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HI newsletter, 5-5-08

 

 

What’s Up and Out at Household Ink Records

 

It is Cinco de Mayo, and what better time to revive the dormant plan to put out an occasional newsletter re: Household Ink Records matters? It seems that our last one was in 2003. Time flies when you’re getting old.

 

Things are picking up in the land of HI. Last year, Household Ink Records—a willfully diverse and “regional eclectic” label—celebrated its 20th anniversary in operations. The HI machinery moves steadily forward in its third decade, with exciting and artful new releases.

 

David Piltch (who has worked with kd lang, Bill Frisell, Holly Cole, Loudon Wainwright III etc.) joins the Household Ink family with his debut solo album, Minister of the Interior, and Julie Christensen (Leonard Cohen, Divine Horseman, work with Hal Willner, Todd Rundgren, Lou Reed, etc.) officially releases her fourth and most ambitious album yet, Where the Fireworks Are. Both are vibrant mid-career artists corralling energies from their broad past experiences and the driving force of fresh artistic intensity.

 

Also on the near horizon is a long-labored-over new release by Zen Horse Repair (being primarily singer-songwriter-poet-mystic-nut Neal Crosbie, with ally Tom Lackner): called Ghost Brain, a two-disc set of artful sound, poetry and desert delirium.

 

On the gig front: SOhO will play host to two upcoming shows by HI artists, Julie Christensen and Stone Cupid on Monday, May 12, and Headless Household’s “Spring Sing ’08” on Tuesday, June 3. The Household is in the midst of its 25th anniversary year, and is busily working on a new CD (well, “busily” is a relative word).

 

Lastly, for a sampler of what the label is, was and is becoming, check out the new “HI Radio,” streaming selections from a catalogue now 30 titles deep, going back to the 1987 debut by the founding band on the label, Headless Household. We have just bumped up the bit rate for the station, which now puts it in the realm of FM radio quality, versus the nostalgic AM quality of old.

 

Point to: www.householdink.com/HIradio.htm

 

And thanks for listening/reading/being!

 

last updated: 5-4-08