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Re: Henry Kaiser Solo CD



> 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..

btw, that is availiable here:
http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2009/08/henry-kaiser-solo-guitar.html

Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dohol1@windstream.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Cc: "Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:35 PM
Subject: 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>