After a couple weeks of enjoyable playlists that lacked my enthusiasm, I discovered a new musician this week who rewoke my excitement for instrumental music. Kaki King is a female mostly solo guitarist who has been playing guitar, then drums, then guitar again since she was 4 years old. Her music is moving, fluid, dreamy, and speaks to you in her lovely unspoken language. Finding her song Gay Songs of Lesbian Mothers spurred me to listen to many of her albums, explore the music of the artists who inspired her (Preston Reed, Michael Hedges) and dive into a refreshing sub-genre of my ‘instrumental’ label.
I only have a few weeks left playing my music through the airwaves of KLSU until I graduate but I hope to incorporate the guitar licks that swept me up this week.
I’ve included a few videos of both Kaki King and the musician Jack Dawson, who’s music isn’t on spotify since I got a burned demo CD from him when I heard him busking close to the Sydney Opera House in Australia when I was hitchhiking there a few years back. He’s another talented guitar musician. Enjoy!
| 1 | The 5th Exotic – Quantic | |
| 2 | Tempestade – Wun Two | |
| 3 | Common Knowledge – Quantic | |
| 4 | Meaning – Quantic | |
| 5 | Special Re: Quest – Daedelus | |
| 6 | Beautiful Thing – mikedecline | |
| 7 | Ruins – Portico Quartet | |
| 8 | Sky Could Undress – Balmorhea | |
| 9 | Outdoors – Wun Two | |
| 10 |
Gay Sons Of Lesbian Mothers – Kaki King |
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| 11 | Goby – Kaki King | |
| 12 | These Are The Armies Of The Tyrannized – Kaki King | |
| 13 | Like Water – emune | |
| 14 | Night After Sidewalk – Kaki King | |
| 15 | Montreal – Kaki King | |
| 16 | Open Mouth – Kaki King | |
| 18 | Sunrise at Wildflower Hill Retirement Center – Kaki King | |
| 20 | Chimney – Wun Two | |
| 21 | Summer Salt – Mark Lettieri | |
| 22 | Night Ride – Preston Reed | |
| 23 | Delayed Train – Preston Reed | |
| 24 | Ay – Wun Two | |
| 25 | The Surface Changes – Kaki King | |
| 26 | Dirge – Michael Hedges | |
| 27 | Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person? – Kaki King | |
| 28 | Day – Wun Two | |
| 29 | Mysterium – Hammock | |
| 30 | Bless Those Tired Eyes – Clem Leek | |
| 31 | Appl – Rob Araujo |
Songs 17 and 19 were “Driving North” and “Sydney Pt.1” by Jack Dawson, shown below:
