Chamber Folk from Portland, Oregon.
"Dramatic, emotional folk-pop that swirls and eddies in ripples of sadness and hope."
-The Mercury
The son of an acting coach and a therapist, Kite seems to have it in his DNA to blend the dramatic and analytic. Each musical wave crest and fall mirrors a turn in the story. Instruments rest for minutes before suddenly emerging. Emotions and motifs sustain and then drop into oblivion. The tone switches suddenly from accusation to epiphany. It is the sound of someone going through it.
Upcoming Shows
Discography
Drunk Lil Guy
Out September 3rd, 2021.
Kite harbors deep appreciation for both the harmonic palette and the spirt of collectivism employed by fellow art/folk/pop auteurs Steely Dan, Fleet Foxes or Sufjan Stevens. While no stranger to composition himself, he enlisted a team for Drunk Lil Guy; UK Producer Sebastian Rogers, Laura Gershman on Oboe/English Horn, Alan Cook on Percussion, Colin Corner on the upright bass, with Esme Schwall providing cello and backing vocals. The agency newly given to bandmates brings a three dimensionality to the music. Each instrumentalist is an established voice, rather than movie-strings backing.
Kite, Noah S.
A work of several years and two continents penned in the throws of terrorism, between classes taught at Parisian elementary schools, in the public square minutes from the Chateau, in Italian living rooms, sketched on Hungarian packing slips, in friends closets, on the cheap carpet of a new apartment, in the Marais, and on a bunk bed at Camp Arrah Wanna.