I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

I was prepared to be visited by my spirit animal — I was just sitting there saying some sort of prayer inviting that presence into my life. Her harp teacher Diana Stork taught her the basic pattern of four beats against three which creates an interlocking shifting pattern that can be heard on Ys particularly in the middle section of "Sawdust & Diamonds. She is the second cousin twice removed of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom of California.