NEEEEWWWW ep!
well newish. new in april.

Check it out!!

http://kitwilson-yang.bandcamp.com/

xo!
kit

upcoming performances!

thursday november 15 at the holy oak 1241 bloor st. w.  with richard laviolette and grapefruit colour
drs at 9 show at 9:30 $5-$10 more info here

tuesday november 20 trans day of rememberance at the 519 church st. community centre   happening
at the 519 from 7-9 , i so excited to be asked to perform a few songs to help mark the day !

thursday november 22 certain days calendar launch at the hallam st. house in toronto. also stoked to be asked! show starts at 7 (i think...) pwyc (fer sure).

exciting!

Hey!
So this coming Thursday, not tomorrow, but the one after, I'm gonna be playing a show at the Holy Oak, in Toronto,  with Richard Laviolette as part of a series of fundraiser shows being put on by Sarah Mangle to help make a movie about her gay aunts in Vermont. It'll be great!

Richard also just helped me record a few songs that I'm mixing very slowly... :-)
put put goes the kit machine...

till next time

xo!

october october

as always, it's been awhile. hey folks.
i just finished a well spaced out string of speaking/reading/singing presentations with a wonderful new collaborator elisha lim . they were fabulous company for our intense and lovely presentation about transitioning, isolation and how we've learned to cope or not cope with those things. we went to a few university classrooms and some community spaces around ontario. what a great and terrifying thing it was to be seen as worthy of speaking to a trans experience in classrooms. thank you everyone that came out!
in ottawa a person approached me and asked if i had written the last song i played. the song was in front of the tv. he mentioned that just before he came to the presentation, his brother had been playing that very song in his living room! what an amazing complement! i'm deeply moved that people relate so much to that song. thanks.

in other exciting news, i have a new zine, ancient water, new land, which is available for mail order if someone should so desire. also i reprinted four heavens and the rain, so there are lots and lots of copies of those as well should y'all want so light reading.

more soon!

FINALLY.

the download links have been updated! finally. i have to admit that i find it funny that shortly after i get all of the albums on line, which took about two years longer than i said it would, mega upload get's shut down. thanks to the internet archive we're a go. sorry to anyone that got impatient or annoyed.
: )

EVERYTHING IS FREE NOW.

hey folks. it has been almost exactly one year since i posted. so i've been a little slow with the creativing. it happens. i have however finally posted my albums for free download which i think i told about ten people i'd do in two weeks more than a year ago. i'm sorry it took so long folks. but they are here. check in the releases section. there still remains one album i want to post, but that'll come soon. as well i plan on putting up the pdf's of the zines. maybe sometime soon i'll make something new. transitioning (from male to female) has proven quite a distraction. who knew?
xo!

Free Comp!

hey folks. it's been a while since i've updated, but i've got a good one this time.
a free compilation, featuring yours truly and a whole bunch of other great artists.
it's called 'can i punk mail my heart' available here

cheers!

new albums up!

finally i've posted something about my new albums.
i'm planning on getting down to booking some shows soon. really...
but right now it's pretty outside...

lots of tour dates!

hey folks that might be reading this.
it's fall and the the wind is changing. i'm super excited to travel and see the east coast again. i've been adding more and more dates to the tour. their posted on the myspace page. the mail order will get updated sometime soon i hope so y'all can get things that way. if you want. who ever writes first and mail orders would be the first person to ever mail order an album from here. that means, goodies...
*hint*
please allow 4-6 weeks delivery...
heh.

tour!

well the time has come with new releases and such, for me to tour again.
i'm excited.
so far i've got shows in montreal, toronto, guelph, hamilton, moncton, halifax, charlettetown. there'll likely be some shows in st. john's as well. and maybe some others. check the myspace page for the deeeeets.

new stuff!!

so, today i got my ears pierced. but that's not why i'm writing.
i'm going to pick up the new discs from the plant on monday (i hope), and i've been working on the booklet for the new solo album tonight (the other booklets are much smaller and are done).
i've been drumming for a band in montreal called sissyfist . (the name is a hidden link....) (pretty sneaky eh? i do that sometimes...)
also southern souls finished the video and i really like it. it's for a song called 'in front of the t.v. you can watch it by clicking on this word . the song also appears on a compilation called 'can i punk mail my heart' that i'm pretty sure you can get a copy of here .
i'm planning on starting to book a tour for september. i'd like to go out east and back. if you've got a house, or know of a house/not a bar, that's a fun place to play for a queer tranny, i'd love to hear about it and maybe we can set something up.
so things are coming. hopefully the video and the sissyfist recordings whet your appetite for more...

i have not forgotten you, blog...

for anyone that's curious...
it's been ages since i wrote anything on this blog. it seems weird to me to update a website that is about me when not much has been going on in regards to the art that i make. more personally, i just moved to montreal in december. i moved. that was a big thing... but some small updates...
there are three albums reeeeealllly close to being done or that are done and just need to be pressed:
1. kit wilson-yang and germaine liu
2. chris yang and sarah ayton - little brown
3. the very first kit wilson-yang solo album... yup.

southern souls just filmed some songs today, so some videos will be coming soon and drawn and quarterly has copies of 'the rain' and 'the story of the mountain and the cloud'
more things soon, and hopefully more zines in more places.


lots of love

kit

eureka! the album!

finally it's here!
i haven't figured out how to make it so y'all can download it, but you can listen to it here. i'm excited. this is the band i was in with tegan (violin) and mike (drums). we only played a few shows, but they were memorable. if anyone that's really saavy with computers can tell me a good way to make it so people can download this please contact me kit.magnolia@gmail.com . cheers. the songs are short, with quick changes and odd time signatures. some of them are real pretty. i hope you enjoy it...

the rain

a new story book. this one is about a time when all the world was rain. and all the world turned grey. and all the sounds i made were the rain because the only sound i heard was the rain. and the miraculous turn of events that lead to....
well, i don't want to ruin the ending. it's available through the mailorder for now, other places soon. yup.

new things!

sometime soon, changes of state will be available through zunior.com and and i went to the local music store and now all the albums i have in print (may all yr children be dragons, hands and feat(s), and changes of state are available from a store (!) called ground floor music locate at 13 quebec st. in guelph. i have three shows coming up. check it:

november 28- 178 york rd. guelph w/ partytime, bethanne fischer, and dave hudson 7pm
pwyc benefit show for the brantneighbourhood group
november 29- the tranzac toronto w/ the doesy does 2:30 pm
ladyfest!!
december 11- the ship hamilton w/tba 9pm (i'll get back to y'all)

links and a video and links!

so a bit ago the first ever chris yang video was made by mitch at phil's house. phil plays in a sweet band called lakeriser. it was a really fun show, i was a bit tired and grumpy, so apologies way too late to anyone i may have had an odd interaction with... sorry. i was real excited to be playing a show in hamilton with two ladies on the bill who played AMAZING sets. awesome to see. i hope i hope there is lots more. y'know? so so check out these links as well secret annie shaw and and sarah good.
oh yeah. the video is here.

autumn in gwuh-elph.

brings the promise of new love...
since i last did this here internet updating thing... i basically had a sweet august.
and september has been for the most part amazing. i have just finished a book of poems called 'four heavens' which you can find in the release section of this blooog. coming soon is another story book, and a whole lot of music. a whole lot.

changes of state

changes of state is an eight song e.p. i recorded sometime in the winter. there is a booklet that has eight pictures in it that i think would make an excellent short film (attention film makers!) it's pretty bare bones but my friends seem to love it. which ultimately is what counts. you can hear some of the tracks on myspace and you can order it by e-mailing me at iamtheyang@gmail.com, it's 6 bucks in the mail or interesting trades.