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
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Free Music Review: More Focused on Structure and Sonority Than Performance, Searching Next
Hit: 4 Stars
In her 2nd album, Legs to Make Us Longer, Kaki King focuses on more compositional aspects, from the whole album's structure to each piece's sonority, than performance techniques. Alignment of chords in the first track and melancholic arpeggios in the last frame the album. Probably the album's most representative work, "Doing the Wrong Thing," displays distinctive sonorities, such as strings at the end and rhythmic counterpoint between Ben Perowsky's drums and King's guitar. With drums and bass, "Ingots" and "My Insect Life" (also featuring King's voice) are reminiscent of New Wave Rock in the 80s, whose influence would become more apparent in her later albums. Having confidence in musicianship after the debut album, King is seemingly searching the next.
Legs to Make Us Longer Poster
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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