Bunch Of Guitar Solos, A: Henry Kaiser (2003) Rating: Starring: Henry Kaiser Director: Category: Music Studio: Cuneiform Subtitles: Length: 129 mins     25 Amazing Guitar Solos on 25 Unusual Guitars Here an intimate studio solo performances on twenty-five unusual acoustic and electric guitars. Henry Kaiser provides personal commentary on the music and instruments: Bohmann, Fender, Klein, Teuffel, Moonstone, Girl Brand, Turner, Alembic, Zvex, Asher, Mapson, Monteleone, Ransom, Anderson, Silber and Teisco. Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz and experimental music. He is one of the most extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 175 albums with such artists as Herbie Hancock, Richard Thompson, David Lindley, Jerry Garcia, Bill Laswell, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Drumbo, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Kimock, Negativland, Terry Riley, Jim O'Rourke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Frisell, Victoria Williams, Rossy, Greg Osby, Tarika Sammy, Bob Weir, Marilyn Crispell and Cecil Taylor. While Kaiser has helped unfetter the guitar from the conventions of genre-bound techniques, his instrumental virtuosity and technological breakthroughs are always deployed in the service of deep and immediate personal expression. Likewise, he has developed a highly individual, inimitable style from an uncommonly varied range of influences. Some of his musical sources include traditional blues, jazz, free improvisation, rock, American steel-string concert guitar, and 20th century classical, as well as Nalagasy, North Indian Classical, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean musics. Like any probing artist he also draws creatively from his other abiding interests, which include information theory, cinema, mathematics, and SCUBA diving. In the Austral Summer of 2001-2002 Henry traveled to Antarctica under the auspices of a United States Antarctic Program Artists and Writers Grant. His official job was to record a solo guitar CD about Antarctica: ANTARCTIC GUITAR. This DVD features in-the-field video performers with Henry from the frozen Southern Continent, including using the South Pole as a guitar slide, the Icestock Music Festival at McMurdo Base, and performing inside an ice cave, high atop the active volcano, Mount Erebus.