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:	The Blood Of Life
Label:	FIRE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	FIRE 117CD

2008 release. This is the first album by Jackie-O Motherfucker on Fire Records. Recorded live in the studios of VPRO Radio in Amsterdam in 2007, The Blood Of Life contains two completely new versions of Jackie-O Motherfucker classics, "Hey! Mr. Sky," (an opus from Flags of the Sacred Harp) and "The Grave," as well as a reworking of "Valley Of Fire," all produced in a very minimal but powerful style. In addition, the record also features a traditional ballad, "The Lost Jimmy Walen," and a brand-new track, "The Blood Of Life," which marks a new direction for the band in a 18-minute exploration of free-jazz and drone-infused experimentation. Housed in a beautiful 6-panel digipack CD.

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Ballads Of The Revolution
Label:	FIRE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	FIRE 131CD

Beginning in Portland, OR in 1994 as a duo, Tom Greenwood and Nester Bucket began Jackie-O Motherfucker as a conceptual/musical project exploring the possibilities of combining tape collage, free improvisation, and folk song structures. Both had played in many bands, and wanted to form a group that could be flexible enough to withstand the failure, and challenges they knew would be coming their way in the future if they were to keep the project alive long enough to achieve their goals. True to their early imaginings, JOMF became the mutable feast of psychedelic art, far exceeding the visions of either of them. Nester departed from the band and Greenwood carried on with JOMF, now functioning as a collective. Ballads Of The Revolution is the band's tenth studio record, and the culmination of 15 years spent defining their unique take on American music. The record begins with an arrangement of a traditional ballad -- "Nightingale" features Greenwood's vocals and guitar with the lush, open accompaniment of Bob Jones' double bass and the pedal steel guitar of Lewi Longmire. "Dark Falcon" is an improvisation and remix of a song written and recorded by the Lucky Dragons. It's built on samples and loops of the original recording, including vocals by Honey Owens. Side one closes with a JOMF original, "Skylight," which has been a part of the band's live set for a few years, and has been beautifully rendered in the studio. "The Corner" begins with the pulsing bass of a Roland keyboard, accompanied by turntable manipulations and the sparse sting of Owens' guitar, its dark minimalism a new classic moment for the band. "The Cryin' Sea" was written in Arhus, Denmark during an amazing live set where an enthusiastic audience pushed the band to bonkersville. Featuring incredible guitar work by Nick Bindeman, and special guest Michael Dustdevil, who fills out the recording with raw fuzz guitar. The closing track, "A Mania," is a rare radio friendly track by the band that perfectly finishes the album.

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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