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mockhausen

Headless Household

Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2000
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Tracks

Opened House; For What Ails You; Lust's Drowsy Watchman; Elvin (Palimpsest); The Feeling of Give; Concretics; No Real Time like the Tense Present; Re-Opened House; Photo Shooto; Happily Mapless; Skippy Elvin; Wintry (Invention).

Personnel

Headless Household

author

David Binney

saxophone, alto

Ellen Turner

vocals

Jeff Kaiser

trumpet

Joe Woodard

guitar

Tom Lackner

drums

Chris Symer

bass

Dick Dunlap

keyboards

Additional Personnel / Information

David Binney, alto sax; Ellen Turner, vocal; Jeff Kaiser, trumpet.

Album Description

Formed in 1983, the confusingly eclectic New Music group Headless Household has just released its fifth album: mockhausen is a collection of outtakes, improvisation, and other artful noises, and is the least “commercial” one yet. From a motley range of sources, both live and studio-bound, structurally free and…well, slightly less free, a strange continuity emerges. One could even call it psycho-meditative. The discography: Headless Household (1987), Inside/Outside USA (1993), Items (1996), and Free Associations (1999), mockhausen (2000), all released on Household Ink Records. The group: Dick Dunlap, plugged and unplugged keyboards, Tom Lackner, percussions, Chris Symer, basses, Joe Woodard, guitars and turntables. Guests kindly join in, too. On several tracks, including the great New York-based alto saxist Dave Binney contributes his more-than-two- cents worth, attitudinal trumpeter Jeff Kaiser can be heard on “Skippy Elvin,” and Ellen Turner offers her luminous pipes to the concluding ballad, “Wintry (Invention).”

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