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156 Strings: Nineteen Totally Original Acoustic Guitarists. Cuneiform 163, 2002.

Henry Kaiser is one of the elder statesmen of avant-garde guitar, having played and recorded with such artists as Fred Frith, Diamanda Galas, Eugene Chadbourne, and Zoogz Rift (not to mention a few decidedly apres-garde artists, among them Michael Stipe, Richard Thompson, and Bob Weir), and having helped to set the explorational bar for experimental jazz and rock music throughout the 1970s. This album is a collection of brief acoustic performances by guitarists who, in Kaiser's estimation, "sound like themselves and have something special to say" (brochure notes). In some cases, such as "Access" by the always envelope-pushing Fred Frith and "Getting to ...

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