Slap Happy Kaki

If you are like me, you have an illness of the heart that can only be filled by music, you could say I have a greed for it. It was no different when I first heard the work of this wonderfully gifted woman. Kaki King combines folk finger picking, slap guitar, and an intense plethora of chord vocabulary to produce a musical tapestry that can consist of soft warm drones and then shift suddenly to an angry tribal flurry of percussive hammer ons.

Ms. King is not however by any means a lightweight newcomer to the music world but she is just now coming into her own. She helped score the Sean Penn film Into the Wild (2007) with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Wrote, played and improvised the major guitar tracks from this past November's August Rush (2007) directed by Kirsten Sheridan. She has also been featured by the Grohlmeister himself. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters featured Kaki on his latest album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace (2007) on the track entitled The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners. Her solo work however, is not to be overshadowed as it is some of the most amazing music I have ever heard. Listen and enjoy.

Artist: Kaki King
Song: Playing With Pink Noise
Album: Legs to Make Us Longer

www.kakiking.com

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