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Hat City Intuitive

About Me

Evolving over 18 years ago from the equally fertile and toxic fields of Western Connecticut/Westchester, NY that spawned such acts as Tower Recordings, Bunnybrains, and Cro-Magnon, The Hat City Intuitive (aka HCI) have been experimenting with the purest forms of improvisation, dabbling in free jazz, noise-rock, and just -sounds as sounds. The band is released their 2 latest albums simultaneously in 2006 on their own Hat City Sounds label following the snails pace release schedule of 1995's Superlux Records "Happiness Is A One Trick Pony/Crying Is Shaped Like A Seahorse" and 2000's Crank Automotive "They Must be Clapping For...Me". The two newest albums "Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot" and "/....//../..// (grey goose & a whole lotta hydro)" are of various studio sessions over the past 5 years, which represent the full range of this unique band: the clatter, the clang, the noise, the serious, and the fun. since 2008 HCI has had some of its most productive years with less rare live shows with more planned as well as a new releases in the works.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/04/2006
Band Website: http://www.hatcitysounds.com/
Band Members: current: Nix Pickler, Many Spacehips, Sax Blabbath, Heckie "the Heckler" Hecler, Gene Moore, other times: Jugular Plumbob, Thoroughly Atlaffed, Greg Vegas with Chris Ludwig, Davo, and also Fat Angelique, Special Orbit, P.T. Hughes
Influences: dead c, the fall, art ensemble of chicago, albert ayler, this heat, sneakers and a handfull of change in a washing machine, sun city girls, beer, college boy, cromagnon, euro-prog rock, CroMagnon, a marching band falling down the stairs,
Sounds Like: Star Trek! improv/free-jazz/avant garde/noise/prog rock/a racket!
Record Label: hat city sounds/crank automotive

My Blog

HCI and PB&J

the unlikely union of pop and skronk collided on stage at the 9:30 Club in DC on Saturday Nov 7th. THe HAT CITY INTUITIVE was invited to join Swedish indie-pop stars PETER BJORN AND JOHN for a song du...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Some Classic HAT CITY INTUITIVE live on WFMU

FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE HCIcheck out the Free Music Archive for a classic HCI session on On Stork's show on WFMU Oct 12 - 1997 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hat_City_Intuitive/
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:40:00 GMT

HCI's Gig at the Stone is part of a month curated by Grey Garston

Check out the rest of the shows. They look great!http://lovegloom.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/upcoming-gre y-gersteng-lucas-crane-grey-gersten-curated-month-at-the-sto ne/
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:07:00 GMT

HCI on WFMU

http://www.freemusicarchive.org/Coming in April a February 25 2001 live set from The HCI. Dig it!
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:32:00 GMT

HCI at Galapagos Brooklyn - May 2003

Check it out, and check out the rest of the Shoddy Merchandise scene, run by HCI Emeritus Matthew Kohnle.http://www.shoddymerchandise.com/
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:31:00 GMT

Review of the Heirloom Show in Danbury

http://www.hatcityentertainment.com/content/view/323/1/by Conor AndrewsWhat Is Music?What is music? One could say that music is sound assembled by man through rhythm, melody, harmony and dynamics. One...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:48:00 GMT

City Paper Pop Quiz from late 90’s. Wow.

http://washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/indc/popquiz/2000/po p0519.htmlThey say you can tell a lot about a man by his hat. What can we tell you about a band called THE HAT CITY INTUITIVE? We can say th...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Write up for the last show at Washington Post online - vale 611

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2008/09/the_e nd_of_the_citys_best_hous.htmlThe End of the City's Best House Show VenueThe living room of 611 Florida was the city's most intimate perform...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:50:00 GMT

Perfomer Mag review of Peoples Center Show

http://www.performermag.com/nep.livereviews.0808.phpThe New Haven People's center, a modest building doubling as a community activism center, served as the medium for an energized night of sound on Sa...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45:00 GMT

9/13 at 611 Florida Ave, DC

Saturday, 9/13:THE END OF 611 FLORIDA = FREE FOLK PHANTASMAGORY Vwith Kohoutek, The Julie Mittens, Max Ochs, Human Adult Band, Hat City Intuitive, plus more TBA!4pm, $5 suggested donation BYOW! See cl...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:48:00 GMT