title: Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga
text: # Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga
  
  Tides is an album by American musician Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, initially released in 2014 and later re-released on 11 January 2019 as Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga through the label Touchtheplants.
  
  ## Background and recording
  
  Smith recorded the album in 2013 using a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer after her mother, a yoga teacher, wanted music she could play during her classes. It includes field recordings of "wind chimes, forest sounds, birds chirping, [and] steam valves". The album will be the first release on Smith's new label, Touchtheplants.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Fact said the album provides an "insight into an early phase of the composer[']s music".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  Adapted from Bandcamp.
  
  