Henry Kaiser (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the

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music scene. He is considered a member of the "second generation" of American free improvisers. He is married to Canadian artist Brandy Gale. He is the son of Henry J. Kaiser Jr. and the grandson of industrialist

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Biography

In 1977, Kaiser founded Metalanguage Records with Larry Ochs (

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) and Greg Goodman. In 1979 he recorded '' With Friends Like These'' with

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, a collaboration which continued over the next 20 years. In 1983 they recorded ''Who Needs Enemies'', and in 1987 the compilation album ''With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friend''s? They joined with fellow experimental musicians John French, and English folk-rocker Richard Thompson to form

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for two eclectic albums, '' Live, Love, Larf & Loaf'' (1987) and '' Invisible Means'' (1990). In 1999 Frith and Kaiser released '' Friends & Enemies'', a compilation of their two Metalanguage albums along with additional material from 1984 and 1999. In 1991, Kaiser went to

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with guitarist David Lindley. They recorded roots music with Malagasy musicians and discovered music that, he says, "changed us radically and permanently". Three volumes of this music were released by Shanachie under the title ''A World Out of Time''. In 1994 he made a similar trip to Norway, again with Lindley, recording music that was released as ''Sweet Sunny North'' (2 volumes, 1994 and 1996). Since 1998, Kaiser has been collaborating with trumpeter

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in the "Yo Miles!" project, releasing a series of tributes to

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's 1970s electric music. This shifting aggregation has included musicians from the worlds of rock (guitarists

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and Chris Muir, drummer

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), jazz (saxophonists

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and

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), avant-garde (keyboardist

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, guitarist

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), and Indian classical music (tabla player

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). Kaiser has appeared on more than 300 albums and scored dozens of TV shows and films, including

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's ''

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'' (2007). He was nominated for a

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for his work on the ''Beautiful Dreamer'' tribute to

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. In 2001, Kaiser spent two and a half months in

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on a National Science Foundation

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grant. He has subsequently returned for nine more visits to work as a research diver. His underwater camera work was featured in two Herzog films, ''

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'' (2005) and ''

'' (2007), which he also produced, and for which he and Lindley composed the score. Kaiser served as music producer for Herzog's ''

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'' (2005). He was nominated for an

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for his work as a producer on ''Encounters at the End of the World''.

Instruments and effects

Kaiser "has amassed an immense collection of guitars, amplifiers, and effect pedals" to achieve "sonic diversity". A favorite of his is a Klein electric with

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pickups (his favorites), which he uses when traveling. He owns a Dumble handmade amplifier. He has been looping since at least 1984 (''It's a Wonderful Life''), initially with an MXR digital delay, and later with

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equipment—he sets modulation rates to "either heart or breathing rate, because those are natural healing rhythm rates". He often uses two delays to provide three different voices. He is also an avid user of a large number of effects pedals including the Hall & Collins Echo unit and a range of fuzzes. Kaiser has listed his essential effects as the Old World 1960 Compressor, Barber Tone Press, Origin Effects Slide Rig,

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Comptortion, Burns Buzzaround Clones, Tanabe Zenkudo or Dumkudo, Crazy Tube Circuits Starlight, Eventide Pitchfactor, Eventide Eclipse Harmonizer, TC Flashback, Red Panda Particle, and Neunaber Wet Reverb.

Discography

As leader

* ''Ice Death'' (Parachute, 1977) * ''Protocol'' with

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(Metalanguage, 1979) * '' With Friends Like These'' with

(Metalanguage, 1979) * ''Outside Pleasure'' (Metalanguage, 1980) * ''Aloha'' (Metalanguage, 1981) * '' Who Needs Enemies?'' with Fred Frith (Metalanguage, 1983) * ''Invite the Spirit'' (Celluloid, 1984) * ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (Metalanguage, 1984) * ''164 Spooky Pooch'' (Spooky Pooch, 1985) * ''Re-Marrying for Money'' (SST, 1986) * ''Devil in the Drain'' (SST, 1987) *

Crazy Backwards Alphabet ''Crazy Backwards Alphabet'' is an album conceived by cartoonist Matt Groening and recorded by Henry Kaiser. The core group features Kaiser on guitar along with drummer John "Drumbo" French (ex Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band), bassist Andy ...

(SST, 1987) * ''With Enemies Like These Who Needs Friends?'' with Fred Frith (SST, 1987) * ''Live, Love, Larf & Loaf'' (Rhino, 1987) * ''Those Who Know History Are Doomed to Repeat It'' (SST, 1988) * ''Popular Science'' with Sergey Kuryokhin (Rykodisc, 1989) * ''Heart's Desire'' (Reckless, 1989) * ''Invisible Means'' (Demon, 1990) * ''Hope You Like Our New Direction'' (Reckless, 1991) * ''Tomorrow Knows Where You Live'' (Victo, 1991) * ''A World Out of Time'' with David Lindley (Shanachie, 1992) * ''The Five Heavenly Truths'' (FOT, 1993) * ''The Psychedelic Guitar Circus'' (Sky Ranch/Virgin, 1994) * ''Acoustics'' (Victo, 1994) * ''The Mistakes'' (Third Venture, 1995) * ''The Siamese Stepbrothers'' (Cuneiform, 1995) * ''The Sweet Sunny North'' with David Lindley (Shanachie, 1994) * ''Eternity Blue'' (Shanachie, 1995) * ''The Sweet Sunny North Vol. 2'' with David Lindley (Shanachie, 1996) * ''Second Sight'' (Shanachie, 1996) * ''Yo Miles!'' with

(Shanachie, 1998) * ''Through'' (Materiali Sonori, 1999) * ''Passwords'' with

Paul Plimley Paul Horace Plimley (16 March 1953 – 18 May 2022) was a free jazz pianist and vibraphonist. He was one of the doyens of the Canadian jazz avant-garde, a co-founder of the New Orchestra Workshop Society and frequent collaborator with the bassis ...

, (Spool, 1999) * ''Guitar Party'' (Gaff Music, 2003) * ''Upriver'' (Cuneiform, 2005) * ''Invite the Spirit 2006'' (Tzadik, 2006) * ''A Tribute to John Stevens and the SME'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2006) * ''Domo Arigato Derek-Sensei!'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2006) * ''Where Endless Meets Disappearing'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2009) * ''Buddhist Stories for Awakening'' (Dharma Radio, 2009) * ''Plane Crash'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) * ''Ultraviolet Licorice'' (BLove Music, 2009) * ''Ninja Star Danger Rock'' (ugEXPLODE, 2011) * ''Can't Stop to Boogie'' (P-Vine, 2011) * ''Teuffel Tesla Duets'' (H(i)nds(i)ght, 2012) * ''Kamura'' (ZA Discs, 2012) * ''Encounters at the End of the World'' with David Lindley (Fractal Music, 2013) * ''Requia and Other Improvisations for Guitar Solo'' (Tzadik, 2013) * ''The Celestial Squid'' with

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(Cuneiform, 2015) * ''Echoes for Sonny'' (Musso Music, 2015) * ''Relations'' with

Damon Smith Damon Smith (born October 17, 1972) is an American free improvising bassist. He has worked with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brötzmann, Marshall Allen, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke etc. Biography Smith spent his ...

(Balance Point Acoustics, 2015) * ''Plane Crash Two'' (New Atlantis, 2015) * ''Nearly Extinct'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2016) * ''A Rainbow for Riley'' (Fractal Music, 2016) * ''Nazca Lines'' (Fractal Music, 2016) * ''Indestrucible Fantasy'' (Fractal Music, 2016) * ''Skip to the Solo'' (Public Eyesore, 2016) * ''We Call All Times Soon'' (Split Rock, 2018) * ''The Deep Unreal'' (Metalanguage, 2018) * ''Wild Courses'' (Iluso, 2018) * ''Five Times Surprise'' (Cuneiform, 2019) * ''More Requia'' (Metalanguage, 2019) * ''Problems Are Only Opportunities in Work Clothes'' (Fractal Music, 2020)

As sideman

With

* ''Infinity Squared'' (Ictus, 2006) * ''Guitars'' (Ictus, 2009) * ''Ghidorah'' (Fractal Music, 2017) * ''Above & Beyond Protocol'' (Metalanguage, 2020) With

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* ''Vol. Three: Guitar Trios'' (Parachute, 1977) * ''School'' (Parachute, 1978) * ''The Acquaduct'' (Rectangle, 1996) * ''The Guitar Lesson'' (Victo, 1999) * ''Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets by Wadada Leo Smith'' (

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, 2019) With

Weasel Walter Weasel Walter (born Christopher Todd Walter, May 18, 1972) is an American composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of ugEXPLODE Records. Walter's work has been informed by techniques and traditions of music including Av ...

* ''Revolt Music'' (ugEXPLODE, 2006) * ''Apocalyptik Paranoia'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) * ''Large Group Performances 2007-2009'' (ugEXPLODE, 2009) * ''Invasion'' (ugEXPLODE, 2010) With others * Morgan Agren, ''Invisible Rays'' (7d Media, 2011) * Derek Bailey, ''Wireforks'' (Shanachie, 1993) *

Bob Bralove Bob Bralove is a keyboard–synthesizer player who worked as a sound technician with the Grateful Dead from 1986 to 1995. Throughout his tenure, he performed as an auxiliary musician throughout "Drums" and "Space", the band's signature aleatoric ...

, ''Positively Space Music'' (Fractal Music, 2017) *Olie Brice, Binker Golding, N. O. Moore, Eddie Prévost, ''The Secret Handshake With Danger (Vol. One)'' (577, 2021) *

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, ''When in Vanitas'' (Skin Graft, 1994) * Tania Chen, ''Megasonic Chapel'' (Fractal Music, 2015) * Tania Chen, ''Ocean of Storms'' (Fractal Music, 2016) *

, ''Jazz Free'' (There 2012) *

Tom Constanten Tom Constanten (born March 19, 1944) is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Biography Early career Born in Long Branch, N ...

, ''Nightfall of Diamonds'' (Relix, 1992) *

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, ''Imminent Death'' (ugEXPLODE, 2019) * Jim French, ''If Looks Could Kill'' (Metalanguage, 1979) * John French, ''Waiting On the Flame'' (Demon, 1994) *

, ''Friends & Enemies'' (Cuneiform, 1999) *

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, ''Omaha'' (Celluloid, 1985) * The Golden Palominos, ''Visions of Excess'' (Celluloid, 1985) *

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, ''Healing Force'' (Cuneiform, 2007) * Vinny Golia, ''Astral Plane Crash'' (Balance Point Acoustics, 2018) *

Ivar Grydeland Ivar Grydeland (born 1 October 1976) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer raised in Kongsberg. Career Grydeland was born in Trondheim, Norway, and studied jazz guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music (1996–2000, and 2001–20 ...

, ''Into the Arctic Dreamtime'' (Rune Grammofon, 2020) *

Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he help ...

, ''Hardrock'' (CBS, 1984) * Herbie Hancock, ''Sound-System'' (Columbia, 1984) *

Jin Hi Kim Jin Hi Kim (born February 6, 1957 in Incheon, South Korea) is a composer and performer of ''geomungo, komungo'' and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist. Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing ''geomungo'' (거문고, a Korean fre ...

, ''Sargeng'' (Ear-Rational 1990) * Jin Hi Kim, ''KomunGuitar'' (What Next? 1993) *

Toshinori Kondo was a Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. Career Kondo was born in Ehime Prefecture. He attended Kyoto university in 1967, and became close friends with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. In 1972 the pair left university, an ...

, ''Moose and Salmon'' (Music Gallery Editions, 1978) *

Henry Kuntz Henry Kuntz is a free jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. In 1979 he founded Hummingbird Records and Tapes, which released, among other things, live recordings of his free jazz trio, Trio Opeye. Cadence Magazine described his multitrack ...

, ''Cross-Eyed Priest'' (Humming Bird, 1979) *

Sergey Kuryokhin Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Курёхин, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed "The Captain"; 16 June 1954 – 9 Ju ...

, ''Popular Science'' (Rykodisc 1989) *

Lukas Ligeti Lukas Ligeti (born in Vienna, Austria, 13 June 1965) is an Austrian-American composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical and various world musics, especially African traditional and popular music sty ...

, ''Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly'' (Intuition, 1997) *

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, ''Memory Serves'' (Elektra Musician, 1982) * Material, ''For a Few Dollars More'' (Carrere, 1983) * Tisziji Munoz, ''Auspicious Healing!'' (Anami Music, 2000) * John Oswald, ''Improvised'' (Music Gallery Editions, 1978) * John Oswald, ''Discosphere'' (ReR, 1991) *

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, ''Sub'' (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1999) *

Zoogz Rift Zoogz Rift (born Robert Pawlikowski; July 10, 1953 – March 22, 2011) was an American musician, painter and professional wrestling personality. Born Robert Pawlikowski in Paterson, New Jersey, Rift was raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jerse ...

, ''Island of Living Puke'' (SST, 1986) * Zoogz Rift, ''Water II: At Safe Distance'' (SST, 1987) *

Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his music became notable for it ...

, ''25th Anniversary Concert'' (New Albion, 1995) *

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, ''One Eye On the Future One Eye On the Past'' (Shanachie, 1993) *

, ''Daredevils'' (Metalanguage, 1979) * Rova Saxophone Quartet, ''Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special Revisited'' (Clean Feed, 2017) * John Russell, ''The Dukes of Bedford'' (Fractal Music, 2020) *

, ''Electric Willie'' (Yellowbird, 2010) *

, ''Dreams and Secrets'' (Anonymous, 2000) * Wadada Leo Smith, ''Najwa'' (TUM, 2017) * Richard Thompson, ''Watching the Dark'' (Hannibal, 1993) *

Michiyo Yagi , a Japanese musician who studied koto under Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai and Satomi Kurauchi, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. Between 1989 and 1990, during her tenure as visiting professor of musi ...

, ''Decayed'' (Idiolect, 2017) *

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, ''Lacrosse'' (Tzadik, 1997)

References

External links

Interview at Innerviews , 2016

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