The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body, is the eighth full-length album by American guitaristKaki King, released March 3, 2015. The album is the soundtrack to Kaki's projection mapping show of the same name.[1]
"The Neck" Live Show
In 2014, Kaki collaborated with the visual experience company Glowing Pictures to construct an innovative, immersive multi-media production in which the guitar is used as a projection screen to tell a story. The hour-long production, entitled The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, places the focus on the guitar itself, the Instrument serving as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other ever presented.
Glowing Pictures – known for their work with such artists as Animal Collective, David Byrne & Brian Eno, Beastie Boys, and TV On The Radio – collaborated with Kaki King and have re-conceived The Guitar as a screen for a remarkable range of new digital projections. Protections of genesis and death, unexpected textures and skins, are cast onto an Ovation Adamas 1581-KK Kaki King's Signature 6-String Acoustic guitar customized specifically for the production.
“The Guitar is a shape-shifter,” King says, “something that plays all types of music and really fills all kinds of roles. It’s not always the six-string guitar that we all know and love. I’ve been playing guitar for more than 30 years. It’s who I am and if anything, this project has made me even more familiar with it.”[2]
The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body debuted at Brooklyn’s acclaimed BRIC Theater in New York City in 2014, and will tour extensively in 2015.
