Episode 40: Maya de Vitry
Maya de Vitry joins us from her home in Nashville to discuss her recent album, Violet Light. Maya co-produced this record with partner Ethan Jodziewicz in their home studio during quarantine, collaborating with a different cast of musical guests (including her three siblings) for each song. Maya discusses her musical youth, her time as a touring musician as part of The Stray Birds, and how she has created a new musical life around her solo work. We also get to hear the story of her chickens-all the important stuff.
Maya de Vitry’s devotion to songwriting is her way of staying present, curious, and imaginative. Pennsylvania-raised and Tennessee-based, Maya first traveled and performed as a fiddling street musician, and then in bars, theaters, and on festival stages as a founding member of The Stray Birds. In 2019, she released her critically-acclaimed solo debut Adaptations (produced by Dan Knobler) and has quietly emerged as a prolific solo artist and musical collaborator. Violet Light (produced by Ethan Jodziewicz & Maya de Vitry) is her 3rd solo release, and was recorded in a basement home studio in collaboration with numerous musical guests. Violet Light is an open-hearted invitation to explore the tensions between the visible and the imagined, between love and control, and our unrelenting human desire to belong—to a home, to an environment, and to each other. In addition to writing, recording, and touring with her band, Maya collaborates with other artists as a writer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.
