Nazca Lines, by Henry Kaiser

Nazca Lines

by Henry Kaiser

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1.	Introduction 05:15	buy track
2.	Vulture 01:54	buy track
3.	Rectangles 03:07	buy track
4.	Shark 02:57	buy track
5.	Flower 07:26	buy track
6.	Spider 04:00	buy track
7.	Hummingbird 02:05	buy track
8.	Iguana 02:46	buy track
9.	Alcatraz 01:45	buy track
10.	Parrot 01:52	buy track
11.	Tower 01:57	buy track
12.	Monkey 00:55	buy track
13.	Dog 03:29	buy track
14.	Spiral 03:47	buy track
15.	Triangles 01:30	buy track
16.	Condor 01:33	buy track
17.	Hands 05:57	buy track
18.	Owlman 04:00	buy track
19.	Astronaut 04:38	buy track
20.	Whale 02:54	buy track
21.	Tree 03:24	buy track
22.	Reptile 04:28	buy track

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This album consists of 22 freely improvised solos on 18 different acoustic guitars. In the past 5 years, Henry Kaiser released seven solo discs that consist of long (70-80 minute) electric guitar solos. In this latest release, he explores the short solo guitar format, with solos wherein the mind of the listener can hold the beginning, middle, and end of the musical stories in one mentation. In the tradition of Derek Bailey's 1975 classic album IMPROVISATION on the Italian CRAMPS label, these solos are short virtuoso expressions of extended guitar language and technique. More significantly, they are expositions of many new approaches to musical narrative. Akin to short story format, as opposed to novels, the improvisations are concise, otherworldly, and surprisingly electric-sounding for being played on acoustic guitars. Imagine Henry Kaiser, Derek Bailey, Robert Peter Williams, Morton Feldman, Robbie Basho, Joseph Spence, Toru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, D'Gary, Teta, and Masayuki Takayanagi sitting around a campfire for a crazy acoustic guitar jamboree, that is then transfigured through a sonic-kaleidoscope, inter-dimensional, space warp, and you can begin to guess what this recording sounds like.

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released May 13, 2016

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Henry Kaiser San Francisco, California

Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "second generation" of American free improvisers. ... more

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