Shift Circuit is an 11-track alternative indie album about transformation as a circulatory system of eroticism and felt sense. Kamra’s first full length record shows just how wild their imagination is.

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Kamra (b. 1992, Minneapolis) is an American artist and singer living in many places. Defying categorical genres, they explore every medium, from text-based works and participatory relational practices to ecological interventions.

Their work has been featured on numerous occasions around the world, in such institutions as Dia Art Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, The People’s Forum, Printed Matter, ARIEL in Denmark, and TUO TUO in Finland. They have shared the stage with the likes of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, MOONRIIVR, St. John’s Wort, Flung, Yaz Lancaster, Kalbells, and mmeadows.

In 2018, Kamra founded Activation Residency, an artist residency program in the western Catskill mountains of New York that unfolds around the sociocultural choreography of its artists-in-residence while offering local organic meals, alternative skill share workshops and the opportunity to connect with nature. In addition to these residences, Kamra runs Forest Fringe Farm, a diversified vegetable farm and gathering space located in Bethel, New York.

Kamra’s work is grounded in erotic, post-activist, and animist thinking. Their music takes an electroacoustic approach using field recordings, live tracking, and MIDI sound design. They perform voice entirely raw and forward from soaring falsettos to a rich lower register. Their primary genre is folk paired with ambient, nu jazz, and soul/R&B.