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...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...
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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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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
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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).
Dudley:
dreamy and dynamically engaging art-folk, via singer-songwriter Ellen Turner, as heard on the third
song set, doin' jack.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.
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...
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last updated: january 12, 2008