Jackie-O Motherfucker


Jackie-O Motherfucker is an American experimental music group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.

Biography

Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group is a collective with a shifting membership that has included more than forty members drawn from the U.S. experimental scene. As of 2008, the core of the group is focused on founding member Greenwood.
Jackie-O Motherfucker embraces free improvisation, drawing from a variety of subgenres including various folk musics of the world, free jazz, field recordings, psychedelia, drone, and noise rock.
The group's first three albums were limited-run vinyl-only releases on now-defunct Portland label Imp Records. Their first widely distributed album, Fig.5, was released in 2000 and was followed by a series of recordings, including the more meandering Liberation and the folk-oriented Flags of the Sacred Harp, which drew from traditional blues and gospel sources.
By this point the group were enjoying a higher profile, including performances at the ATP festival curated by Sonic Youth and Thurston Moore and a cover feature on The Wire.
Since then, the group has had recordings released by a variety of labels before settling down with the London-based label Fire Records from 2008's Blood of Life. The group also operates its own label of CD-R live recordings, the U-Sound Archive, which features live recordings from Jackie-O Motherfucker as well as other like-minded artists such as Double Leopards, Sunroof!, Decaer Pinga, and Vibracathedral Orchestra.

Members

  • Tom Greenwood – guitar, turntables, percussion, vocals
  • Eva Salens – vocals, keyboards, viola, tapes
  • Nick Bindeman – guitar
  • Brian Mumford – guitar, electronics
  • Jed Bindeman – drums

Previous members

  • Jef Brown – guitar, saxophone
  • John Flaming – saxophone
  • Nester Bucket – saxophone
  • Michael Henrickson – drums
  • Jessie Carrot – drums
  • Barry Hampton – drums, percussion
  • Adam Forkner – guitar
  • Natalie Mering – vocals, guitar
  • Josh Stevenson – bass, keyboards, guitar
  • Theo Angell – vocals, guitars, tapes
  • Honey Owens – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Dana Valatka – drums, electronic percussion, vocals
  • Brooke Crouser – guitar
  • Samara Lubelski – violin
  • Josh Diamond – guitar
  • Andy Cvar
  • Jack Denning – bass guitar, synthesizers, 808

Discography