Henry Kaiser

American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver

Born: 19 September 1952
Oakland
Country: United States
Record labels: Drag City, Metalanguage Records
Discography: 47 albums

Biography

Henry Kaiser is a jazz musician who plays guitar. Henry Kaiser was born on 19 September 1952 in Oakland. The music is usually filed under funk and free improvisation. Record labels: Drag City and Metalanguage Records. The discography here lists 47 albums, from “Protocol” (1978) to “The Lenoir Investigation” (2022).

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 in the San Francisco Bay Area 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 Henry J. Kaiser.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

Protocol 1978 · There Records Outside Pleasure 1980 · Metalanguage Aloha 1981 · Metalanguage Who Needs Enemies? 1983 · Metalanguage Invite The Spirit 1984 · Celluloid It's a Wonderful Life 1984 · Metalanguage Marrying for Money 1986 · Minor Music Devil in the Drain 1987 · SST Records Alternative Versions 1988 Those Who Know History Are Doomed to Repeat It 1988 · SST Records Popular Science 1989 · Rykodisc Hope You Like Our New Direction 1991 · Reckless Records Tomorrow Knows Where You Live 1991 · Les Disques Victo A World out of Time: Henry Kaiser & David Lindley in Madagascar 1992 · Shanachie A World out of Time, Vol. 2: Henry Kaiser & David Lindley in Madagascar 1993 · Shanachie The Five Heavenly Truths 1993 · FOT Records Acoustics 1994 · Les Disques Victo The Sweet Sunny North 1994 · Shanachie Eternity Blue 1995 The Sweet Sunny North, Volume 2 1996 · Shanachie Yo, Miles! 1998 · Shanachie Passwords 1999 · Spool Through 1999 · Materiali Sonori Guitar Party 2003 · Gaff Music Yo Miles! Sky Garden 2004 · Cuneiform Records Invite The Spirit 2006 2006 · Tzadik Night Sky Day Dream 2007 · There Records Where Endless Meets Disappearing 2009 · Balance Point Acoustics

A Little Stroke Of Light 2010 · Live

YO MILES! Lightning 2010 YO MILES! Shinjuku 2010

Ninja Star Danger Rock 2011

The Starbreak Splatterlight 2012 · There Records Encounters at the End of the World 2013 · Fractal Music Requia and Other Improvisations for Guitar Solo 2013 · Tzadik Plane Crash 2 2015 · New Atlantis Records

Plane Crash Two 2015

The Celestial Squid 2015

Igneity: After the Fall of Civilization 2016

Together Apart 2017

More Requia 2019 · Metalanguage

In the Arctic Dreamtime 2020

At One Time 2021

The Lenoir Investigation 2022

Five Times Surprise · Cuneiform Records Nostalgia for Infinity Outside Aloha Pleasure

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Albums where Henry Kaiser is credited as a sideman

1978	Abracadabra — Evan Parker, Greg Goodman	producer
1980	At the Finger Palace — Evan Parker	producer
1981	Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music 1980, Volume 2: The Science Set — Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Henry Kaiser, Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Greg Goodman, Toshinori Kondo, Andrew Voigt	producer, electric guitar
1984	Sound-System — Herbie Hancock	guitar
1988	The Technology of Tears (and Other Music for Dance and Theatre) — Fred Frith	programming
2026	Mount Analogue — Bill Laswell + P.ST (feat,N. P. Molvær, H. Kaiser, P. Howard,G. Haynes, P. Apfelbaum...)	guitar
2026	Mount Analogue — Bill Laswell + P.ST (feat,N. P. Molvær, H. Kaiser, P. Howard,G. Haynes, P. Apfelbaum...)	guitar