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Kaki King (born 24th August 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitarist and singer from Atlanta, Georgia.
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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...Until We Felt Red
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Dreaming of Revenge
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Legs to Make Us Longer
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Everybody Loves You
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Shoutbox
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greenpositive wrote:
Can anyone who has heard Kaki King really be a bad person? [3]
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markpcronin wrote:
Can anyone who has heard Kaki King really be a bad person? [2]
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QualitySuit wrote:
Check this out --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE
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Catchy_Kathy wrote:
http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Kaki+King/+images/9193257 vote this one up :D:D
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markpcronin wrote:
i'm going to see her live... i'm in LOVE!!
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kaipaan wrote:
until we felt red will always be my favorite album
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EmpressEricka wrote:
http://www.thekakikingforum.com
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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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sebthemonster wrote:
magnifique, wonderful... i love how she plays guitar
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ohshanna wrote:
moar like caca king
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WyattRegan wrote:
Holy shit...just listened for the first time...love happened
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Korbhiine wrote:
friggin dykes...
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OmgItsBeto wrote:
When i readed the "Guitar god" words i imagined something Joe Satriani - Steve Vai style, but this is sooo good, i love her voice <3333
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donald17 wrote:
Can anyone who has heard Kaki King really be a bad person?
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Aywol wrote:
Life Being what it is.......did it for me, Im sold.....new album, I want one
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Herandi wrote:
realmente grandiosooo!!
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MattMelvin wrote:
The Pink Noise guitar was supposedly being auctioned off after that insane performance a ways back. What ever happened to that? Was it auctioned off already or what?
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leilabby wrote:
amazing.
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somnambule- wrote:
wonderful! I'm waiting for the new album...
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EmpressEricka wrote:
good times.
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Events
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Kaki King
East Brunswick Club Hotel, Brunswick East, Melbourne, Australia
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The Annandale Hotel, Sydney, Australia
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Notes on Enmore, Sydney, Australia
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News
Kaki Fans :: Austin, TX // Boulder, CO // Minneapolis, MN
3 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/kakiking
Kaki King's Street Teamers in these three cities have some very exciting news coming their way. We appreciate all of your support and would like to express our gratitude with a very special, exclusive. …
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