Itasca - 'Layman's Banquet' (Official Audio)

Itasca's "Open To Chance" will be released September 30th, 2016 on Paradise of Bachelors.

The music of L.A.-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kayla Cohen is mutable and multivalent, richly allusive of the hermetic worlds of private-press canyon-cult mystics and East Coast noiseniks alike. Her adept fingerstyle guitar work—nimble but unshowy, always at the service of framing her plaintively unspooling modal progressions
and gorgeous, moonlit voice—centers these melancholy pastorales in a hazy, heat-mirage space equally suggestive of familiarity and distance, community and anomie. Itasca’s enchanting, acid folk inflected PoB debut is also the first to feature a full band.

[armanddimeo]

I was out of town and heard this on a local college radio station. Fortunately, the DJ identified the song and artist and I was able to track it down. I was touched by the haunting beauty of this song, the intricate finger picking guitar work of the artist, and the poetic lyrics. It is reminiscent of early Joni Mitchell and very different from most music being made today. Well done!