the cosmic bard
"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.
"These are poems cherishing impermanent beauty; delicate, seductive [...] Thanatos and Eros brilliantly intertwined. Seldom can one rightly speak of greatness in a poet's first book; rare to know that these shatteringly lovely recognitions will be read and reread far into the future."
Barry Spacks, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate (on "Pollen")
"Tai Woodville has found a way of entering the personal story at unexpected angles, her language rich and wholly particular. This is a strange and startling work, an astonishing voice. These poems make the reader hungry to read her again, and again."
Samantha Dunn, author (on "Pollen")
Woodville knows how to employ a lyric moment and how to tell a story, even when the story is a difficult one."
Mathew Dickman, poet (on "Pollen")
HOMEWORLD is a personal compilation of magic spells and secret codes, an exploded starfield of glimmering images that are helpful, healing, disarming, diaphanous, prismatic, piercing, and lyrical [...] taking the listener on a light-filled, avant-pop journey from inner space to outer space. "
- Andrea Janda, Vortex Music Magazine (on Flight Call)
Flight Call’s debut avant-pop album (the conceptual project of writer and musician Tai Woodville) came at just the right time. It’s a gorgeous, shimmery, uplifting ray of hope, and one I return to now whenever I’m feeling low [...] "
-Alissa Hattman (author, SIFT)
Save the Date
UPCOMING LIVE EVENT:
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!
An Interview with Tai Woodville by CANVAS REBEL MAGAZINE
Canvas Rebel Interviews Tai
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."
Honest Jams Podcast Appearance
Flight Call performs at Red Nation Film Festival
The Red Nation Celebration Institute's Red Nation Awards, a national television special, highlights the importance of inclusion in the entertainment industry by promoting fair and accurate portrayals of Indigenous peoples.
In celebration of American Indian Heritage Month, Tai performed as Flight Call, honoring her personal connection to RNCI through her late father, Edward Albert, who was deeply involved in environmental and Native American cultural heritage preservation.
About Tai Woodville
A Conversation w/Topanga New Times
"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" [..]