{"id":573887663,"date":"2015-02-14T23:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T05:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887663"},"modified":"2015-02-20T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:29:14","slug":"kishi-bashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/02\/14\/kishi-bashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kishi Bashi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night we were at The Tabernacle<\/a> in Atlanta to cash in on my Christmas present. The Yankee got us tickets to see Guster play. I fell in with the band on their second album almost 20 years ago. Her god-sisters are also Guster fans, probably from college too, but, somehow, my wife never caught onto the band. <\/p>\n

She knows about three of their singles with something more than a passing familiarity, but she may be converted after this, her first show. It was my first Guster show in years — you can forget how much you enjoy a specific band if you don’t see them often, I realized. <\/p>\n

It was my introduction to this guy, Kishi Bashi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Kishi<\/center><\/p>\n

He’s doing a one-man show, looping vocals, beat boxing and his violin and running it through a sample-loop device at his feet. This just works better to see it. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n