Kaki King & Tamar Eisenman Present: SEI
About This Event
Kaki King and Tamar Eisenman present SEI at City Winery NYC, pairing King's percussive, multi‑tuning guitar work and lap steel with Eisenman's blues‑folk‑rock songwriting and vocal-guitar focus. The lineup highlights guitar-centered interplay and technical variety: King's jazz-tinged melodies and unconventional tunings alongside Eisenman's rooted songcraft and production sensibility.
About SEI
土佐光起 (Tosa Mitsuoki)
SEI is a rock-pop stage work that borrows its name from Sei Shōnagon, the Heian-era court writer whose keen observations became *The Pillow Book*. In this version, presented by guitarists Kaki King and Tamar Eisenman at City Winery NYC, the subject is translated into sound: interlocking electric and lap-steel textures, blues-folk songwriting, and percussive, re-tuned guitar patterns. The show’s NYC context matters because it places a millennium-old literary voice inside a contemporary club setting. Its clearest strength is how the guitars function as narration rather than accompaniment.
About the Artists
Kaki King
Kaki King is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.
Tamar Eisenman
Tamar Eisenman is a blues-folk-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer, born in Jerusalem.