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Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King is a true iconoclast. Over the past 10 years the Brooklyn-based artist has released six extraordinarily diverse and distinctive albums (from which B-sides & Rarities has been largely culled), performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and ...
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Kaki King // JD Samson remix + New Video
Kaki King’s guitar struggles to fit in while traversing the streets of Brooklyn’s hipster capital, Bushwick, in the new video for “Roaming Guitar”, premiering on Flavorwire this week.
While the tongue-in-cheek clip sets out to mock elitist snobbery within the music industry, its narrative also resonates as an honest, at times poignant, metaphor for King’s own adolescence and finding her voice as a young guitar player. The video, filmed in stop-motion and supported by pieces of dialogue between King’s signature Ovation Adamasand snobbier “cool guy” guitars, is a journey of self-discovery.
“I never really cared about fitting in,” King said while talking to Flavorwire, “but I was always curious as to why people chose the music that they did. How did someone decide to dedicate themselves to rock and metal for instance? I never could choose a set path or any kind of music connected to a type of attitude or fashion or lifestyle.”
Kaki’s new project, The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body, also got a dance floor spin this week with a mammoth remix for “Ooblek” by iconic tastemaker JD Samson. Showcasing the wide range of styles that King’s vision can easily fit, Samson recasts King's wistful original as an infectious, uplifting disco jam.
Listen to “Ooblek (JD Samson remix)” HERE.
Listen to the original version of “Ooblek” HERE.
In performance, The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body is revolutionizing the way we experience live music. Kaki chats about her groundbreaking new project with Echoes Radio producer John Diliberto on his latest Echoes podcast HERE.
Provocative and moving, surprising and beautiful, The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body is Kaki King at her visionary best: deconstructing and redefining the role of solo instrumental artist though virtuoso technique, insatiable imagination, and boundless humanity. The album is a companion piece to Kaki's groundbreaking new multi-media performance, which uses projection mapping to present the guitar as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other.