Photos: Kaki King at SFJAZZ
Kaki King (photo: Ria Burman) Jazz guitarist Kaki King gave a rousing performance at SFJAZZ, bringing her genre-spanning sounds to the city for an intimate performance with a variety of guitars and her talents on display. Check out the gallery from the performance below!
Kaki King to bring multimedia synesthesia to Swedish American Music Hall this Sunday
First, because words can only do so much, watch this: Color me impressed. (Sorry). Experimental guitar virtuoso Kaki King casts light projections onto her Ovation Adamas 1581-KK electric guitar to recreate synesthesia as a live experience. Her 2015 album release, The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, was meant to be seen specifically in this format. Glowing Pictures, best known for their multimedia work with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Animal Collective, and the Beastie Boys, co-produced this visual experience. The guitar itself is vastly interesting, partly because King designed it herself in collaboration with the Adamas R&D team. For musician types, Ovation Guitars' [...]
Mountain Goats and Kaki King Play Thursday, Friday
The Mountain Goats return to the Bay Area once again for two shows in San Francisco - Thursday at The Independent and Friday at The Fillmore, both with Kaki King (NY). The amazingly prolific and talented John Darnielle was kind enough to do an interview with our own Adrian Bischoff this year during Noise Pop. It's no surprise that since then, he has released a new EP, entitled Satanic Messiah, that can be downloaded online (he's counting on donations!). Featured on Pitchfork in early Sept., the two performers have recorded a song together that appears on their joint Black Pear [...]