Kaki King - Legs to Make Us Longer
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Artist: Kaki KingEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: Red Int / Red Ink
Soundtracks:
- Frame
- Playing With Pink Noise
- Ingots
- Doing The Wrong Thing
- Solipsist
- Neanderthal
- Can The Gwot Save Us?
- Lies
- All The Landslides Birds Have Seen Since The Beginning Of The World
- Magazine
- My Insect Life
Music reviews of Legs to Make Us Longer
Music Review: Music To Make Us Longer
Rating: 4 Stars
Beautiful guitars: a must for any layered guitarwork fan. The playing is superb, featuring playing that runs the gamut from delicate and expressive to the loudest dynamic range of the instrument.
The song, as opposed to the instrumentals, is a bit weak. It sees to me that Kaki was still developing her songcraft at this point, and I'm glad that she continued because, as her other albums have shown, it has only gotten stronger.
All in all, this is the album that I continually return to in her catalog. It has continued to captivate me since my first listen, and it has become an album I return to for inspiration when recording my own music.
A note on the engineering: the album is listenable, but I wish that the engineering had been better. I feel many of the the tracks would have benefited from better tracking, mixing, and mastering... I'm a bit picky when it comes to such talented players and would have liked to hear more of the detail Kaki is capable of in the final product.
Description of Legs to Make Us Longer
Japanese pressing of the new-folk act's sophomore album, includes one bonus track 'Nailes'. Epic. 2004.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
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