Episode 155: Kacey Johansing

Playing with Spoon in a Battle of the Bands, driving a U-Haul from Colorado to San Francisco, and cohesiveness. Kacey Johansing “Kacey Johansing’s latest album Year Away will be released July 28 via Night Bloom Records. In March of 2020, after learning that a dear friend’s life was coming to an end, Johansing sat down and in one sitting wrote the song “Daffodils”. An elegiac tribute to someone facing death with grace and curiosity, the lyrics confront Johansing’s own mortality by observing the brief lifespan of a Hlower. Only a week later when the world came to an abrupt standstill, she soon found herself processing this recent loss while trying to make sense of a new global reality. Across the ensuing months, Johansing found herself increasingly untethered by a world of isolation and political upheaval. Having been a frequent touring member of bands like Hand Habits and Fruit Bats, and often being called into the studio to lend her harmonies and multi-instrumental talents to records, Johansing’s phone no longer rang. Living in Los Angeles she feared her musical community was vanishing, as friends and collaborators continually announced they were leaving the city. It was in returning to her piano nightly that she found the greatest solace, feverishly writing the songs that would be collected on her next album. Resulting from this new sense of time and focus was a deepening of her songwriting. As Johansing recalls, “I felt like a metamorphosis happened during that time. There was a lot of personal growth and healing.”” Excerpt from https://www.kaceyjohansingmusic.com/about-1 Kacey Johansing: Bandcamp: https://kaceyjohansing.bandcamp.com/music Instagram: @kaceyjohansing Website: https://www.kaceyjohansingmusic.com Merch: https://kaceyjohansing.bandcamp.com/merch NightBloom Records: Bandcamp: https://nightbloomrecords.bandcamp.com/artists Instagram: @nightbloomrecords Website: https://www.nightbloomrecords.com Merch: https://www.nightbloomrecords.com/merch The Vineyard: Instagram: @thevineyardpodcast Website: https://www.thevineyardpodcast.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thevineyardpodcast