Paige Alice Naylor

The Unearthing is the debut album by Chicago-based multimedia artist and electronic musician, Paige Alice Naylor. This work is a passage into limbo, an intermediate state between living and dying through the lens of tragic loss and metaphors of more-than-human life. Paige is a classically trained vocalist with a specialty in vocal, electronic processing. For The Unearthing she uses her voice, electronics, Pure Data synthesis, a broken turntable, vinyl samples, field recordings, and synthesizer to create a holding place for metamorphosis. These songs and sonic textures were recorded and produced from 2020-2023 in Naylor’s home studio, upstate New York, and in residency at Pachamanka in the driftless region of Northwest Illinois. There she formed the concept and text for the work told from the land’s perspective and its constant cycles of death and rebirth.

The Unearthing is a journey through atopia, a transitory space, of a new euphoric ambient genre. It insists that to be full of life is to be full of death, and to not be afraid.