Ludwig Van Beethoven, Sigmund Freud, Philip Glass, Silver Mount Zion, Edgar Meyer, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Alfred Kinsey, Sigur Ros, Low, Friedrich Nietzsche, Godspeed you! black emporer, Jimi Hendrix, Thelonius Monk, Bjork, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, Igor Stravinski, Caetano Veloso, Tarentell, Virginia Rodrigues, Autechre, Jean Luc Godard, John Coltrane, Pierre Bourdieu, Joao Gilberto, Gustav Mahler, Harpo Marx, Maude, Saul Williams, JFJO, Theodor Adorno, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Dilute, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Polmo Polpo, Aristotle, Dirty 3, Led Zeppelin, Eluvium, Zoe Keating, Primus, Rothko, Cinematic Orchestra, Matmos, Bulgarian Womens Choir, The Slip, Libby Kirkpatrick, Salvadore Dali, Can, Van Morrison, Tool, Johanna Newsom, Aphex Twin, Sly Stylone, Do Make Say Think, Dylan, Arthur Russell, Kahlil Gibran, TS Eliot, Angelo Badalamenti, Ani Difranco, The Beans, Bill Frisell, Silvio Rodriguez, Funkadelic, Unwed Sailor, Bedrich Smetana, Kaki King, Richard Wagner, Alexyss Tylor
...probably one or two or a million more.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME OF OUR MUSICAL LOVERS: The Ascent of Everest, Baby Teeth Theives, Roots of Orchis, And the furies say, His Life Not Mine, Stationary Odyssey, Bonfire Madigan, Jared Micah and the Hats, The Drift, Lazarus, By the End of Tonight, Kayo Dot, The Give, The Dead Hippies, Leslie Helpert, Sparrows Swarm and Sing, Castanets, Mike Tamburo, Lozen, Gravity Plays Favorites, Floating City, Lafcadio, La Fin du Monde, Pillars and Tongues
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SOME INSPIRATIONAL WORDS:
"In music, the passions enjoy themselves." --- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable." ---Hermann Hesse
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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism." ---John Updike
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"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed." ---William Blake
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"Wahrheit ist Feuer und wahrheitreden heisst leuchten und brennen...Nudas Veritas"---Gustav Klimt
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." --Thelonious Monk
We're a group of musicians interested in exploring the connection between music and sexuality. The line-up changes all the time; what continues is our commitment to experimenting with eros and its place in musical experiences.
We are a vehicle of critique. We start with the supposition that our culture's fundamentally prudish, willful ignorance about sex is connected to our culture's simultaneous cult of sexuality hidden behind thin veils of pop icons on the radio and television. We suppose that the shunning of the body and the attempt to make sex a mere spectacle are both forms of denigrating our sexual bodies. The true celebration of sex, as far as we can tell, has yet to fully manifest itself in our culture. We tip our hats to the sexual revolutionaries of the 60s and 70s, as well as the great sexual scientists Freud and Kinsey, and hope to continue their work through musical/sexual experimentation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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A NOTE ON THE SONGS FEATURED HERE: Most of the songs presented here for you myspacers are mere snippets. The actual songs tend to be quite long. We had to cut them up in order to make them available on myspace, but please don't settle for what you hear on here. To hear the songs in their full splendor, you can either buy the CD or get the full MP3s. Thanks for your support.
JFJO returns to CHICAGO on SATURDAY (OCT. 24) at The Kinetic Playground. Liquid Soul opens! Doors @ 8pm. Advance Tickets are cheaper and still available! See you soon!
Thanks for the friendship. Brotzmann 2009 USA Tour begins this week. Seattle, Houston, Austin, Grinnell, Chicago, Milwaukee, Lexington, Detroit, Philadelphia, DC, New Haven, Baltimore, NYC
JFJO returns to CHICAGO at the House of Blues on SAT. APRIL 4th with the new quartet lineup, in support of 'Winterwood' - the new studio album available as FREE download at www.JFJO.com! Fifth World opens. See you there!
JFJO returns to CHICAGO at the House of Blues on SAT. APRIL 4th with the new quartet lineup, in support of 'Winterwood' - the new studio album available as FREE download at www.JFJO.com! Fifth World opens. See you there!
Word, man. Hannah and I are in paducah now, but steph and some of the others are still in murray. Look forward....spring is where its at around here;) Be well and safe!
Ohh such a pleasant, enriching universe ;) And what a beautiful portrait you wrote here. Your photo is also cool and sensual, but in a somehow pure and innocent way _ well, after all, sex can be pure and innocent, isn't it :D
I haven't listened thoroughtly all your songs, but I'll do soon. (And it would have been cooler to have the entire versions of the songs but even so, they still sound and feel special, really..).
Des bises chaleureuses ;)) Quitterie.
Thanks a lot for your nice friend request.. A pleasure !
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