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Location: atlanta | Kaki King is my daughter (and an Ovation Artist), and I want to share some early web comments on her new cd:
Source:
http://www.radioio.com/radioioeclectic.php
"Elsewhere in royalty, I name Kaki King the queen of acoustic guitar. If her first release didn't bowl you over, brace yourself for "Legs to make us Longer", available in stores October 5, but playing right now at RadioioEclectic. You will be amazed."
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Source: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/
Kaki King. Tin Angel, Oct. 16.
Combining dexterity and an unorthodox attack, this guitarist has carved out a niche somewhere between thrashy instrumental punk and meditative new-age melody. Her major-label debut, Legs to Make Us Longer, coming Oct. 5, shows she's developed significantly since her homemade debut, Everybody Loves You, in 2003, and a lot of that progress can be credited to her steady performance schedule. This will probably be the last time to catch her in such an intimate venue.
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Legs to Make Us Longer
Kaki King
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Kaki King fulfills the promise of her debut, Everybody Loves You, with an album that stretches a guitar sound already torn between the compass points. A frenetic player, King is a musical descendent of Michael Hedges, though she usually cites the underrated Preston Reed. Both guitarists employed two-handed tapping techniques to whiplash effect. So does King, although her phrasing is more abstract and her mind still moves faster than her hands at times. Signing up guitar mutant David Torn as producer, King is clearly intent at defying convention. Joined by a sparse rhythm at times, her sound is taking on a slight country edge. You can hear it on "Doing the Wrong Thing," with King playing electric guitar (or a processed acoustic) using her 10-fingered agility to create a rolling melodic counterpoint to the drummer's train rhythm. She rips it up on "Magazine," literally pummeling the fretboard with her fingers, ripping out a mad dervish. She also sings, with a Chet Baker-fragile voice; pleasant, but nothing that makes want to hear that instead of her guitar. --John Diliberto
To view her Amazon site for the new cd, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/4uluv
Best regards to all--
Dave King
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Location: Toronto, Canada | Can't wait to get my copy...
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Location: Seattle | Pop,
Thanks for sharing. Very much looking forward to this round of her still very new career. Buckle your seatbelt.
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Location: NJ | Dave;
WNYC-FM (93.9) here in NY will have Kaki in the studio sometime tomorrow afternoon. If I can, I'll try to get it on tape for you . . . | |
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Location: atlanta | Cliff that would be great. She was also on live tv in Chicago over the weekend.
She appears tomorrow at the Knitting Factory in NYC:
http://tinyurl.com/4tgk7
Kaki was "discovered" there in June of 2002, so it will always be a special venue for her.
She's just added two shows in Georgia to her schedule--October 21 and 22 at the Georgia Theater in Athens (about 75 miles from Atlanta).
Hope to see some OFC folks there.
Best--
Dave King
p.s. Just added a really nice photo of her to my member's gallery (taken in Seattle earlier this month). | |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I wish I had known earlier about the knitting factory show. A couple friends of mine and I have being really wanting to catch her live, and haven't been able to coordinate getting to the last few area shows. We're all totally tied up tonight.
I wish her the best. Looking forward to the cd release next week!
Johnny | |
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