Jackie-O Motherfucker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jackie-O Motherfucker (or JOMF) is an American experimental rock group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.

Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group now has more than twenty rotating members drawn from the U.S. experimental scene. As of 2006, the core of the group is founding member Greenwood and Jef Brown.

JOMF's music draws from a variety of subgenres including drone, free jazz, space-rock and is heavily improvisational in its nature. Because they are a collective, rather than a consistent band or group, the sound of their music can change from performance to performance. The group operates its own label of CD-R live recordings, the U-Sound Archive, which features concert recordings from JOMF as well as like-minded subterranean artists such as Double Leopards, Sunroof!, Decaer Pinga and Vibracathedral Orchestra.

The group's first three albums were limited-run vinyl-only releases on now-defunct Portland label Imp Records. Since then, the group has had recordings released by many different labels from around the world. The band's latest release is a very limited 7" entitled "The Grave" on the Irish drone music label DotDotDot.

[edit] Discography

• Alchemy — Fuck to Gold (LP, Imp Records, 1995)
• Cross Pollinate (LP, Imp Records, 1996)
• Flat Fixed (double LP, Imp Records, 1998)
• Fig. 5 (CD, Road Cone, 2000 / re-issue CD, All Tomorrow's Parties, 2005)
• Wow (LP, Fisheye, 2000 / re-issue CD, All Tomorrow's Parties, 2003)
• The Magick Fire Music (double LP, Ecstatic Peace!, 2001 / re-issue CD, All Tomorrow's Parties, 2003)
• Liberation (CD, Road Cone, 2001 / re-issue CD, All Tomorrow's Parties, 2005)
• "Accent on Science" (on split 12" with Vibracathedral Orchestra, Textile, 2002)
• Change (LP/CD, Textile, 2002)
• Europe 2002 (our nakedness was our picket sign or how tom cant play guitar) (live double CD, Cast Exotic, 2003)
• From the earth to the Spheres Vol. 3 (split CD with My Cat Is An Alien, Very Friendly, 2005)
• Flags of the Sacred Harp (CD, All Tomorrow's Parties, 2005)
• The Grave (7", DotDotDot, 2006)