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Re: Henry Kaiser Solo CD
This is the CD Damon Smith put out on Balancepoint? I haven't heard it
yet, but it's on my wish list..
I don't think that the speaking/playing thing is all that new to Kaiser.
He's done it before ( "Meet the Flintstones" off of Lemon Fish Tweezer
comes to mind ), I believe he got the habit from Derek Bailey who did
fairly often..
It does open improvisational doors. ( Davey Williams once told me he would
practice guitar while reading a book..)
Mr Kaiser doesn't get enough credit when it comes to the history of
looping. His piece "It's a Wonderful Life" is a stellar example of the
genre..
I guess that was my first post...
Cheers!
Doug H
---- Krispen Hartung <info@krispenhartung.com> wrote:
> Someone was telling me, maybe you Rick? that Kaiser has been
>experimenting
> wiht a new technique of playing, where what he played was not directly
> intentional or completely a product of direct consciousness. . I guess
>he
> was experimeting by talking or doing other things while he was playing
>the
> guitar, so that it lessened the intentionality of his playing, thereby
> making it more random and new. Did you hear this too? It is as if he
>were
> distancing himself from the guitar and letting this body play. Maybe
>it
> was someone at BCIMF who told me.
>
> Kris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> >I woke up feeling kind of blue this morning; quarantined for a few days
> > with a nasty
> > roto virus that my wife and I caught (not swine flu, thank god),
>sealed
> > inside the house
> > because the Lockheed Fire smoke is so bad in Santa Cruz now..... with
>big
> > industrial HEPA filter
> > fans on high (I'm sooooo sick of the sound of those fans on high).
> >
> > I got up, made a too strong cup of coffee and put Henry Kaiser's new
>solo
> > guitar
> > improvisation CD on.
> >
> > I'm listening to the title track right now and it is just beautiful and
> > awe inspiring.
> > It makes me want to throw away all of my instruments and only play
> > electric guitar
> > for the rest of my life.
> >
> > Called 'where endless meets disappearing', this long droning track is
> > just beautiful:
> > abstract, melodic, fractured, soothing. It has it all and if any of
> > you were fortunate
> > to have caught Henry's exquisite solo set at the loop festival last
>year,
> > it is along
> > the lines of things he played to his beautiful and serene underwater
> > photography
> > from under the Antarctic ice caps as a professional diver.
> >
> > I can imagine being underwater listening to this music.
> >
> > In the liner notes, he calls this opus, ".....a concept album about
>the
> > intersection of different
> > personal practise and their attached intimacies."
> >
> > You get this concept viscerally, just listening to the playing.
> >
> > It just made me completely forget about my small woes and makes me
>want to
> > start
> > plugging gear in and using it in new, undiscovered ways.
> >
> > That's a pretty damn good recommendation for any music, I suppose.
> >
> > A beautiful and thought provoking record. I highly recommend it if you
> > are in search of
> > either beauty or musical inspiration.
> >
> > rick walker
> >
> >
>