Glow (Kaki King album)

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Glow
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Studio album by Kaki King
Released October 9, 2012 (2012-10-09)
Genre Rock, Jazz Fusion, Acoustic Music
Label Velour
Producer D. James Goodwin
Kaki King chronology
Junior
(2010)		Glow
(2012)		 The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body
(2015)

Glow, the sixth full-length album by American guitarist Kaki King, was released October 9, 2012. [1] On Glow King returns to her instrumental roots and is accompanied by the string quartet ETHEL. [2] “This is a guitar record,” King says to describe this album. [3] The first single, "Great Round Burn", is available to download at RollingStone.com. [4]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Guitarist person who plays the guitar

A guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica.

Kaki King American guitarist

Kaki King is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Great Round Burn"3:12
2."Streetlight in the Egg"3:43
3."Bowen Island"2:50
4."Cargo Cult"3:56
5."Kelvinator, Kelvinator"2:55
6."Fences"3:23
7."No True Masterpiece Will Ever Be Complete"3:34
8."Holding the Severed Self"3:20
9."Skimming the Fractured Surface to a Place of Endless Light"3:30
10."King Pizel"2:49
11."The Fire Eater"5:47
12."Marche Slav"3:02
Total length:41:57

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Thom Jurek wrote "The sound on these pieces is crystalline, they are structured as brief, tightly constructed songs, with catchy, often ethereal melodies of varying tempo... The pristine sound is easy on the ear and easily appreciated. That said, it can sometimes detract from more organic surprises inherently written into these songs. But it's a small complaint given how much there is to enjoy here." [5]

The album currently has a Metacritic rating of 68% based on six reviews from professional critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.

Personnel

String quartet musical ensemble of four string players

A string quartet is a musical ensemble consisting of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the mid 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.

Ralph Farris is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor, best known as a founding member and artistic director of the ensemble ETHEL. Farris is an electric string player with a lengthy career that spans the gamut of musical genres from rock and jazz to Broadway. His instruments are outfitted with a piezoelectric pickup which allows him to play amplified. Amplification was initially adopted early in Farris's career in order to facilitate the playing of various "contemporary classical" pieces that involve electronic components. It continues to be integral to his signature sound.

Bagpipes musical instrument

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known in the Anglophone world; however, bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf. The term bagpipe is equally correct in the singular or plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as "the pipes", "a set of pipes" or "a stand of pipes".

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References

  1. ↑ "Interview: Guitarist Kaki King Discusses Her New Album, Glow", Guitar World, by Laura B. Whitmore, 10/09/2012
  2. ↑ "Kaki King: Glow", Paste Magazine by Taylor Evans, October 9, 2012
  3. ↑ "Kaki King announces new album: Glow", Consequence of Sound, by Chris Coplan, August 27th, 2012
  4. ↑ "'Great Round Burn' by Kaki King - Free MP3". Rolling Stone . Retrieved September 4, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. "Glow > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved September 4, 2017.
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