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LPR Presents at Littlefield: An Evening with Kaki King featuring the Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra (album release party for “Kaki King Live at Berklee”) LPR Presents at Littlefield: An Evening with Kaki King featuring the Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra (album release party for “Kaki King Live at Berklee”)

Thu October 5th, 2017

8:30PM

Littlefield

Minimum Age: 21+

Doors Open: 7:30PM

Show Time: 8:30PM

Event Ticket: $15

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*This is a general admission event at Littlefield: 635 Sackett St, Brooklyn, New York 11217*

Kaki King has s announced her first release in over two years,  Kaki King Live at Berklee to  be released on September 22The album, recorded live at the Red Room at Cafe 939 in Boston in April of 2017, features King performing new arrangements of her solo guitar compositions, reimagined with the addition of strings and woodwinds. King, Tom Hagerman of Devotchka, and Berklee students Takuma Matsui and Shereen Cheong wrote the arrangements specifically for the recording. The Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra is a 12-piece ensemble composed of Berklee students and faculty, conducted by student Gabriela Sofia Gomez Estevez.

BirnCORE, the Berklee Internet Radio Network’s (BIRN) record label, gives students at the college the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of operating an independent record label. Kaki King Live at Berklee is the label’s first release to feature Berklee students and faculty collaborating with a visiting artist. King visited campus several times last spring to rehearse with the ensemble, culminating with the live performance and recording.

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Kaki King

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a shockingly gifted, stunningly complex performer who’s just slightly out of place in too simple a setting.”LA Times

Watching Kaki King perform is like seeing guitar-playing for the first time… The effect is of sculpting rather than of playing music.”NY Mag

“bare, powerful, and propulsive.”KUTX Austin

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist Kaki King has released 8 albums over the past 13 years. She has performed on every continent over the course of multiple world tours, and has presented her work in a variety of prestigious arts centers, including the Kennedy Center, MoMA, LACMA and The Met. She has created music for numerous film and TV soundtracks, including “August Rush” and Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild”, for which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score.

Her most recent work until now, “The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body,” is Kaki at her visionary best: deconstructing and redefining the role of solo instrumental artist though virtuoso technique, insatiable imagination, and boundless humanity. This groundbreaking new multi-media performance uses projection mapping to present the guitar as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other, where luminous visions of genesis and death, textures and skins, are cast onto her signature Ovation Adamas guitar which has been customized specifically for this production.

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