Kintsugi

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There are at least three artists named Kintsugi: 1) kintsugi, a collaboration and recording project. 2) Kintsugi, Vocaloid producer. 3) Kintsugi, a UK bass music producer. 1) kintsugi is the collaboration and recording project of Oakland-based siblings, Kessiah and Stephan Gordon. In the wake of their mother’s passing in 2019, the two invited one another in an emergent practice of familial healing through grief. What is possible when committed to active listening and sharing; with loved ones, ourselves, and the generations that bring us together. Over the course of several months and seasonal shifts - against the alpine landscape of the North Cascades in Washington and snowy canyons of Utah - kintsugi produced a collection of eleven songs, eleven dialogues (serendipitously, the number of months which separate Kessiah and Stephan in age). This album, entitled life in death, is an instrumental expression of processing the physical loss of a mother and both grandmothers within a year, and the sudden call to learn how to communicate with these transitioned matriarchs. In the process of writing life in death, the two siblings deeply felt an opportunity to serve as a vessel for their memories, experiences, and lives; a truly intimate experience of generational conversation. At its core, kintsugi and life in death are an embodiment of intention; a commitment to explore the full depths of grief and healing, to serve as a channel for ancestral voices that no longer have the physi

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