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post-Polka
(a subsidiary of Headless Household),
does up the 2nd annual “alt-Oktoberfest” at Muddy Waters, Wednesday,
October 27
For immediate release:
What:
post-Polka (a subsidiary of Headless Household), 2nd annual
“alt-Oktoberfest!” show
Where: Muddy Waters, 508 E. Haley St., Santa Barbara
When: Wednesday, October 27, 8:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5 (beer tariff not included)
Contact: (805) 966-9328,
Thirsty for suds and odd sounds with a propulsive polka beat? Check out post-Polka, a subsidiary of Santa Barbara’s helplessly eclectic band Headless Household. The band kicks up the polka in its 2nd annual “alt-Oktoberfest,” at Muddy Waters on Wednesday, October 27. Opening for p-P is the band Hot Ghoulash, featuring polka royalty Spencer Barnitz.
In 2003, Headless Household released the conceptual polka
album post-Polka. Some loved it.
Others didn’t. Others are still snoozing in the jury box. After a couple of
strictly-polka gigs, a resolve was made to create a spinoff band, hereby dubbed
post-Polka. At the moment, the members of post-Polka are: Julie “the polka queen”
Christensen, bassist Jim Connolly, faux accordionist Dick Dunlap, drum man Tom
Lackner, guitarman Joe Woodard, saxist/clarinetist Tom Buckner,
violinist/vocalist Sally Barr, multi-instrumental wizard/nice guys Bill Flores
and… (?) This is not your father’s polka, unless your father likes Jimmy Sturr,
Brave Combo, Stravinsky, Zappa, John Zorn, Nino Rota, and modulating waltzes.
Recorded at the old Riviera Studios by Wayne Sabbak and at the Tompound
by Tom Lackner, post-Polka was the
sixth album by Headless Household and its 20th anniversary
celebration project. It has gone on to be one of the band’s “hottest” sellers,
especially in the digital realm. With luck and gumption, another
post-Polka album is in the works… Go
figure. Come polka.
Press for post-Polka
“Almost every song here benefits from unusual arrangement or instrumentation
choices, veering closer to a Soul Coughing fever dream than a classical polka
album. But while this isn't your grandparents' polka, it isn't Weird Al's
pop-culture mockery, either. Headless Household are men who understand the need
to balance irreverence with reverence, who realize that the clarinet can be
ominous, who know that clowns are scary…a willingness to expand your horizons
and a broad sense of humor will help immensely. Still, despite the relative
taboo of polka itself among the "forget where you came from" generation, I'd
recommend Post Polka to anyone willing to wrap their head around it.
After all, when's the last time you heard an album that refused to let you
down?”
--Justin
Kownacki,
Splendid e-zine,
www.splendidezine.com
“The first thing to understand about the Household’s music is that when they
announce a genre—say, polka for example—that hardly means they will stick to
anything much resembling a traditional polka, or even that one of their polkas
will sound much like another…. What unites these disparate approaches is a
commitment to the sound and values of free improvisation… Everything that gets
thrown into this musical blender seems to belong there…Here’s to many more years
of this unique Santa Barbara tradition.”
--Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara
Independent, re: the 2006 xmas concert
“One of the last unexplored realms of Americana is the rich and colorful
tapestry of European-American polka music. Charlie Mingus was to have said,
`White man, study your polkas.’ Here Headless Household playfully has opened the
songbook…”
--Greg Drust, Milwaukee-based Polka DJ/scholar, from his
post-Polka liner notes
On the worldwide interweb:
www.myspace.com/postpolkatheband
www.householdink.com/post-Polka.htm
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