“Tiny World” comes from Kai Orion’s new album ‘Start to End,’ which released on April 28th, 2019. Kai Orion is an experimental-pop artist from Washington, D.C., whose career began in 2014, when he won a cover contest held by indie rock band The National for his cover of their song “I Need My Girl,” using household objects as instruments. Recently, Kai was selected to be one of 20 musicians worldwide participating in Beatcamp, a 4 day recording session at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath, England May of 2019.

‘Start to End’ is the follow-up to Kai’s debut album ‘Pots & Pans,’ in which Kai used only found-sounds from different everyday scenes as instruments to accompany vocals. On ‘Start to End,’ Kai continues the experimental/found-sound exploration but with a more accessible format, using traditional rock instruments alongside less conventional sounds like wine glasses, found percussion, and beatbox flute.

For example, the main guitar “riff” in Tiny World was played on a homemade cigar-box resonator guitar. “I also wanted to go for a more organic, live sound – as opposed to the electronic feel of my last album – and I was experimenting with mic placement and recording everything at a distance within the same space,” Kai says.

Links
https://soundcloud.com/kaiorion