JARBOE
Jarboe‘s current performance is melodic vocals with solo acoustic guitar in raw rock based songs. The songs performed are from the 2013 self-released DREAMS cd, as well as songs from the INDEMNITY series – to be released on vinyl September 2013 by Burning World Records (Netherlands). An intense two month tour of Australia, New Zealand and Europe commences November 2013.
The 2013 set features P. Emerson Williams on acoustic guitar and vocals.
Jarboe draws from a variety of charged sources: growing up in the Mississippi delta, NewOrleans street life and Mardi Gras, parents in the FBI, experimental performance, living in NYC’s east village during the post no-wave scene, studies in literature and theatre, a history of critically acclaimed recordings and collaboration in Swans and worldwide concerts (clubs, theaters, art galleries, cathedrals, festivals, live radio, TV).
Her voice and music can be at turns innocent, knowing, seductive, & vitriolic – in melodic as well as experimental compositions. A primary objective for Jarboe is to close in on the gap in the audience/performer relationship. Jarboe’s agenda over the course of her life has been to fine tune endurance – physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through efforts in both past and present disciplines which have included weight-lifting, kick boxing, mountain climbing, running, role-playing, studies in meditation and Buddhism and her intense work with Swans, she has journeyed her body towards exhaustion specifically with the intent of rebuilding / reinventing identity and exploring the elemental structures of persona.
Jarboe’s musical explorations have been noted for penetrating the male-dominated rock subculture with work in and outside of the legendary Swans receiving international critical attention.
Highlights from Jarboe’s career include :
– Work In Progress’ Arts Program grants for rock theatre performances in Chicago, Atlanta, and New York City of which a concert film was created.
– Performance at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal
– Performance Art at PS122 in NYC
– Europe/US Tour with the Italian avant-garde group, Larsen
– East Coast shows with Amber Asylum
– US Tour, London show, and album with Neurosis
– Performances in the Baltic region in cathedrals in Vilnius and Gdansk
– Concert tour on the West Coast with Blixa Bargeld
– Concerts for SXSW 2008, Bumbershoot Festival 2006, CMJ 2000
– Performance for Women In Music conference 2008 at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
– European tours and concerts in Moscow, Budapest, Seville, Oslo, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Geneva, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Berlin, Paris, Prague, London, and many other regions
– Performances at festivals : Reading, Pukkelpop, Roskilde, Hellfest, Inferno, SuperSonic, Wave Gotik Treffen, Roadburn, Stella Natura
– Soundtrack and voices for the games : The Path (award winning best game composition with Kris Force at Bilbao, Spain international game awards) and Fatale (voice of Salome). Voice of Lady Macbeth in the Black Sun Drum Korps production of Macbeth for Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, voice for television character for Adult Swim network, Venture Bros…
The extensive eclectic roster of Jarboe’s collaborators includes: Michael Gira, Phil Tan, Bill Laswell, John Fryer, Jim Thirlwell, Kris Force, Lustmord, PanSonic, Merzbow, Mark b, Steven Severin, Chris Connelly, Alan Sparhawk, Neurosis, Edward KaSpel, William Faith, Monica Richards, David J, David Torn, Bill Rieflin, Iva Davies, Blixa Bargeld, Julia Kent, Zoe Keating, Anni Hogan, Meredith Yayanos, A Perfect Circle, Colin Marston, Cobalt, Cattle Decapitation, Byla, Justin K. Broadrick, Jesu, Peter Valsamis, Josh Graham, Philip, Anselmo, Attila Csihar, Esoteric, Vampillia, and many more …
Visual artists in film/photography/design including : Richard Kern, Marilyn Chen, Cedric Victor, Beth B, Laura Levine, Wim Van De Hulst, Rochelle Heagh Phister, Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, Mick Rock, Cameron Crowe.
Jarboe is featured and / or referenced in several books (including Catamania by Adele Olivia Gladwell, Angry Women In Rock by Andrea Juno, Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell)…
Considered a true independent, and a featured panelist on Artists and the Internet at the CMJ convention in NYC, Jarboe has released 27 solo albums (and counting) in addition to working on 21+ Swans albums and 63+ collaborative projects with visual & sound artists all over the world and recorded albums in various countries, including England, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, and the Middle East.
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