Kaki King

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• Kaki King is a feisty, five-foot, funny, outspoken Atlanta transplant who now lives in New York, a city whose energy is almost equal to her own. She also happens to be the most exciting solo guitarist/composer to have come along in decades. On her latest album, Legs to Make Us Longer (Epic), she blazes through a set of original works with an intensity that reflects her world -- the subway platform gigs,the late shifts at the Mercury Lounge, the surreptitious intermission entrances into Lincoln Center to catch some Stravinsky -- more than the new age stupor that most solo guitar music seems to induce.
  
  Her music is as contradictory as the city itself. On the first track, "Frame," her guitar tolls like bells beneath an iron sky. Right after that, "Playing With Pink Noise" dashes in and out of traffic, with pistons pumping. On "Ingots" a steady, four-beat thump keeps time, a pulse beating as she runs through vistas of sound.