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Head Honcho

by Harmonica Lewinski

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    LEWINSKI'S BACK with a brand new full length tape!
    Ladies and Jellymen introducing...
    ///HEAD HONCHO\\\
    "In a tight 28 minutes, Head Honcho spans the dial from weirdo surf to greasy garage to dirty disco to party punk. Recorded in Rochester NY by analog wizard Alex Patrick on ½ inch reel to reel. This full length tape from Harmonica Lewinski twists and turns its way through 12 cuts of swampy rock n roll, with booty shaker instros mixed in. Turn it over and start again."

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1.
Mondo Magic 02:56
2.
The Slug 02:03
bought a ticket and we're back in the red got a blue tag deal on a mannequin head draw up a contract to cover the cost the facts don't figure and u look like you're lost how come? getting soft it's against the law but getting down i guess it's allowed so do the slug buckle up heard the bells in the steeple keep ringing a tune but the man upstairs is drunk on the moon you'll have to call back in a day or 2 heard you built you're own bomb but u lit the wrong fuse you're getting soft it's against the law but getting down i guess it's allowed so do the slug bend down pick that nickel up + click it off
3.
Head Honcho 02:50
got a new job didn't ya know? now baby i'm the HEAD HONCHO got moves piles a dough got $$$ to blow look alive now stand on your toes and come tell it to the HEAD HONCHO lemme see you zipadeedoo i'm looking at you thats my name there up on the wall hope it dont fall tied up\locked down gotta keep you kids in line 24/7 i'm your loverbabe but i can only fit u in just twice a week coming up\struttin my stuff gotta act like i know where it's at coming in late then i'm going on break ya know there's only so much this boss can take but that's my name there up on the wall don't fall
4.
Bali Hai 01:23
5.
Disco Golf 02:41
don't let the record end you gotta flip it round and let your tired ears dig a different sound forget the things you've seen and what you read about i'm just checking in before i drop out when the party's over and the bottle dry you turn your pretty face to the camera's eye he'll trade you days for years of artificial nights if you've seen it once we're gonna make it twice took this outfit out on a road trip every town local crowd catching our drift get in the white van, 'hold me' is playing roll me a spliff, then hit the highway one rip-> tokyo drift someone in san fran ripped off the band's van left a pile a records in the shit n the sand but none of that can distract us from the mission at hand which is to give em the beats that tickle their teets and leave em shaking their damn heads
6.
Double Down 02:13
get on that pistol pete puffin' smoke in the hall sink the 8 ball piss drunk facing the wall and then drop out give me a call the phone don't work cuz we tore it apart come on honey double down on me sin city what could go wrong? i feel a hot streak coming shuffle the cards i'd like to speak to the big time woman in charge she's got a warrant out on jerry but he's still at large he couldn't pay the bail so he's playing the parts come on honey double down on me sin city make yourself at home
7.
Tiki Time 02:12
8.
Mango Mouth 03:20
holes digging up bones looking for gold with a worn out sole new bottles of blues living on fumes and a borrowed tune stop standing in the doorway baby come touch your little heathen boy tonight i know it still feels right please whisper what your soul is craving sing to me with the sweetest mango mouth body and blurry mind i don't know what went right do you wake up to the glow of a blue screen video show and the sound of a garbled radio tone? welcome home i got a new set of tools which i know that we'll never use get a bottle and a corkscrew look in her notes it's all she wrote
9.
Mick Jigger 01:49
10.
Bingo Palace 02:16
11.
put me on the good shit i wanna pick yer brain i know you got a different look now but i remember the name baby's in a coma you better take him home give him a shoulder to cry on and tell him leave me alone skin ripping on the blacktop crushed by a concrete wave coming in live from the rumble crawling back out of the grave breaking out i bet you wanna go cut a rug gonna make the boy psycho hot wet lucy lemonade talking trash while she's telling you to go away i remember the day that you lost it we never got you back too much of a good thing can make anybody crack creeping through the shadows trying to light a match going up and down the staircase think you missed a couple steps... skin ripping on the blacktop crushed by a concrete wave coming in live from the rumble crawling back out of the grave breaking out i bet you wanna go cut a rug gonna make the boy psycho hot wet lucy lemonade talking trash while she's telling you to go away now give it to me straight

about

Harmonica Lewinski has put forth a fabulous new release with "Head Honcho." This rockin' slab of greasy goodness mixes the elements of first generation rock 'n' roll, surf-a-go-go (think The Trashmen, or better yet Rochester's landlocked surf legends, The Tempests), and psychedelic freak-out. With "Head Honcho," Harmonica Lewinski has put together the party record of the season.

The guitars keep it slippery when wet while the organ provides an atmospheric — spooky, really — bed of nails beneath. The production is excellent, even cinematic in spots, but not overthought or polished. There's a ton of fight left intact as this cassette-only release (you can get the digital version on the Bandcamp site) plugs away with a worn patina and iconoclast aesthetic.

It's 11 tracks long, and I'm telling you there isn't a single clunker in the bunch. By the time you get to the lo-fi cut "Lucy Lemonade" — the rager that closes the whole affair — if you haven' crashed into a wall yet, you'll be able to flip it over and start all over again. One of the best recordings I've heard this year.
Frank Deblase - Rochester City Newspaper

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released July 22, 2016

Recorded and Mixed by Alex Patrick on a primitive Tascam 1/2" Reel to Reel machine at 444 Harvard St in Rochester NY

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Harmonica Lewinski Rochester, New York

/SHIRTS N SKINS/
/STOMP N GRIND/
/TRASH/
/DISCOTEET/
/CASH MONEY/
/BAD VIBES/
/BIG WAVES/
/FUZZFACE/
/FREAKBEAT/
/BASEMENT/
/HONKEY/
/SHEETZ/
/LO FI/
/BEACH TIME/
/LOKOMOTION/
/FREAKOUT/
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