JARBOE is a singer, performer, composer, lyricist, keyboard player, and arranger. "To say she has the most amazing vocal range just doesn't encompass her ability to go from fragility and delicacy to raw screaming power. I'm going to steal a phrase from a friend here, because I simply can't put it better. "Half-siren, half-steamroller, a little like Linda Blair in "The Exorcist" in how she alternates from innocent little girl to roaring demon; 0 to 666 in under two seconds." -Guardian Unlimited,UK
Influences
WEBSITES: www.thelivingjarboe.com ,www.swans.pair.com MY WORK: "Her vocal shifts almost effortlessly from sinister whisper to telephonic spoken word and an almost Gothic Country croon." - Edwin Pouncey (for The Wire, U.K.)...
INTERESTS:
Iconoclast. Non-conformist. I love Steve Jobs, The Coen Bros, Martin Margiela, David Lynch, Cormac McCarthy, Alan Watts, Zen and the Art of Triathlon podcast, Joseph Campbell, Chogyam Trungpa, Tricky, Damien Hirst... My interests = diverse, eclectic. Solomon's Magick to Zen. Black Metal to Opera... Popol Vuh, "La Diva" Maria Callas, Mayhem, Wardruna, Down, Neurosis, Esoteric, Moonspell, Kataklysm, Electric Wizard, Nachtmystium, Cattle Decapitation, Dysrhythmia, Bloody Panda, Klaus Schulze, Einsturzende Neubauten, A Storm Of Light, Lydia Lunch, Jesu, Dave Grohl... I support the intense personal vision of people with whom I have worked : Michael Gira, Philip Anselmo, Cedric Victor, Lustmord, Justin Broadrick, Neurosis, Attila Csihar, Julia Kent, Josh Graham, Brian Castillo, Byla, Cobalt, Kris Force, Amber Asylum, Vampillia, Blixa Bargeld, Alan Sparhawk, David J, Lary Seven, Guapo, William Faith, Monica Richards, Wim Van De Hulst, Rochelle Heagh Phister, Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, Antic Clay, Envie, Diana Obscura, Cattle Decapitation, A Storm Of Light...and many more.
My eclectic life ? The Cult of "Celebrity?" Throughout my life as a musician : I've crossed the Alps in a blizzard with Swans. I've slept on the tour bus on the shoulder of Nick Cave. I've had coffee and vegetarian food with Henry Rollins in Zurich. I've walked the sidewalks of New York with Kim Gordon, and around Seattle's Green Lake with Bill Rieflin. I've hung out in the Icelandic Outback and gone out drinking with Bjork. I've served up coffee with heavy cream to Lydia Lunch "in my garden". I got Maynard Keenan to hang out barefoot in my house and be real. I've spent nights at Blixa Bargeld's home in Berlin and I've back yard barbequed with him in California. I've experienced the exciting sanctum of Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe on the set of Vanilla Sky. I've had Korean food at 3 A.M. in San Francisco with PanSonic and Naut Humon. It goes on....
In one chapter of this life, one of my personae explored excess... and I'm "still a child." I like running at midnight and dawn, my "secret garden" in the sultry South, the beach and vibe in Pacifica CA , the culture/light in NYC, the spiritual energy found in : Taos, Old City Jerusalem, Marrakech, Tangiers,Casablanca, Fez, the four corners: Utah, New Mexico & Colorado desert, the people, streets and/or cuisine of Copenhagen, Oslo, Trondheim, Vilnius, Moscow, Porto, Tokyo, Reykjavik.
"These are a few of my Favorite things" : Apple , OS X, Nike Air Rift , Vibram fivefingers (my running shoes), Toyota trucks, Maarten Baas, Martin Margiela, Gaultier, The Big Lebowski, intimate dinners/conversation, black paintings, Joshua Fraser's prose, Auriea Harvey(entropy8zuper.org), Italian Rennaissance paintings , Odd Nerdrum paintings , Seattle artist Francesca Sundsten's paintings/visual eye, Philadelphia artist Nicole Boitos (www.nicoleboitos.com), Georgia artist e.k. huckaby, Damien Hirst, Joel-Peter Witkin, Nayland Blake, Susan Sontag, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keefe, French cuisine, Moroccan cuisine, tribal tattoos, piercings, Oregonian: Pinot Noir & Stumptown coffee, stimulating films / art that impact & make an uncompromising statement such as There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, The Passion , American Psycho, The Music Lovers..., Buddhist texts, Wabi Sabi...
GROUPS: Dark Artistry: Audio, Visual, And Multimedia Arts, Dark Ambient Music, Meshuggah, Noize-a-Noise, Swans Are Dead, Endemoniada : Possessed Women In Metal, USDM: United States of Death Metal ... more.
SIGN: AQUARIUS
OCCUPATION: ROCKER ORACLE DEMONESS
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From the Goddess Of Destruction series, MAHAKALI( The Great Darkness) features songs in numerous voices. With guest performances by Philip Anselmo ( Pantera, Down), Attila Csihar (Mayhem). Visit thelivingjarboe.com for the PANDORA'S BOX set which contains all 3 versions of the album and an additional website-only release, Dark Consort. Each of the Mahakali releases ( US digipak, EU digipak and US jewel case) contain unique full songs/bonus tracks in addition to a standard set of pieces.
Jarboe's recorded and performed projects produce only her unique energy. She draws from a variety of charged sources, from her early exposure to snake-handling revivals in the Mississippi delta, parents who were in the FBI, her participation in a lounge act, experimental performance in gallery & live radio settings,her 14-year critically acclaimed recordings and collaboration with Swans doing worldwide concerts (clubs, theatres, festivals, live radio, TV). Her delivery can be at turns innocent, knowing, seductive, & vitriolic - contained in melodic as well as experimental compositions.
A primary objective for Jarboe is to close in on the gap in the audience/performer relationship via complete submission and vicarious experience through her performance. Through visceral vocals, her repertoire includes a variety of voices from the shy schoolgirl to seductress to demon. Jarboe's private agenda over the course of her life has been to fine tune endurance - physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through efforts in such disciplines as weight-lifting, kick boxing, mountainclimbing, running, role-playing, studies in meditation and Buddhism, and her intense work with Swans, she has journeyed her body towards exhaustion specifically with the intent of rebuilding / reinventing identity and exploring the structure of persona.
Jarboe's musical explorations have led to select comparisons to other female musicians with regard for their success in penetrating the otherwise male-dominated "rock" subculture. Her work in and outside of the legendary Swans has received international critical attention. Jarboe is featured in Andrea Juno's groundbreaking book: Angry Women In Rock, and Adele Olivia Gladwell's women's studies/cultural theory: Catamania. She has been included in numerous other editorials and books such as The Wire, New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out, Tip, Spex, People, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, Terrorizer, Rolling Stone, Art Papers, Outburn, Signal To Noise...and so on.
Highlights from the Jarboe tour diary include : • "Work In Progress" Arts Program performances in NYC, Chicago, and Atlanta. • Performance at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal • Performance at PS122 in NYC • Europe/US Tour with the Italian avant-garde group, Larsen • US Tour and London show with Neurosis • Performances in the Baltic region, which included performances in cathedrals. • Concerts on the East and West Coast with Amber Asylum, Blixa Bargeld, Red Sparowes • Concerts in Moscow, Budapest, Seville, and various regions of Europe.
The eclectic roster of Jarboe's musical collaborators includes: Michael Gira, Bill Laswell, Jim Thirlwell,Lustmord, PanSonic, Mark Spybey, Steven Severin, Chris Connelly, Alan Sparhawk, Neurosis, Edward KaSpel, William Faith, David J, David Torn, Bill Rieflin, Iva Davies, Blixa Bargeld, Kris Force, Cedric Victor, Julia Kent, A Perfect Circle, Brian Castillo, Nic Le Ban, Lary Seven, Cobalt, Byla, Jesu, Justin K. Broadrick. She has done voice over for The Venture Brothers cartoon. She has worked with visual artists in film / photography / design including : Richard Kern, Cedric Victor, Beth B, Laura Levine, Wim Van De Hulst, Rochelle Heagh Phister, and Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn.
Considered a true independent of the 21st century and "internet pioneer" for music, Jarboe has been panelist on "Artists and the Internet" at the CMJ convention in NYC. Jarboe has released 14 solo albums in addition to working on 20+ Swans albums and 60+ collaborative projects with visual & sound artists all over the world. She has recorded in various countries, including Europe , Japan, and the Middle East.
COMING :
A "collective" entitled: The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult is in production. Also forthcoming is a DVD release of the first NYC concert of The Living Jarboe. Available now is an interactive vignette from Europe entitled: Fatale.
Dearest Jarboe, I know you are an I phone user so...
I've created a sound piece (I conic) using only free I phone applications and Ableton Live. I'm sure this idea is nothing new but I had fun with it and so, there you are kids. Enjoy and please feel free to leave me feedback.
Six signals from void; in an inverted rotten era that stands for anything, everything and nothing Nekrasov embraces Nothing as a state and rejects Nothing as a value. The Clouds Will Pour Rain Unseasonably.
OH MY GOD I HATE THE HOLIDAYS!!! SERIOUSLY! How are you holding up? I see you're playing the Triple Rock! They have AMAZING veggie options! Seriously, I ate there twice the night we played.. haha... Hope everything's going well! -Travis
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