{"id":22080,"date":"2022-02-09T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:54:21","slug":"camosun-alumna-dives-into-surf-rock-with-pitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/02\/09\/camosun-alumna-dives-into-surf-rock-with-pitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun alumna dives into surf rock with Pitted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surf rock in the middle of Canadian winter? It\u2019s all part of Pitted\u2019s plan. The Prince George-based band, featuring Camosun College alumna Naomi Kavka on guitar, are set to drop their debut album So Pitted<\/i> on February 25 through digital service providers (with a vinyl version to follow later this year), and they\u2019re ready to spread their surf sounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like doing deep dives into where different types of music come from, and why it\u2019s being made, and who\u2019s making it,\u201d says Kavka. \u201cAnd surf music is such an interesting avenue for that because it\u2019s kind of a genre that everybody knows. It branches out into all these different genres and it\u2019s a fun field to be creative in, because there is so much music to draw from and be influenced by. All of these songs are references to this goofy viral video of a surfer talking like a total jerk that was on Fox News. I don\u2019t know when that was, like 2010 or something. None of us knows much about surfing, so all of our introductory knowledge of surfing came from this one video of this guy who\u2019s saying expressions like \u2018so pitted\u2019 and \u2018smacks the lip\u2019 and all these expressions that we had no idea what they meant until we did a bit of research about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun alumna Naomi Kavka (bottom right) plays in surf rockers Pitted (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kavka says the transition from going to school to being an artist has been tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing in an arts program gave a lot of focus towards what I wanted to do with all my time, which is being a musician,\u201d says Kavka, who graduated from the music diploma program at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, through Camosun, in 2011. \u201cI wanted to improve my skills, and I thought there was a lot more I could learn about music, so the program really helped me and I thought it would give me more focus and it actually just opened all these different avenues where I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know what to do with my life\u2019 a little bit. Playing in a lot of bands and playing in orchestras I realized that I don\u2019t have a single focus as a musician. I guess the program gave me the ability to feel like I can do anything with the abilities that I was given, which is pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of So Pitted<\/i>\u2019s more interesting moments is a surf-rock take on the classic Tetris<\/i> theme song.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up playing a lot of video games, and my dad is also Eastern European,\u201d says Kavka. \u201cI was exposed to a lot of Eastern European folk music and also just love playing Tetris<\/i>. So I felt that this was kind of a fun, recognizable melody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band is planning on performing at the ski hall in Smithers when the album is released, but Kavka says there are lots of fun opportunities out there for a surf-rock band.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy ultimate dream with this band would be to do a tour with a food truck,\u201d she says. \u201cLike, pull up to a beach, play surf tunes, and have people get, like, cubanos and tacos or whatever kind of food. I think that would really be a fun tour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surf rock in the middle of Canadian winter? It\u2019s all part of Pitted\u2019s plan. The Prince George-based band, featuring Camosun College alumna Naomi Kavka on guitar, are set to drop their debut album So Pitted on February 25 through digital service providers (with a vinyl version to follow later this year), and they\u2019re ready to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-9-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22082,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions\/22082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}