also,
jenna isherwood - violas on "my weakness"
dom gray - one of three drum sets on "sweet beet"
portions of previous tours included:
guy justusson - electric guitars
matt sterling - video projectionisims
Influences
chopin, lightning bolt, rudy van gelder, dianogah, king tubby, do make say think, refused, battles, low, phil elvrum, christian fennesz, steve albini, vladimir ussachevsky, pierre schaeffer, mice parade, ariel pink, el ten eleven, m. ward, effects pedals, coffee, max/msp, convolution filtering, the world, s.h.m.r.g., jean baptiste forier, gestalt, ice cream sandwitches, the books, the propogation of sound through air, radiohead.
Sounds Like
someone massaging your organ of corti.
OR
"it sounds like the end of a show where every pedal is turned up all the way" - alexander york, poet
"your music is very challenging" - some guy in halifax
"it's like "good vibrations." amazing." - bobby burg (of make believe, joan of arc ect...)
OR
"Hey Jeff,
This is Ty from Hurricane Alley in Las Cruces, NM. Thanks for your interest in playing here, but the entertainment here is much much more mainstream than what you're doing. Again, thanks for your interest.
Ty"
"jeff,
to be honest the turnout would not be good as we have a large hardcore/metal base in Modesto but I have included some venues/clubs/coffe houses who may be able to help.
God bless,
JOker"
"Hi Jeff,
thanks for the message, had a listen and even though I found your material enjoyable I think you are a little too experimental/not mainstream enough for the nights I am booking for at the moment.
cheers, Darren"
HOLY SHIT! SUMMER OF GLORY NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES!!!
"Jeff T. Smith, the solitary artist behind Juffage, appears to take pride in the experimental nature of his music... but the songs streaming on the site are far from inaccessible. "Requiescat" lopes along on a fuzzed-out bass line and tribal drums; "Drone," an eerie, nightmarish soundscape, sounds like a tape salvaged from humanity's final days on Earth; "Cubicle Blues," with its slurred vocals and kinetic drumming, is the sound of one man struggling to keep pace with the frenetic world around him. Try to keep up." - Andy Downing, Chicago Tribune
"Jeff T. Smith (a.k.a. Juffage) is changing the face of experimental music as we know it" - Emily Rippe, Toledo City Paper
"Chicago one-man-band Juffage loops everything he can fit into his car" - Michael Byrne, Baltimore City Paper
V/A - no parents '08, the new hawaii compilation (?, 2008, AMOD)
mammoths melting out of the ice!?! - meow hit lot dood ($5, 2005)
mammoths melting out of the ice!?! - self titled ($10, 2006)
mammoths melting out of the ice!?! - live at the u.c.f. + DVD ($10, 2006)
manduo - potatoe tape ($5, 2008)
all of these items avaliable through paypal by sending the money for desired goods to juffage [at] gmail [dot] com plus $2 shipping for any number of items.
hey jeff, How's the UK? Thanks for the video! Just so you know I'm performing as 'George Burl' now. If you want to change it, that's cool. Can you call or anything or just email?
that's awesome! i've been well. i moved to bloomington, indiana. hanging here with my girlfriend, got a job and all that jazz. couldn't let my dad pay my rent anymore/not pay it on time... but yeah, i'm loving it here. first time in the midwest. gonna hit up chicago on halloween.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Ahh! Good luck with the Masters sir! We're not doing gigs at the min (gotta concentrate on the label!), but I'll bend Owain's arm to have you back on in Newcastle once yr ready. Hopefully more people will turn up this time and hopefully I won't drunkenly (albeit nicely and surreally) heckle you! Take it easy chief. d.x.
you had a fuck ton of equipment too... gah. the mold is almost over, for now. hydrogen peroxide flood day is near. totally excited for bbddm! they turned our basement into the base of a sonic wish-wash tremolo volcano last time. my earplugs melted to the inside of my ear...
bronzed chorus should DEFINITELY visit the U.K....it seems there's much more appreciation for that sort of music there.
super glad to hear you're all set in the U.K. hope you play some shows soon!
i've been ok. the whisperlights had a fantastic weekend recording in LA a couple weeks ago...once we get the CD mixed i'd like you to hear it. indie pop, whoo!
the solo stuff is coming along, slowly but surely. in a week or so a thing i did should be posted up on www.thetraintracks.org...check it out.
judging by your recent comments you're already in europe. congratulations! southern illinois is quite lacking in juff now; your exodus is felt all the way down state, haha. good luck sir, and we'll be expecting to hear that ambient music you were talking about!
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