Kaki King at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (12 Feb 2015)
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Setlist
Tour Dates
02.18 // Austin, TX // Empire Control Room
02.19 // Dallas, TX // Granada Theater 02.26 // Toronto, Canada // Geary Lane 02.27 // Montreal, Canada // Club Soda 02.28 // Portland, ME // SPACE Gallery 03.01 // Providence, RI // Columbus Theater 03.03 // Boston, MA // Brighton Music Hall 03.21 // New York, NY // Merkin Concert Hall 04.03 // San Francisco, CA // Public Works 04.04 // Los Angeles, CA // Masonic Lodge 04.06 // Seattle, WA // Triple Door 04.07 // Vancouver, Canada // Biltmore Cabaret 04.08 // Portland, OR // Dour Fir 05.21 // New York, NY // Rough Trade Read More
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StoLyette
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Opening up the show was StoLyette, a local duo (Ben Clark and
Irene Ruderman Clark) who previously appeared at the Cedar at the Drone Not Drones 01/30-01/31 event. This was a special night for the duo, as it was Ben’s dad (Dan) birthday?
All their songs were sung in Russian, with the exception of one lone English song (I think it’s called “I Want To”). Most, if not all, of their 40-minute set were songs taken from Lubymaya, out now on Totally Gross National Product.
Since the inception of The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, Kaki King wanted to build a light and music show that she can take with her on the road. With the help of a visual arts company called Glowing Pictures, she was able to do this on the current The Neck is a Bridge to the Body tour.
The light show was beautiful…. and technically speaking, it was impressive to witness. The custom guitar served as a canvas to the moving projection, which meant that the guitar also had to be stationary to show off the projection.
The guitar was so crucial to the show that you realized that the real star of the show was the guitar. It was made abundantly clear when one of the song was basically the guitar talking to the audience: “Hey there. It’s me, the guitar. Are you enjoying the show?”
Every song had a special custom unique video to accompany the music. We later found out that there was another woman behind the scene called Becky who was manipulating and performing the video part of the program.
The highlight of the show was during “Trying to Speak”, Kip Jones (of Ethel) played violin in the background, dressed in a complete white outfit, similar to what Kaki King was wearing.
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Kaki King
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After completing The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, Kaki King finally spoke to the audience – telling us about the project. She also talked about the merchandise and how, at the moment, her The Neck is a Bridge to the Body was only available on a special USB guitar drive that contained all eight of her albums. I think this portion of the show was meant to also take questions from the fans, but instead it was just mostly King telling us about the project (you should also know that the fans at the show help funded her Kickstarter campaign to take this show on the road).
The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, the album, will be available on March 03, 2015, via Short Stuff Records. For a preview of the record, you can catch Kaki King now on tour now. If you’re only hearing the album, you’re only experiencing part of it… to get the full story, you have to see this specially designed light and music show.
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Kaki King at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (12 Feb 2015) |