Aloha

by Henry Kaiser

Aloha cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Metalanguage
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:13:15
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An uncompromising document of extreme solo guitar improvisation, 'Aloha' captures Henry Kaiser exploring the absolute limits of the instrument. The recording completely abandons conventional tuning and melody in favor of erratic, dissonant noise and avant-garde picking techniques, heavily inspired by the work of Derek Bailey[cite: 1].

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, instrumental, dissonant, atonal, technical, minimalistic, avant-garde, experimental, acoustic, improvisation, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. The Shadow Line (18:35)
  2. What The Dead Men Say (2:30)
  3. Christmas On Bear Mountain (2:24)
  4. 945 (4:40)
  5. The Empty Set (2:00)
  6. Twenty-Four Eyes (2:40)
  7. The Invisible Hand (2:35)
  8. Joaquin Miller (3:06)
  9. Aloha Gamera (17:45)
  10. Lynn's Mad Money (3:20)
  11. Aloha Slack Key (2:35)
  12. The Book Of Joel (2:00)
  13. Pale Flower (3:20)
  14. Future Blues/The Jinx Blues (5:45)

Credits

  • Henry Kaiser - primary artist, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, slide guitar
  • Bob Adams - bass, electric guitar
  • Scott Colby - bass, slide guitar
  • John French - drums
  • Erling Wold - electric guitar
  • Greg Goodman - piano

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