Browse by Artist: JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Europe 2002
Label:	CAST EXOTIC ARCHIVES (CANADA)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	X 002CD

Originally released in 2003. "Double CD from this NYC/Portland/Vancouver collective of out there ambient skronk space explorers. Recorded on their breakout European tour from the fall of 2002, this set shimmers and builds, masterfully weaving tension with ease. All the best tracks and improvisations boiled down to 2 CDs of tripped-out bliss. This release is a jump from Jackie-O's recent release, Change on the French Label Textile. Covering a wide array of the sonic land, from psychedelic space rock, sax freak-outs, and layers of sound decaying & blooming."

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Earth Sound System
Label:	FIRE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.50
Catalog #:	FIRE 169CD

"Jackie-O Motherfucker's new album Earth Sound System is released on Fire Records. The physical releases feature artwork by artist Chris Johanson. You never quite know what you're going to get from the cult Portland, Oregon psychedelicists, Jackie-O Motherfucker. Are you going to be in for some deep brain thrombosis space rock? Are they going to prescribe you a dose of some heavily medicated camp fire drone? Will they be hitting you with some improvisational and angular free jazz? Will they be traversing the entire planet to bring you some previously unexplored global frequencies? Well, on Earth Sound System, JOMF's 15th album since Alchemy...Shit To Gold in 1995, it's a case of all of this and a lot, lot more."

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Earth Sound System
Label:	FIRE (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$24.50
Catalog #:	FIRE 169LP

Gatefold LP version. "You never quite know what you're going to get from the cult Portland, Oregon psychedelicists, Jackie-O Motherfucker. Are you going to be in for some deep brain thrombosis space rock? Are they going to prescribe you a dose of some heavily medicated camp fire drone? Will they be hitting you with some improvisational and angular free jazz? Will they be traversing the entire planet to bring you some previously unexplored global frequencies? Well, on Earth Sound System, JOMF's 15th album since Alchemy...Shit To Gold in 1995, it's a case of all of this and a lot, lot more."

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Liberation
Label:	FIRE FIDELITY (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$48.00
Catalog #:	FF 120LP

"Released as the follow-up to the acclaimed Fig. 5, 2001's Liberation finds these 12 artisans of sound (using a mix of percussion, guitar, vibes, saxophone, violin, and electronics) 'liberated' of the confines of any set genre or structure, hovering somewhere in the very outer stratosphere of song itself. From spaced-out jams like 'The Pigeon' and 'Peace On Earth', to their take on Dino Valenti's 'Something On Your Mind' (released on Karen Dalton's 1971 album), this amorphous beast can still deliver a rewarding experience to those who dare to journey beyond the instant gratification of the pop song, for it is here that the future of music is being written." Includes mp3 download card.

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Fig. 5
Label:	FIRE FIDELITY (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$48.00
Catalog #:	FF 121LP

"Formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994 by multi-instrumentalists Tom Greenwood and Jef Brown, and drawing inspiration from a multitude of sources (jazz, Appalachian folk, soul, African-American spirituals, west coast surf-rock, Protestant hymns, Louisville post-rock, bluegrass, electronic noise) and an ever changing roster of members, JOMF somehow manages to use this eclecticism to their advantage, creating a sound that functions as a cohesive whole. The critically acclaimed Fig. 5, originally released in 2000 on Road Cone, is a kind of dreamlike journey through the past and future of the American song. Such diverse offerings as the opening 'Analogue Skillet', the prison camp work song 'Go Down, Old Hannah', or the 24-min 'Michigan Avenue Social Club', become the inherent pieces of a unified manifesto." Includes mp3 download card.

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Change
Label:	TEXTILE (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TXT 002CD

"Inspiration is drawn from an impossibly diverse array of sound and vision: free jazz, noise rock, graffiti, space rock, folk music, Xeroxed art, the list goes on. It's safe to say, however, that the underground experiments of the 60s are a key touchstone -- musically, especially the NY loft avant-garde; visually, including Harry Smith's film loops; socially, in their grubby, seat-of-the-pants approach to life and personal politics. The amazing quality of Jackie-O Motherfucker is their ability to color experimental music and noise with more candor and emotional sophistication than most turtlenecked troubadours. The fresh creative input and enthusiasm for experimentation and sound exploration combined with strong roots in Americana has created a vital records. Change is organic, an emotionally cohesive path that starts with ecstatic disorientation and ends with an elevated calm. JOMF are indisputably self-aware and muse at length upon their process and goals, but in the end, instinct overrules calculation. The yield is a rich, multivalent music that reflects and refracts the larger world."

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Freaker Pipe
Label:	UZU AUDIO (CANADA)
Format:	LP
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	UZU 001LP

"What started out as an effort to issue some live recordings from the Fig. 5/Liberation era slowly turned into what is the most recent live recordings made available. The free jazz tinged freakouts you were going to hear have been shelved so we could bring you these three swirling moments in time. Almost an entirely different line up on this Jackie-O than previous releases, Tom Greenwood brings along Nick Bindeman, Danny Sasaki, and Eva Salens, joined by fellow sonic adventurers, Jessica Rylan on one track, while on the last track they are joined in Italy by The Moglass and My Cat Is An Alien. The entire first side features a s�ance sure to bring out all the ghosts in your home as the percussion builds and the guitars, synths, and saxophone create a shimmering, sparse back drop for the spirits to frolic to. While the second hints at the JOMF of yester year with a moaning trombone, a noodling blues-tinged guitar and the cries of a lone saxophone on the first track. And to close it all off, a dense, dreamy, endless mess of drones, moans, bells and such recorded in Italy. Released in conjunction with Tom Greenwood's U-Sound Archive, this LP is a one-time pressing of 1000 copies onto heavy 180 gram vinyl and enclosed in a custom gatefold jacket with four color printing, hand-screened right here in the great white North."

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Freedomland
Label:	VERY FRIENDLY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	VF 045CD

This is a collection of live-recorded improvised material by Portland, Oregon's Jackie-O Motherfucker. Compiled by founding member Tom Greenwood, this music captures the sound of a reconfigured Jackie-O during the late summer of 2006, with vocalist Eva Salens (Inca Ore), Tom Greenwood, Danny Sasaki, and Nick Bindeman. Their first stop was at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, where the group were scheduled for their first appearance supporting the Dirty Three. There they would begin -- unrehearsed in this formation, and in front of a large audience. The plans to perform material from their newest release Flags of the Sacred Harp were scrapped, and the band launched into a free-form set of improvised, trance-inducing, punk-inspired, psychedelic rock, which became the framework of the new music they would develop together over the next few years. Freedomland is the document of this trip through America. The record consists of location recordings, captured live, and mastered in the United Kingdom. The songs were created from the spirit of improvisation, and honed by performing nightly in dive bars, music halls, and art galleries across America. Salens' vocal delivery is raw and honest, the words flow from conversations, to streams-of-sub-conscious conjuring, and prayer. Guitars alternately soar into cloud-scapes, and battle like free-jazz saxophones, propelling the group into new terrain nightly, while the percussion of Danny Sasaki alternates between exploratory and dead-solid motoric. The collection was edited by Tom Greenwood, from dozens of live recordings, and captures a rare moment in the band's long and confusing history. As Greenwood himself describes, this is "truly the music of everyday life -- birthed each night in a new form, from musicians who put great faith in each other, under awesome strain at times, to project modern music, with soul."

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