"If we don't claim our light we get lost in the dark."
Tai Woodville is an American poet, writer, singer/songwriter & performer based in the Pacific Northwest.
Tai Woodville is an American poet, writer, singer/songwriter & performer based in the Pacific Northwest.
Tai Woodville is the author of the poetry collection Pollen (Finishing Line Press, 2011), praised by Poet Laureate Barry Spacks as "shatteringly lovely" and described by author Samantha Dunn as "an astonishing voice." Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Woodville's work has appeared in Atticus Review, Visitant, Lit Angels, Pinegrove Literary Review, and elsewhere. Tai's album HOMEWORLD, released under the moniker Flight Call -- celebrated as "a light-filled, avant-pop journey from inner space to outer space" by Vortex Music Magazine -- is currently streaming on all platforms.
Barry Spacks, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate (on "Pollen")
Samantha Dunn, author (on "Pollen")
Mathew Dickman, poet (on "Pollen")
- Andrea Janda, Vortex Music Magazine (on Flight Call)
-Alissa Hattman (author, SIFT)
Flight Call is scheduled to perform live, kicking off the Portland Winter Lights Festival on February 7th 2025 at Past Lives Gallery (2808 SE 9th Ave, PDX). Details to come!
CANVAS REBEL asks Tai questions about risk, resilience, the healing power of art & how she views her mission as an artist.
"Art is a tunnel back to ourselves [...] There are many reasons to despair, but I want my work to be one reason people feel hope."
Fresh off the heels of completing the National Novel Writing Month challenge and a season of promoting her new album, "HOMEWORLD" by Flight Call, Tai returns to the Honest Jams Podcast. Alongside hosts, Portland musicians A. Walker Spring and Ayal Alves, they dig into meaty topics such as cosmic triggers, consensus reality, spiritual comedy, animism, the nature of consciousness, AI sentience, accessing the timeless self, modular synthesizers, taking creative risks, time-based art, perfectionism busting, the artistic process, and more. Tai shares "Compass," a single from "HOMEWORLD," while the hosts present original songs inspired by "Compass" as a prompt.
" When I spoke with Tai Woodville about her electronic conceptual music project persona, Flight Call, she was bathed in an ethereal pink light, a window frame at her back looking onto a forested landscape [...]
"Woodville is literally a starseed hailing from a family of artists and performers. Born and raised in Southern California as the only child of actors Edward Albert (Butterflies Are Free, starring opposite Goldie Hawn) and Kate Woodville (Star Trek), Woodville’s paternal grandfather was actor Eddie Albert (Roman Holiday, Green Acres) and her paternal grandmother was actress and dancer, Margo (Lost Horizon, The Leopard Man).
"Both her mother and father also played alien characters at one point in their careers. Kate played alien queen Natira on Star Trek: The Original Series, while Edward played Bajoran alien Zayra on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Her grandfather also starred in the 70’s Disney classic, Escape to Witch Mountain, about two orphans who discover their extraterrestrial origins. Quite the stellar background for Woodville's own character to emerge" [...]
--Andrea Janda, Vortex Magazine
"Imagine a place of perfect peace and tranquility, full of light and crystalline beauty. That is the vision that singer-songwriter and performance artist Tai Woodville has conjured for Homeworld, a concept album that is part space rock, part new age electronica and part performance art piece. Tai describes it as 'meditative art-pop,' but that description is only part of this multilayered project [...]
'For the album, I created a fantasy being I could inhabit,' Tai explains. Her 'stardust persona' is inspired in part by David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust—but it has its genesis in an early memory of her father, actor and activist Edward Albert.
“When I was little he used to ask me Zen koans,” she recalls. “I didn’t know that’s what they were, they were just questions. One day he asked me, “‘Do you remember your face before you were born?’ And I reached back and did have a feeling. I knew, and it was like sunlight on water" [..]
"'A Piece of the Map' delivers major Björk-feels, like an electric flower plucked off Vespertine, featuring harpist Sage Fisher of Dolphin Midwives." (Vortex Music Magazine)
Atticus Review publishes video poem collaboration, "Her Animal Inheritance, Vol. 2" (2019) by Tai Woodville, Sara Jackson-Holman & Alissa Hattman--created during an artist residency at Oregon's Historic Sou' Wester retreat in Seaview.