Henry Kaiser Solo CD

[looppool@cruzio.com]

I woke up feeling kind of blue this morning;  quarantined for a few days
with a nasty
roto virus that my wife and I caught (not swine flu, thank god),  sealed
inside the house
because the Lockheed Fire smoke is so bad in Santa Cruz now..... with big
industrial HEPA filter
fans on high (I'm sooooo sick of the sound of those fans on high).

I got up, made a too strong cup of coffee and put Henry Kaiser's new solo
guitar
improvisation CD on.

I'm listening to the title track right now and it is just beautiful and
awe inspiring.
It makes me want to throw away all of my instruments and only play
electric guitar
for the rest of my life.

Called 'where endless meets disappearing',  this long droning track is
just beautiful:
abstract, melodic,  fractured,  soothing.   It has it all and if any of
you were fortunate
to have caught Henry's exquisite solo set at the loop festival last year, 
it is along
the lines of things he played to his beautiful and serene underwater
photography
from under the Antarctic ice caps as a professional diver.

I can imagine being underwater listening to this music.

In the liner notes, he calls this opus,  ".....a concept album about the
intersection of different
personal practise and their attached intimacies."

You get this concept viscerally, just listening to the playing.

It just made me completely forget about my small woes and makes me want to
start
plugging gear in and using it in new, undiscovered ways.

That's a pretty damn good recommendation for any music, I suppose.

A beautiful and thought provoking record.  I highly recommend it if you
are in search of
either beauty or musical inspiration.

rick walker