{"id":306265,"date":"2021-07-23T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amythyst-kiah-turns-trauma-into-roots-music-triumph\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T01:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:00:59","slug":"amythyst-kiah-turns-trauma-into-roots-music-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amythyst-kiah-turns-trauma-into-roots-music-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amythyst Kiah turns trauma into roots-music triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Amythyst Kiah turns trauma into roots-music triumph<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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For breakout artist Amythyst Kiah<\/a>, making her critically acclaimed new album, \u201cWary + Strange,\u201d was like musical therapy, helping unpack the trauma of her mother\u2019s suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve dealt with social<\/a> anxiety and dissociating my feelings and repressing my feelings for a very, very long time, and it really kind of sunk in and solidified when my mom committed suicide when I was 17,\u201d said Kiah, 34, who will open for Brandi Carlile at Forest Hills Stadium Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI interpreted my mom\u2019s suicide as that she didn\u2019t love me and she didn\u2019t want to stick around. I now know that that\u2019s not how suicide works, but I was 17, so my coping mechanism was to keep my distance from people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confessional intimacy in \u201cWary + Strange\u201d \u2014 a rootsy trail mix of folk, country and blues, with a distinctly indie edge \u2014 brings the listener in close as the Tennessee singer-songwriter works through her \u201cweird stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amythyst Kiah unpacks the trauma of her mother\u2019s suicide on \u201cWary + Strange.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Credit: Sandlin Gaither<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact, Kiah said, \u201cpretty much all of the songs on the record were written either right before or during the time when I started going to therapy in 2016. And what\u2019s been amazing is that people have been responding to my music in the same way that I\u2019ve responded to music \u2026 as something meant to heal.\u201d <\/p>\n

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