Jad Fair
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Jad Fair is the singer and guitarist of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.
Both Jad and his brother David rejected typical notions of tuning and stringing guitars, believing that they could only create truly original music by inventing their own ways of playing. Jad has been playing guitar for over thirty years, but cannot name a single chord.
Jad Fair is also a graphical artist with a specialisation on papercutting, which are similar to his music mainly based on primitivism.
[edit] Collaborations
He has worked with numerous alternative and outside musicians including:
- 1988: Kramer, releasing Roll Out The Barrel
- 1989: Daniel Johnston, releasing It's Spooky
- 1995-200? Jason Willett, released over 13 full length albums so far
- 1996: Phono-Comb, releasing Monsters, Lullabies, and the Occasional Flying Saucer
- 1998: Yo La Tengo, releasing Strange But True, an album based on the unusual stories taken from the Strange but True column of newspapers
- 1999: Kramer, releasing The Sound of Music
- 2002: Teenage Fanclub, releasing Words Of Wisdom And Hope
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