I wish she wouldn't bugger about with her guitar so much, though I'm sure it shows virtuousity. That sort of thing sounds great when a real master (mistress?) like Gabriela does it, but it doesn't come off here IMO. It's all a bit chi-chi and Islington café to my ears.
I find pink noise to be quite restful, and very handy at work if I need to block out office and traffic noise and concentrate on something that needs a bit of thought. Much nicer than white noise.
I agree with the "Michael Hedges did this years ago...and better" comments.
So does that mean we didn't need The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin because Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did it first? All music is a variation on what came before. And though I would argue Michael Hedges did it better than just about anyone, Kaki has her place.
I agree with the "Michael Hedges did this years ago...and better" comments.
Though I love Michael Hedges, I disagree w/ the comment - Hedges did it different, not better. Kaki comes from the Preston Reed school of tapping - really rhythmically percussive and harmonically diverse. Playing w/ Pink Noise is just that, playing around w/ a riff, something stumbled onto and shaped into something more significant.
Johnny_Wave wrote:
Enough already. Buy a drum
Actually, she plays this way because she is a drummer.
"Michael Hedges did this years ago and with more musicality. "
"When you perform music, you don't "play notes;" you make sounds. "Notes" are written on the page to help you remember how long to make a sound with a specific pitch, and sometimes other musical parameter, such as articulations, are added. But in the end the musician will have to decide what kind of sound is represented by the note on the page. Also, lots of music doesn't have melody - some puts rhythm in the foreground, for example, "Playing With Pink Noise." "
"Legs" is my favorite album of hers. Most of this disc is just as rockin', with some really impressive fingerstyle. Yes, the Hedges influences are definitely there :)
I recommend this one over "Until We Felt Red", which is more of an ambient album in which she experiments with some vocal tracks (to a mixed outcome).
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