Kelli Rudick

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In an ex-industrial Brooklyn loft strewn with guitars and all manner of odd instruments, Kelli Rudick creates beautifully crafted and intensely driven compositions. Born in the states but raised in Israel, she spent endless hours playing in the echoing sound of the bomb shelter just outside the family’s house on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. After fulfilling her mandatory military service, Kelli moved back to the US and worked to create alternate playing styles through inventive fingerwork and variant tunings, creating a unique and inimitable musical style. In Brooklyn Kelli continued to develop her unusually powerful and expressive techniques. Using every timbre the instrument has to offer by slapping, tapping, bending, restringing and de-tuning, she causes the instrument to morph and transcend possibility in her hands.

In 2007 Kelli released ‘No One Knows You’re Foreign’, a distinctive work introducing her unique way of accentuating emotionally complex compositions by drawing percussive rhythms from the fretboard and body of the guitar while coaxing chordal melodies and harmonics from the strings. The cumulative effect of this soundscape reveals transcendently beautiful dimensions in an anomolous approach to guitarwork. Live shows in support of this record include intricately crafted arrangements for solo guitar as well as looping beats, bass lines and string driven sound progressions, creating captivating atmospheres though multi-layered melodic structures.

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guitar, acoustic, folk, experimental instrumental guitar, female artist
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1	Please Wake Up	6
2	The Third Ear	5
2	Birthmark	5
4	No Expectations	4
4	Are You Still Waiting For The Messiah	4
4	Cactus	4
4	No One Knows You're Foreign	4
4	Strange Mirror	4
9	Gypsy	3
9	Hypochondria	3
11	Blood & Honey	2
11	Too Many People	2
13	Gimel	1
13	Fall	1
13	Slide (ft. Kaki King)	1

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Amanda_ataxia wrote:
August 2009

hey check out her new song "Blood & Honey" on myspace.com/kellirudick

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Twili91 wrote:
August 2009

It's upsetting that this is pretty much impossible to find as I haven't found anything.

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Sphygmus wrote:
March 2009

Sweet Nail Violin Tones! Keep it up... Do some gigs in London!

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ou_pire wrote:
October 2008

sounds really good!

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robumbu wrote:
October 2008

scomodo

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drhelmutsoul1 wrote:
September 2008

cool

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Bayou16 wrote:
September 2008

itunes store :) kaki and kelli broke up FYI

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snowsuitmel wrote:
August 2008

itunes? :) you can also buy the album from cdbaby.com

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freeboprich wrote:
August 2008

Gimel is gorgeous... looking forward to getting the CD soon! Rich*****

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doiscareyou wrote:
August 2008

lol @ the guy below. screw you, kaki's good.

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tandouri wrote:
July 2008

kaki's girlfriend?

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Bayou16 wrote:
February 2008

darling ♥

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Jeremyyyy wrote:
October 2007

kaki's girlfriend. how amazing. they should team up and make a super guitar duo, since theyre practically virtuosos.

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Reflekshun wrote:
September 2007

Kelli Rudick makes very special music. Touches deep into my soul every time! Thankyou so much for baring your soul so honestly for us all! :D

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edmann wrote:
August 2007

you were awesome in san francisco! come back again soon.

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i_hate_shit wrote:
February 2007

you kick ass on the mmmmbira...

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