why we love this
Linear expectations dissolve amidst these shifting synth patterns that play with perspective. Could soft dissonance bring comfort instead of chaos? Could a circular melodic pattern become an ever-ascending ladder? This record finds refuge in the transitory.
about the record
“Music is my forever cove,” writes Portland, Oregon’s Luke Wyland about the ideas that give shape to Kuma Cove, an album released under his own name. Though named after a real place on the Oregon coast, Kuma Cove casts its gaze far beyond the sightseer’s line of vision.
Recorded live in the studio, the album blurs the boundaries between computer-based composition and electro-acoustic instrumentation. It is a meditation on flow, borders, transitory states, and shelter. Composed of discontinuous ripples and repetitions—“I’m forever searching for a better descriptor than looping, which feels too simple and flattened by overuse,” Wyland says—the music is shaped into richly emotive arcs.
Informed by his experience as a person who stutters, it is also an album about identity, self-expression, and the energies that move through and across what we perceive as linear time. These energies flow like floodwaters seeking an exit, like streams running into the sea.
- 1 - Grounded 6:59
- 2 - Click Clap 7:46
- 3 - Unwinding 8:23
- 4 - Chimes 3:37
- 5 - Voice Valley 5:13
- 6 - Pitch & Bowed 3:35
- 7 - Be Ya 2:53
- 8 - Pollinators 6:12
- 9 - Kuma Cove 5:49
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- 1 - Grounded 6:59
- 2 - Click Clap 7:46
- 3 - Unwinding 8:23
- 4 - Chimes 3:37
- 5 - Voice Valley 5:13
- 6 - Pitch & Bowed 3:35
- 7 - Be Ya 2:53
- 8 - Pollinators 6:12
- 9 - Kuma Cove 5:49
why we love this
Linear expectations dissolve amidst these shifting synth patterns that play with perspective. Could soft dissonance bring comfort instead of chaos? Could a circular melodic pattern become an ever-ascending ladder? This record finds refuge in the transitory.
about the record
“Music is my forever cove,” writes Portland, Oregon’s Luke Wyland about the ideas that give shape to Kuma Cove, an album released under his own name. Though named after a real place on the Oregon coast, Kuma Cove casts its gaze far beyond the sightseer’s line of vision.
Recorded live in the studio, the album blurs the boundaries between computer-based composition and electro-acoustic instrumentation. It is a meditation on flow, borders, transitory states, and shelter. Composed of discontinuous ripples and repetitions—“I’m forever searching for a better descriptor than looping, which feels too simple and flattened by overuse,” Wyland says—the music is shaped into richly emotive arcs.
Informed by his experience as a person who stutters, it is also an album about identity, self-expression, and the energies that move through and across what we perceive as linear time. These energies flow like floodwaters seeking an exit, like streams running into the sea.
