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| Released | March 3, 2015 | |||
| Length | 43:44 | |||
| Producer | D. James Goodwin | |||
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The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body, is the eighth full-length album by American guitarist Kaki King, released March 3, 2015. The album is the soundtrack to Kaki's projection mapping show of the same name. [1]
In 2014, Kaki collaborated with the visual experience company Glowing Pictures to construct an innovative, immersive multi-media production in which the guitar is used as a projection screen to tell a story. The hour-long production, entitled The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, places the focus on the guitar itself, the Instrument serving as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other ever presented.
Glowing Pictures – known for their work with such artists as Animal Collective, David Byrne & Brian Eno, Beastie Boys, and TV On The Radio – collaborated with Kaki King and have re-conceived The Guitar as a screen for a remarkable range of new digital projections. Protections of genesis and death, unexpected textures and skins, are cast onto an Ovation Adamas 1581-KK Kaki King's Signature 6-String Acoustic guitar customized specifically for the production.
“The Guitar is a shape-shifter,” King says, “something that plays all types of music and really fills all kinds of roles. It’s not always the six-string guitar that we all know and love. I’ve been playing guitar for more than 30 years. It’s who I am and if anything, this project has made me even more familiar with it.” [2]
The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body debuted at Brooklyn’s acclaimed BRIC Theater in New York City in 2014, and will tour extensively in 2015.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "In the Beginning" | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Thoughts are Born" | 2:31 |
| 3. | "Notes and Colours" | 4:10 |
| 4. | "Ooblek" | 4:15 |
| 5. | "Anthropomorph" | 3:58 |
| 6. | "The Surface Changes" | 3:34 |
| 7. | "Trying to Speak I (featuring ETHEL)" | 3:49 |
| 8. | "Trying to Speak II (featuring ETHEL)" | 4:13 |
| 9. | "It Runs and Breathes" | 3:53 |
| 10. | "Battle is a Learning" | 4:03 |
| 11. | "We Did Not Make The Instrument, The Instrument Made Us" | 5:06 |
| Total length: | 43:44 | |
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