{"id":6727,"date":"2023-03-07T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=6727"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:31:37","slug":"wobbly-additional-kids","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=6727","title":{"rendered":"Wobbly &#8211; Additional Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6728\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Wobbly-Additional-Kids-FINAL-DIGITAL-COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Wobbly-Additional-Kids-FINAL-DIGITAL-COVER.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Wobbly-Additional-Kids-FINAL-DIGITAL-COVER-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Wobbly-Additional-Kids-FINAL-DIGITAL-COVER-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Wobbly-Additional-Kids-FINAL-DIGITAL-COVER-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Wobbly-Additional-Kids-FINAL-DIGITAL-COVER-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> To be released on CD, cassette, and digitally on 6\/9\/23. CD packaged in a digipak. C50 &#8211; gray cassette with black imprints. This is the catalog page with album information and artwork. To purchase, head to our <a href=\"http:\/\/hausumountain.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">__________<\/h5>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1180455973\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/w0bbly.bandcamp.com\/album\/additional-kids\">Additional Kids by Wobbly<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">San Francisco-based multimedia artist, composer, and improviser <b>Jon Leidecker<\/b> makes music under the pseudonym <b>Wobbly<\/b>. He is an active member of both the seminal experimental group <b>Negativland<\/b>, and with the <b>Thurston Moore Group<\/b>. Over the course of a varied musical practice that began in the mid-1980s, <b>Wobbly<\/b> has collaborated with artists including <b>Matmos<\/b>, <b>Dieter Moebius<\/b> (<b>Cluster<\/b>), <b>Jennifer Walshe<\/b>, <b>Fred Frith<\/b>, <b>Tim Story<\/b>, <b>Cheryl E. Leonard<\/b>, <b>Zeena Parkins<\/b>, and <b>People Like Us<\/b>. Leidecker has released recordings on labels like Illegal Art, Important Records, Bureau B, and Tigerbeat6. After contributing extensively to <b>Negativland<\/b>\u2019s live-mix radio program <b><i>Over The Edge<\/i><\/b>, spearheaded by the late Don Joyce and broadcast from Berkeley\u2019s KPFA FM, Leidecker inherited the program in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Additional Kids<\/i><\/b>, <b>Wobbly<\/b>\u2019s third release on Hausu Mountain, follows the app-exploiting experiments of 2019\u2019s <i>Monitress <\/i>(HAUSMO96) and 2021\u2019s <i>Popular Monitress<\/i> (HAUSMO110) with a song cycle that introduces a strain of Leidecker\u2019s music rarely heard in his wide-ranging solo catalog: mutated pop music with vocal performances from a diverse guest list of singers appearing on nearly every track. Far from conforming to any standard playbook, <b>Wobbly<\/b>\u2019s conception of pop can\u2019t help but get warped and refracted through his idiosyncratic tonal sensibilities and his irreverent sense of humor. In consort with the constantly surprising turns of each guest artist\u2019s vocal performance, <b><i>Additional Kids<\/i><\/b> carries on Leidecker\u2019s ever-bewildering high-definition synthesis practice and his confounding production decisions as he builds tracks from staccato bursts of synth, clanging percussion, and garbled swathes of glitched texture. <b>Wobbly<\/b> considers <b><i>Additional Kids<\/i><\/b> to be a \u201cmulti-generational album about generations\u201d and explains that it was \u201coriginally recorded in the early 2000s from the perspective of a bunch of friends asking themselves the question of whether or not to have kids while in their early 30s, then finished 15 years later in their late 40s after some of them had, and some of them hadn\u2019t.\u201d He adds, \u201cas the years pass asking yourself whether or not you should, the question is easily answered by any of the kids who are already here.\u201d Though some sonic elements, lyrics, and production ideas date back as far as 1999, the album sidesteps the status of an archival release or a collection of odds-and-ends and stands as a fully formed statement in its own right \u2014 a bittersweet and ultimately ridiculous opus that could have only been completed after a long period of gestation and reflection. Instead of wallowing in the trappings of pro- or anti-natalism, <b>Wobbly<\/b> and his collaborators cast themselves as jesters who can deflate these heavy existential considerations through parody and exaggeration, through abrasion and delight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">While album opener \u201cNot Home\u201d presents a particularly demented<b> Wobbly<\/b> production like a bustling dwarven workshop of synthetic woodwinds, Burkinabe artist <b>Mai Lingani<\/b>\u2019s pyrotechnic vocal performance provides an improbable contrast with escalating sequences of high notes and ecstatic chants. \u201cThe Hospital\u201d finds vocalist <b>DemonSleeper<\/b> (Alexandra Buschman-Rom\u00e1n of <b>Las Sucias<\/b>) floating to operatic heights over Leidecker\u2019s web of saw waves and kosmische bleep architecture. Ana Machado\u2019s charismatic rapping weaves between squishes and percussive detonations on \u201cWhite Eggs.\u201d\u00a0\u201cYou Belong Here\u201d lopes over a consonant chord progression of lightly detuned synths that serve as a backdrop for a choir of Bay Area underground legends: <b>Pamela Z<\/b>, <b>Las Sucias<\/b>, and <b>Blectum from Blechdom<\/b> \u2014 abetted by the saxophone of plunderphonic progenitor <b>John Oswald<\/b>. Speaking on the contributions of the many collaborators that appear on <b><i>Additional Kids<\/i><\/b>, Leidecker reveals, \u201cOnly recently did I really hear what all of our lyrics were on about\u201d: the viability of having children, the terror and exhilaration of parenting, the sacrifices of domestic life, and the reality behind the alternatives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Though these themes swirl through <b><i>Additional Kids<\/i><\/b>, <b>Wobbly<\/b> and his collaborators twist them into their own gleeful forms of creation and recreation. As Leidecker explains, \u201cThe album is also very much about that overlapping bit on the venn diagram between the things people do to make their kids happy, and the things people do instead of having kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Additional Kids<\/i><\/b> features contributions from: <b>0th<\/b> (<b>Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork<\/b>, <b>Caryl Kientz<\/b>, <b>Canner Mefe<\/b>, <b>MNDR<\/b>), <b>Liz Albee<\/b>, <b>Kevin Blechdom<\/b>, <b>Blevin Blectum<\/b>, <b>Anne Bourne<\/b>, <b>DemonSleeper<\/b>, <b>Dina Emerson<\/b>, <b>Dominique Leone<\/b>, <b>Mai Lingani<\/b>, <b>Ana Machado<\/b>, <b>Anne McGuire<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Kanoko Nishi-Smith<\/b>, <b>John Oswald<\/b>, <b>Phipps Pt.<\/b>, <b>Danishta Rivero<\/b>, <b>Shatter Pattern<\/b>, <b>Sue-C<\/b>, and <b>Pamela Z<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6748\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wobbly-2023-Press-photo-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wobbly-2023-Press-photo-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wobbly-2023-Press-photo-2-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6730\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tape-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6731\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CD-Digi-Pack-Mock-up-03-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CD-Digi-Pack-Mock-up-03-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CD-Digi-Pack-Mock-up-03-copy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be released on CD, cassette, and digitally on 6\/9\/23. CD packaged in a digipak. C50 &#8211; gray cassette with black imprints. This is the catalog page with album information and artwork. 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