Basemento, by Headless Household

Basemento

by Headless Household

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1.	Why Joey Can't Read 07:56	info	buy track
2.	Hey, Hey Brazil 05:29	info	buy track
3.	Bodies in Cities 03:58	info	buy track
4.	Jobim Meets Jim Beam 06:08	info	buy track
5.	(At the) Mercy of the Wing 04:28	info	buy track
6.	Not Me 04:43	info	buy track
7.	Umpteen Waltz 02:11	info	buy track
8.	Loneliness 04:33	info	buy track
9.	I Never Wanted You 04:46	info	buy track
10.	Liquids for Visitors 07:22	info	buy track
11.	Eighteen 05:22	info	buy track
12.	Basemento 06:28	info	buy track
13.	Timo Salminen 05:03	info	buy track
14.	Unbroken Glass 05:12	info	buy track
15.	Ragout 04:18	info	buy track
16.	Nigh 03:31	info	buy track
17.	A Littler Prayer 04:59	info	buy track
18.	Open-Heart Sandwich 06:06	info	buy track
19.	Face Up 05:39	info	buy track
20.	Mount Analog (for JZ) 06:08	info	buy track

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Celebrating its 25th anniversary (a year late, in 2010, due to Santa Barbara fires and other interruptions), the band goes deep and wide on album #8, with a two-disc project geared towards moving both in an "inside" and "outside" directions within the band's admittedly schizoid identity. It's a two-disc affair: one is the more vocally-inclined "This, That," while the second disc, "...the Other" goes in more experimental directions.

More digital paintboxing comes courtesy of Tom Lackner and Dick Dunlap, along with vocal tracks featuring Glen Phillips, Julie Christensen and our old friend-in-NYC Nate Birkey, also lending lustrous trumpet parts. Songpenner-guitarist Joe Woodard, along with his partners in time, usher in more Americana, Europe-ana, Braziliana, mock-prog-rock, free improv, jazz by any other name, and other instincts, all shamelessly stirred into the mix. Gifted old friends stop by to weigh in, including saxists Tom Buckner and famed alto player Dave Binney, harmonica wizard Tom Ball, pedal and lap steel player Bill Flores, mandolinist Kenny Edwards, violinist Sally Barr and bassist David Piltch (filling in where charter member Chris Symer doesn't do the low thing).

Kim Reierson, longtime Household Ink heroine, is supplying photography and CD design--and the inspiration for the tune "Eighteen," named after her beautiful cool book of the same name, about truckers.

www.relix.com/reviews/cds/2010/07/22/gabor-szabo-headless-household-omar-souleyman-and-more-ear-crystals

Press bite:
"Santa Barbara’s Headless Household celebrates 25 years of criminal neglect with a wonderful double album, Basemento (Household Ink). Come for “This, That…,” guitarist Joe Woodard’s song-oriented SoCal strip-mall blend of jazzy bossa nova and Bakersfield country laments (i.e., “Jobim Meets Jim Beam”). But stay for “…The Other,” a disk’s worth of some of the smartest and friendliest psychedelic jazz you’ll ever snuggle up to. Guest saxophonist Dave Binney applies the hot sauce liberally to these nine smart, incisive sonic meditations encompassing everything from British progressives like Henry Cow, gnarly New York downtown jazz, Weather Report’s international feel and the heady cosmic geologies of countless Grateful Dead space excursions."

--Richard Gehr, Relix, July, 2010

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released June 8, 2020

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Headless Household Santa Barbara, California

New music combo Headless Household (b. 1983) slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. Discography: Balladismo (2015), Basemento (2010), Blur Joan (2005), post-Polka (2003), mockhausen (2000), Free Associations (1999), ITEMS (1995, Inside/Outside USA (1993), and Headless Household (1987)... all on the in-house Household Ink label. ... more

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