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Atlanta, Georgia, United States (1979 – present)
Kaki King (born 24th August 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitarist and singer from Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
When Kaki King went into the studio in upstate New York to record the tracks for her fourth album, Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn, had one condition: “He said, If someone can’t be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don’t want it on the record,” King recalls with a laugh.
And so the bar was set. Burn’s mandate was just the push King needed to make her most accessible CD yet. “Even though half the tracks are instrumentals, I feel like I’m writing pop songs”, she says. “We really concentrated on the melodies. Everything I write tends to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. I really wanted them to be memorable.”
That strict attention to song craft is a logical step for King, whose previous album, 2006’s …Until We Felt Red propelled this dazzling young guitar player and composer, known to instrumental music fans for her finger-picking, fret-slapping, and percussive thumping style, into previously uncharted indie-rock territory. Produced by post-rock kingpin John McEntire (Tortoise, Sea and Cake), Red was filled with lush, ambient soundscapes that “sound like the abstract, dreamy, and hypnotic end of alternative rock” as the New York Times noted in its review.
When Kaki King went into the studio in upstate New York to record the tracks for her fourth album, Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn, had one condition: “He said, If someone can’t be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don’t want it on the record,” King recalls with a laugh.
And so the bar was set. Burn’s mandate was just the push King needed to make her most accessible CD yet. “Even though half the tracks are instrumentals, I feel like I’m writing pop songs”, she says. “We really concentrated on the melodies. Everything I write tends to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. I really wanted them to be memorable.”
That strict attention to song craft is a logical step for King, whose previous album, 2006’s …Until We Felt Red propelled this dazzling young guitar player and composer, known to instrumental music fans for her finger-picking, fret-slapping, and percussive thumping style, into previously uncharted indie-rock territory. Produced by post-rock kingpin John McEntire (Tortoise, Sea and Cake), Red was filled with lush, ambient soundscapes that “sound like the abstract, dreamy, and hypnotic end of alternative rock” as the New York Times noted in its review.
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Legs to Make Us Longer
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Everybody Loves You
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Dreaming Of Revenge
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Shoutbox
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withoutaspark wrote:
New pic http://www.last.fm/music/Kaki+King/+images/41805799
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poisonpixel wrote:
I LOVE SHIT KING~
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themagneticzero wrote:
blog on kaki king here- http://outroversion.blogspot.com/2010/02/kaki-king.html
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Point_JaZZz wrote:
omg Thats really important?
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SiberianKissed wrote:
"kaki means shit in estonian" - as well in Ruusian and Hebrew.
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sataraid1 wrote:
HELLS YEAH!
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Acharis wrote:
Ericka, for that my day = MADE :D
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EmpressEricka wrote:
Official: New Album due 4.13. 2010 - http://musicnerdery.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/official-kaki-king-junior-new-album-due-4-13-2010/
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withoutaspark wrote:
Please have a listen. Very young, very raw, lots of potential. http://www.last.fm/music/Amorr
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Duerrli wrote:
See u march 22th @ beatpol/dresden *-* <3
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lagginswag wrote:
<3 LOVE
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Hysch wrote:
Excitement!
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Acharis wrote:
From twitter: "Junior is done. Recorded the final song yesterday at an undisclosed location. Watch out for world wide release dates!"
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xlyn wrote:
can't wait to see you in chicago!
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withoutaspark wrote:
UK tour is going to be announced soonish and I can't bloody wait :)
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BrockAtkinson wrote:
Then she commented on our ties, which was really cool. And she's a lot shorter than I imagined.
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BrockAtkinson wrote:
After her show in Busselton me and my friends went to talk to her. My mate asked her for some weed, and she said no, then asked her if she had a boyfriend, and she replied that she had a girlfriend. He stood in stunned silence.
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dxdark wrote:
Kaki announced at her Melbourne gig earlier in the month that the new album is going to be called Junior - can't wait for it!
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emonsoel wrote:
so good it's not funny. heaven <3
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ritakowski wrote:
is she lesbian?
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Academy 3, Manchester, United Kingdom
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News
new record and shows!
30 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/kakiking
Hi friends! I know I've been out of touch for a while. I've
been working diligently, I promise. Without giving it much of a to-do,
I'm happy to announce that I'm almost done recording my fifth al. …
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