Re: Henry Kaiser Solo CD

["Jeff Duke" <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>]

Hey, I found this great vid with Kaiser, Arlid Anderson and a drummer 
named 
Bill Walker that looks alot like you! :) 
http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2008/01/henry-kaiserarild-andersenbill-walker.html

J

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <looppool@cruzio.com>
To: <loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:47 PM
Subject: Henry Kaiser Solo CD


>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
>
>