Calming a Panic
A musical adventure to boost early childhood wellness through the transformative power of creativity. Recorded June/July, 2023 Release Date September 15, 2023 You and Us presents Calming a Panic!
Songwriters and recording artists: Nicole Porter, and Wyndham Garnett Additional players for this full album include: Kenny Siegel, Lee Falco, and Michael Farkas.
Rhythm (feat Mario Maggio), Shake Shake, Earth Candy (feat. Mario Maggio), Abacabama (feat. Chris Littlefield), Let your soul shine (feat. Mike Irwin, Phoebe Seigel), Find my way (feat. Phoebe Seigel), Do the Vowel Howl , Tiger in a Hammock (Calming a Panic!), Stay wild moon child (feat. Chris Littlefield), Additional choir vocals: Mulasia Tyler-Perry (Abacabama), Ayla Brehse (Vowel Howel) Child choir vocals/spoken words include: Roxy, age 7, Abriella, age 10, Carter, age 3, Nevaeh, age 1, Zuri, infant, Brenna, age 4, Saniya, age 9, Lily, age 9, Zachary, age 6
Executive Producer: Nicole Porter Willcox, Producers: Wyndham Garnett & Kenny Siegel, Engineer/Mixer: Matthew Cullen, Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi, Album Visual Artist: Javere Pinnock Record Label: Emerald Sketch
Fanfare Gratitude: Michael Davis, Mike Willcox, Dr. MK Newell, and Sydney Morton to name only a few of you fabulous friends, family, and fans! Thank you for listening!
You and Us exists to promote child mental health advocacy, mass community trauma response, and creative arts therapy as a positive mechanism for change. “Calming a Panic” is dedicated to child survivors, and inspired by the unconditional love devoted to the songwriters from their own mothers, and zest for life, Nicole Porter’s mom, Marina Willcox, and Wyndham Garnett’s, Nuala Boylan. May all children and families listen to You and Us music and bring great joy into their moments together.
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You and Us is the musical collaboration between Emerald Sketch founder, Nicole Porter, and Wyndham Garnett, that applies art therapy trauma response sequences to rock and pop music. Their debut album, For Children of All Ages, is a gentle touch into a vast stream of consciousness and possibility on how art therapy heals humans.
The full album is available to stream on all major music platforms.
The sequence of songs on For Children of All Ages takes the listener through the various stages of Art Therapy Trauma Response for Children that Porter developed following the Sandy Hook School tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Coupled with this, her experience as a parent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and waves of disruption in American culture since 2020 inspired Porter to create everyday tools that could exist outside of the clinician’s office and help both parents and children.
You and Us’s tunes are designed to uplift the internal mind-body processes of children and families experiencing difficult or painful times, foster wellness and a greater sense of security, and introduce therapeutic techniques that can be used for and by all children.