ARTIST: Kelli Rudick
TITLE: No One Knows You're Foreign
LABEL: Self-Released
GENRE: Instrumental Rock
BITRATE: 182kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 38m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-04-04
RIP DATE: 2009-03-11
Track List
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1. Birthmark 2:47
2. Please Wake Up 4:30
3. The Third Ear 4:41
4. Gypsy 3:23
5. No Expectations 3:39
6. Cactus 3:46
7. Strange Mirror 3:33
8. No One Knows You're Foreign 5:05
9. Are You Still Waiting For The 2:37
Messiah
10. Hypochondria 4:21
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/kellirudick
In an ex-industrial Brooklyn loft strewn with guitars and all manner of odd
instruments, Kelli Rudick creates beautifully crafted and intensely driven
compositions. Born in the states but raised in Israel, she spent endless hours
playing in the echoing sound of the bomb shelter just outside the familyÆs house
on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. After fulfilling her mandatory military service,
Kelli moved back to the US and worked to create alternate playing styles through
inventive fingerwork and variant tunings, creating a unique and inimitable
musical style. In Brooklyn Kelli continued to develop her unusually powerful and
expressive techniques. Using every timbre the instrument has to offer by
slapping, tapping, bending, restringing and de-tuning, she causes the instrument
to morph and transcend possibility in her hands.
In 2007 Kelli released æNo One Knows YouÆre ForeignÆ, a distinctive work
introducing her unique way of accentuating emotionally complex compositions by
drawing percussive rhythms from the fretboard and body of the guitar while
coaxing chordal melodies and harmonics from the strings. The cumulative effect
of this soundscape reveals transcendently beautiful dimensions in an anomolous
approach to guitarwork. Live shows in support of this record include intricately
crafted arrangements for solo guitar as well as looping beats, bass lines and
string driven sound progressions, creating captivating atmospheres though
multi-layered melodic structures.
Kelli Rudick has collaborated with notable artists including Nick Zammuto of the
aleatoric electro-folk duo The Books, Alon Leventon of the project Drops of
Conciousness and the electro-indie group Zigmat, and recorded and toured with
internationally acclaimed guitarist Kaki King. SheÆs scored music for Queer Eye
For The Straight Girl, ShowtimeÆs hit series æThe L WordÆ, and the independent
films æA Night in the SunlightÆ and æAbsolutely I DoÆ. Kelli has toured
throughout the United States and Europe, and has played extensively in her
adopted hometown including shows on the main stage of The Knitting Factory,
Galapagos, the Cutting Room, a month-long residency at the Living Room, and
fronting her seven piece band at the Blue Note in New York City. Kelli has just
returned to Brooklyn from a West coast tour and will add East coast dates soon.
The approaching winter finds Kelli recording for her upcoming 2nd release, which
adds new dimensions to her work and is a definitive evolution from her earlier
record. Accelerating the delicately complex terrain of her first recording, the
new compositions add precise string arrangements, driving basslines, steely
layers of variant guitars, mbira, nail violin, and rousing drums to her
distinctive chordal compositions. Kelli will continue playing the new material
as well as works from her first album solo and with her band. Please visit
www.myspace.com/kellirudick for updates, tour info and previews of KelliÆs
music.