
This has been among the goals
since early times, when Ka was one of
the founding members of experimental
psychlings Spires That In the Sunset Rise. Formed in 2001 out of the
Chicago scene, and described by late
guitar legend Jack Rose as a "female
Sun City Girls," Spires' sisterhood
of sound deepened the New Folk slant
with an array of avant- and world-flavoured directions drawing them ever-farther into the source.
