word, sound, movement
Tai Woodville
poet, singer-songwriter, writer, healing guide
About Tai Woodville
artworks
Tai Woodville’s work lives where poetry, music, movement and mysticism converge. A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet ("POLLEN," Finishing Line Press) with a bachelor of arts in literature, Tai's writing appears in Atticus Review, Visitant, LIT Angels, and more. As Flight Call, she crafts luminous avant-pop journeys like her debut album (as Flight Call), HOMEWORLD, praised by Vortex Music Magazine as “a light-filled voyage from inner space to outer space.”
origins
“Woodville is literally a starseed hailing from a family of artists and performers… Born to actors Edward Albert (Butterflies Are Free) and Kate Woodville (Star Trek), and granddaughter of Eddie Albert (Roman Holiday) and Margo (Lost Horizon), her family’s history is as stellar as her own Flight Call persona.”
—Andrea Janda, Vortex Music Magazine
"These are poems cherishing impermanent beauty; delicate, seductive, they braid hope and youthful sex with heartfelt mourning, Thanatos and Eros brilliantly intertwined."
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")
The poems in POLLEN are thoughtful, meditative, and exciting. 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)
Flight Call performs at SANCTUM: Art Experience and Synth Sh
On February 7, 2025, Flight Call performed live at SANCTUM: Art Show + Synth Concert at Past Lives Maker’s Space and Gallery (2808 SE 9th Ave, Portland), opening the Portland Winter Lights Festival.
CANVAS REBEL MAGAZINE: Meet Tai Woodville
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.
Flight Call performs at Red Nation Film Festival
On November 17, 2024, Tai performed as Flight Call at the 29th RNCI Red Nation Awards at the Beverly Hills Wilshire Hotel. Presented by the Red Nation Celebration Institute, this nationally televised special honors fair and accurate portrayals of Indigenous peoples in entertainment. Tai’s performance celebrated American Indian Heritage Month and her personal connection to RNCI through her late father, Edward Albert, who was deeply involved in environmental stewardship and the preservation of Native American cultural heritage.
A Conversation w/Topanga New Times
“Imagine a place of perfect peace and tranquility, full of light and crystalline beauty. That is the vision 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 is only part of this multilayered project..."
— Topanga New Times (excerpted)