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the roster:

...Julie Christensen, the dynamic and versatile singer who has gamely performed and recorded with Headless Household for years, has joined the Household Ink ranks, we're happy to report. Julie has released her long-awaited "art-pop" oriented Where the Fireworks Are, a timely, poetic and generally moody, rocking and lovely thing.

Late in 2006, Julie put out her "standards" album Something Familiar--her first release on Household Ink. The album includes Jeff Ballard and Kenny Wolleson on drums, Greg Liesz on pedal steel and Jeff Elliott on trumpet, as well as her soul sister Karen Hammack on piano... On the big screen, she's also a featured singer in the acclaimed new fllm Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (having sung with Cohen for years, and been involved in Hal Willner-produced Cohen tributes, including recent shows in Dublin, singing duets with Lou Reed...

   Headless Household: now in its 24th year, the new music combo slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. their latest "full length" album is their seventh, Blur Joan. on their previous model, post-Polka, the departure point is the polka genre, with elements of rock, punk, funk, zappa, nino rota, charlie parker, and other flavors. another one (or two) is/are in the works presently. Also check out Household keyboardist Richard Dunlap's wonderful solo recording, Ode to the Sistrum

  The newest addition to the Household Ink family of fine artists is bassist-composer David Piltch, whose fascinating new album, Minister of the Interior, is now available on Household Ink. Piltch, the Toronto-born musician, has been an internationally-known and traveled figure, working with k.d. lang for years, as well as Holly Cole, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux, Joe Henry, Loudon Wainwright, Liz Wright, and many others. A tasteful blend of instrumental and vocal fancies, Minister of the Interior features guest appearances from k.d. lang, Bill Frisell, Petra Haden, Holly Cole and Perla Batalla, among others, and heralds the beginning of Piltch's life as a leader...

 

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 flapping, Flapping: extra-pop, shameless Beatle-esqueries, with two albums out: TEX (1995) and the popular Montgomery Street (1996), on which friend and neighbor Glen Phillips joined the band for a wunnerful several months. A new album is being threatened for completion in 2006, commemorating ten years since Montgomery Street's release (we work slowly out here in the boonies of Santa Barbara).

Shelly Rudolph: the newest member of the Household Ink Records family, Shelly is a distinctive and soulful musical being, Her new album, Water in My Hand, boasts a  diversity of tracks and styles, and rhythmic landscapes from different global corners, making for a diverse creative journey. But it’s also one with a clear and coherent musical identity. Call her a “world soul” artist. check out her site: www.shellyrudolph.com

 

Nate Birkey: this tasteful jazz trumpeter/vocalist now has four albums out on Household Ink: the new live set, shortest day, Ballads, The Mennonite, and Indelibly You.  check out his site: www.natebirkey.com

 

  Jeff Elliott: the great jazz trumpeter finally releases a solo project of his own, Different Jungles, and it's a diverse, ambitious musical joyride, not quite like any other jazz album you've heard.

   Joe Woodard: the songwriter-guitarist adds -singer to the hyphenate with between, his first solo album. www.joewoodard.com

  Turnip Family Secrets: the original "play with songs" by Michael Smith, with music by Joe Woodard, released a cast album concurrently with its premiere production, April 12-21, 2002, at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara. Musicians in the elevated "pit band:" Dick Dunlap, keys, Tom Lackner, percussion, Jim Connolly, bass, and Woodard, guitar, and the cast is Fred Lehto and Paula Re (as Cal and Bess), Geren Piltz (as David) and Geoffrey Jones (as the fairy/giant). 

doin' jack cover.JPG (42793 bytes) Dudley: dreamy and dynamically engaging art-folk, via singer-songwriter Ellen Turner, as heard on the third song set, doin' jack.

Cara Tower:  Tower is a unique singer-songwriter, traversing folk and rock worlds, with an intuitive sense of texture and organic electronics.  The result: richly textured, lyrically pointed art-folk.

Brad Dutz: Household Ink is proud to host the inventive, and prolific, Los Angeles-based percussionist and composer, with his latest addition to the Dutzography, Heat the Grill Cook Loin, a new music concoction of chamber-jazz properties, and Dutz-ian wit and wisdom. 

Lean-To; neo-fusion and plenteous etcetera; debut album, Malarchitecture, is finally available... the band is joined by guests Airto Moreira, Glen Phillips, Ellen Turner, Trey Henry, and Bruce Winter. 

Brad Rabuchin: the smart jazz-and-more guitarist, who played in Ray Charles' last bandand is part of Lean-To, goes slightly askew, with melodic instincts intact: check out his debut album, When Smart Dogs Go Bad...

Jennifer Terran; left-of-center, heartful pop. She has also released fine albums on her own label (www.jenniferterran.com)

Fringe Deities: unaligned inventions, neo-aural-dramatics   


OUTPOST: showcasing non-HI artists we know and love, whose products we endorse, i.e. Creme de la Femme, Petracovich, Rob Taylor, the enigmatic rock unit Wasted Tape, reggae band The Cannons, and jazz vocalist Jerome Smith...

(more to come...)

 

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last updated: january 12, 2008