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Legs to Make Us Longer | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kaki King
Label: Red Int / Red Ink
Category: Music
Buy New: $12.98
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 7553
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 92426
UPC: 766929242623
EAN: 0766929242623
ASIN: B0002YLDIM
Release Date: October 5, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Frame | | • | Playing With Pink Noise | | • | Ingots | | • | Doing The Wrong Thing | | • | Solipsist | | • | Neanderthal | | • | Can The Gwot Save Us? | | • | Lies | | • | All The Landslides Birds Have Seen Since The Beginning Of The World | | • | Magazine | | • | My Insect Life |
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Kaki King fulfills the promise of her debut, Everybody Loves You, with an album that stretches a guitar sound already torn between the compass points. A frenetic player, King is a musical descendent of Michael Hedges, though she usually cites the underrated Preston Reed. Both guitarists employed two-handed tapping techniques to whiplash effect. So does King, although her phrasing is more abstract and her mind still moves faster than her hands at times. Signing up guitar mutant David Torn as producer, King is clearly intent at defying convention. Joined by a sparse rhythm at times, her sound is taking on a slight country edge. You can hear it on "Doing the Wrong Thing," with King playing electric guitar (or a processed acoustic) using her 10-fingered agility to create a rolling melodic counterpoint to the drummer's train rhythm. She rips it up on "Magazine," literally pummeling the fretboard with her fingers, ripping out a mad dervish. She also sings, with a Chet Baker-fragile voice; pleasant, but nothing that makes want to hear that instead of her guitar. --John Diliberto
Album Description
Japanese pressing of the new-folk act's sophomore album, includes one bonus track 'Nailes'. Epic. 2004.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 More Focused on Structure and Sonority Than Performance, Searching Next May 15, 2008
In her 2nd album, Legs to Make Us Longer, Kaki King focuses on more compositional aspects, from the whole album's structure to each piece's sonority, than performance techniques. Alignment of chords in the first track and melancholic arpeggios in the last frame the album. Probably the album's most representative work, "Doing the Wrong Thing," displays distinctive sonorities, such as strings at the end and rhythmic counterpoint between Ben Perowsky's drums and King's guitar. With drums and bass, "Ingots" and "My Insect Life" (also featuring King's voice) are reminiscent of New Wave Rock in the 80s, whose influence would become more apparent in her later albums. Having confidence in musicianship after the debut album, King is seemingly searching the next.
 Excellent Sophmore Recording April 6, 2008
This is Kaki King's second recording and it takes her guitar playing to the next level. It is again amazing how much she can work out of a guitar with not only the 6 strings but the entire body of the guitar used as a percussive instrument. At this point you can stop comparing Kaki's work to the likes of Michael Hedges + Richard Thompson and start comparing newer composer/singer/songwriters to Ms. King. She has become the new benchmark for free-standing artistry in music. Definitely a CD for every serious music fan's collection - and don't be afraid to spread the word!
Creative and driving acoustic guitar February 15, 2008
A wonder with her instrument, the woman behind the guitar sound from the movie, August Rush, Kaki King is truly gifted.
WOW, Kaki does it again October 22, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you want to hear new things from an acoustic guitar, this album, and King's Everybody Loves You are the ticket. This, her second album, is a little less raw and gritty, a little more polished, but it works just as well. A few tracks are on electric, with accompanyment, a sound to which she has shifted even more on her latest album "...until we felt red." Kaki is extremely talented. I'm eagerly awaiting to hear more music from this stunning artist. Very unconventional, so maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but I love it!
Praise for the conquering King September 14, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this album! In the liner notes, she cites Preston Reed as an influence, but, for me, she is lightyears from Reed. Reed is impressive one song at a time, but after a short while all his songs start to sound alike. King has a better sense of melody, and makes better use of dynamics, much more like Leo Kottke. Her faster songs have drive, and all of her songs have an organic flow. Her slower songs, like "Can The Gwot Save Us", remind me a lot of The Durutti Column. At 45 minutes, the album is on the short side, but that's better than over-staying your welcome, which she certainly does not. When she leaves, you'll still be happy she stopped in, and will look forward to her next visit.
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