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Biography
Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz and experimental music. He is one of the most extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 175 different albums. Evidence of his exceptional musical breadth and versatility can be found in a partial list of the extraordinary artists with whom he has recorded and performed: Herbie Hancock, Richard Thompson, David Lindley, Bob Weir, Bill Laswell, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Drumbo, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Kimock, Negativland, Terry Riley, Jim O'Rourke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Frisell, Victoria Williams, Rossy, Mahaleo, Tarika Sammy, Jerry Garcia, Marilyn Crispell and Cecil Taylor.
While Kaiser has helped unfetter the guitar from the conventions of genre-bound techniques, his instrumental virtuosity and technological breakthroughs are always deployed in the service of deep and immediate personal expression. Likewise, he has developed a highly individual, inimitable style from an uncommonly varied range of influences. Some of his musical sources include traditional blues, free jazz, free improvisation, rock, American steel-string concert guitar, and 20th century classical, as well as Malagasy, North Indian Classical, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean musics. Like any probing artist he also draws creatively from his other abiding interests, which include information theory, experimental cinema, mathematics, experimental literature, and SCUBA diving.
In the Austral Summer of 2001-2002 Henry traveled to Antarctica under the auspices of a United States Antarctic Program Artists & Writers Grant. His official job was to record a solo guitar CD about Antarctica: ANTARCTIC GUITAR. This DVD features in-the-field video performances with Henry from the frozen Southern continent, including using the South Pole as a guitar slide, the Icestock Music Festival at McMurdo Base, and performing inside an ice cave, high atop the active volcano, Mount Erebus.
While Kaiser has helped unfetter the guitar from the conventions of genre-bound techniques, his instrumental virtuosity and technological breakthroughs are always deployed in the service of deep and immediate personal expression. Likewise, he has developed a highly individual, inimitable style from an uncommonly varied range of influences. Some of his musical sources include traditional blues, free jazz, free improvisation, rock, American steel-string concert guitar, and 20th century classical, as well as Malagasy, North Indian Classical, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean musics. Like any probing artist he also draws creatively from his other abiding interests, which include information theory, experimental cinema, mathematics, experimental literature, and SCUBA diving.
In the Austral Summer of 2001-2002 Henry traveled to Antarctica under the auspices of a United States Antarctic Program Artists & Writers Grant. His official job was to record a solo guitar CD about Antarctica: ANTARCTIC GUITAR. This DVD features in-the-field video performances with Henry from the frozen Southern continent, including using the South Pole as a guitar slide, the Icestock Music Festival at McMurdo Base, and performing inside an ice cave, high atop the active volcano, Mount Erebus.