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Brazelton/Naphtali
Biography
Never one to shy away from musical challenges, Kitty Brazelton is an experimental, risk-taking vocalist, composer, and flutist who has often brought elements of free jazz and classical to art rock, avant-garde rock, and alternative rock. Over the years, Brazelton's music has tended to be eccentric and left-of-center; she is clearly an admirer of the avant-garde in rock as well as in jazz and classical. But she is also highly musical and melodic; although much of Brazelton's work is far from mainstream, she isn't self-indulgent to the point of being off-putting.

Brazelton, the daughter of a pediatrician, was born and raised in the Boston suburb of Cambridge, MA. As a teenager, she planned to become a sculptor; music, however, ended up becoming her main focus. Brazelton was 17 when she moved to the Philadelphia suburbs to attend Swarthmore College, and it was at Swarthmore that she decided to become music-oriented. In 1970, she became a singer and flutist for a short-lived psychedelic rock/acid rock band called Phaedra, which once opened for the Velvet Underground and should not be confused with an early 2000s band called Phaedrus. In 1972, Brazelton left Phaedra and founded the Philly-based art rock combo Musica Orbis, which wasn't a huge commercial success but enjoyed a small underground cult following and stayed together for seven years.
Selected Discography