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mockhausen

by Headless Household

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Opened House 09:30
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For What Ails You 07:26
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Lust's Drowsy Watchman 03:13
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Elvin (Palimpsest) 03:44
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The Feeling of Give 03:25
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Concretics 07:26
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No Real Time Like the Tense Present 05:36
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Re-Opened House 06:51
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Photo Shooto 05:52
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Happily Mapless 06:12
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Skippy Elvin 03:08
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Wintry Invention 04:36
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Headless Household's critically-acclaimed album "mockhausen" is a actually a weirdly cohesive collection of "outtakes," improvisational matters, and assorted other noises from the Headless Household archives...guests: saxist Dave Binney, trumpetman Jeff Kaiser, and Ellen Turner, vox (and, by sampling happenstance, various parties).

AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Mockhausen is everything Headless Household's previous album, Free Associations, was not. The latter was the band's most commercial release in 15 years of existence, but as the pendulum coming back only to go farther in the other direction, Mockhausen is a lot more experimental than any of their first five albums, something expressed in the title itself, a play of words on the name of Karlhein Stockhausen.
Mockhausen is anything but song oriented. Mostly made of collages, this material comes from outtakes, live recordings, found sounds, and free improvisations involving all members of the band and a few selected guests (longtime friends Jeff Kaiser and Dave Binney). This is a big change from the song-oriented, almost entirely Joe Woodard-penned Free Associations, best epitomized by the guitarist's new interest in turntables. Sounds collide and song excerpts overlap in a collage frenzy. Surprise and deconstruction are the two main concepts used, but the listener still has a few moments to rest his ears, like on Dunlap's beautiful piano solo "Elvin" or the jazz ballad closing the album. This is Headless Household at their most adventurous and their best. — François Couture, All-Music Guide

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released June 6, 2020

Cover photograph by Richard Ross, album design by Kim Reierson

Apologies to Karlheinz.

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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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