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Re: Henry Kaiser Solo CD



Rick, I forgot to post the source of this where it lists you correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrThQZ_eS-o

j

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Duke" <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: Henry Kaiser Solo CD


> 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
>>
>>
>
>