This year’s
star on SURVIVAL’s music scene will be Jackie-O Motherfucker, a musical
collective from Portland, USA.
Jackie-O Motherfucker
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One of the most important bands of the New Weird America movement (the term refers to ‘Old Weird America’, which described the 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music), which five years ago gave the world revelations such as Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective or CocoRosie. Apart from Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man and the bands grouped around Jewelled Antler Collective, they created a rougher and more avant-garde version of the movement, situated in the tradition of psychedelic music, American and British folk, collective improvisation, concrete music, noise (a style which is especially popular in Portland, where JOMFs come from) and drone music. Like other bands led by Loren Chasse, Jackie-O Motherfucker operate as a musical collective. One of its members is Tom Greenwood, who does plastic arts as well as music. His photographs appeared alongside eg. Nan Goldin and Rene Richard in New York Urban Analysis art gallery.
During the 15 years of their existence, Jackie-O Motherfucker have released almost 20 albums, frequently in limited editions on vinyl records and CDR, in labels such as Imp Records (Portland), Ecstatic Peace! (led by Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth), Textile (Paris), Very Friendly (London), ATP Recordings (record label of the biggest British independent music festival – All Tomorrow’s Parties), Fire Records (London) or Unity Sound Archive. The last one, led by Greenwood, apart from recordings of JOMFs’s concerts, released albums of bands such as Double Leopards, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, My Cat Is Alien, Burning Star Core, Ashtray Navigations, Tetuzi Akiyama. It is among them that the stylistic inspirations could be traced.
Current members of JOMFs:
Tom Greenwood
– Honey Owens (solo musical project Valet with Kranky),
– Dana Valatka
– Nick Bindeman (solo musical project Tunnels and Eternal Tapestry band)
– Brooke Crouser (appears in Hrsta andi Blaxk Ox Orkester bands, which record for Constellation),
– Danny Sasaki (known from The Old Haunts from Olympii, which records for Kill Rock Stars).
– Eva Salens (solo musical project Inca Ore)
Detailed programme of the concerts coming soon.
