Jarboe

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The Living Jarboe

Years active	1984–present
Genres	Experimental Vocalist, Psych Folk, Rock, Modern Blues Singer
Labels	thelivingjarboe.com, Atavistic/Touch N Go, Revolver, A.T.
Members	Jarboe

Jarboe is a solo artist. Formerly she was a vocalist and keyboard player for Swans.

Jarboe's recorded and performed projects produce only her unique energy. She draws from a variety of charged sources, from her early exposure to snake-handling revivals in the Mississippi delta, parents who were in the FBI, her participation in a lounge act, experimental performance in gallery & live radio settings, her 14-year critically acclaimed recordings and collaboration with Swans doing worldwide concerts (clubs, theatres, festivals, live radio, TV). Her delivery can be at turns innocent, knowing, seductive, & vitriolic - contained in melodic as well as experimental compositions. In her extensive career as a performer and recording artist, Jarboe has proven herself to be one the world’s most explorative and skillful singers.

A primary objective for Jarboe is to close in on the gap in the audience/performer relationship via complete submission and vicarious experience through her performance. Through visceral vocals, her repertoire includes a variety of voices from the shy schoolgirl to seductress to demon. Jarboe's private agenda over the course of her life has been to fine tune endurance - physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through efforts in such disciplines as weight-lifting, kick boxing, mountainclimbing, 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 structure of persona.

Jarboe's musical explorations have led to select comparisons to other female musicians with regard for their success in penetrating the otherwise male-dominated "rock" subculture. Her work in and outside of the legendary Swans has received international critical attention. Jarboe is featured in Andrea Juno's groundbreaking book: Angry Women In Rock, and Adele Olivia Gladwell's women's studies/cultural theory: Catamania. She has been included in numerous publications and books such as The Wire, New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out, Tip, Spex, People, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, Terrorizer, Rolling Stone, Art Papers, Outburn...and so on.

The eclectic roster of Jarboe's musical collaborators includes: Michael Gira, Bill Laswell, Jim Thirlwell, Lustmord, PanSonic, Mark Spybey, Steven Severin, Chris Connelly, Alan Sparhawk, Neurosis, Edward Ka-Spel, William Faith, David J, David Torn, Paz Lenchantin, A Perfect Circle, Guapo, Byla, Cobalt, Bill Rieflin, Iva Davies, Blixa Bargeld, Kris Force, Nic Le Ban, Julia Kent, Monica Richards, Brian Castillo, and Lary Seven. She has worked with visual artists in film / photography including Richard Kern, / Cedric Victor-DeSouza, Beth B, Laura Levine, and Wim Van De Hulst and Percy Howard's Meridiem.

Considered a true independent of the 21st century and "internet pioneer" for music, Jarboe has been panelist on "Artists and the Internet" at the CMJ convention in NYC. Jarboe has released 12 solo albums in addition to working on 20+ Swans albums and 50+ collaborative projects with visual & sound artists all over the world. She has recorded in various countries, including Europe and the Middle East.

In addition to on-going live performances, Jarboe soon starts recording for the UK band, Jesu. Jarboe records her artist collective : "The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult" autumn 2006 with Nic Le Ban, Damon Young, Diana Obscura, Dorian Young, Paul Mercer, Chandler Rentz, Derek Bonner, Brian Castillo, Elizabeth Hummel, Drew West, and others.

[edit] Discography

JARBOE Thirteen Masks (1991), Red (1991), Beautiful People Ltd (1993), Warm Liquid Event (1993) , Sacrificial Cake (1995), Anhedoniac (1998), Disburden Disciple (2000), Dissected (2002), Process (2004) , Thirteen Masks – reissue (2004), Anhedoniac – reissue (2004), Beautiful People Ltd – reissue (2004), A Mystery of Faith (2004), Knight of Swords / The Beggar (2005), The Men Album ( 2005), The Conduit ( 2006),

COLLABORATIONS + Skin : Blood Women Roses , (1987) + Skin : Shame Humility Revenge, (1987) + Skin : Girl Come Out, (1987) + World of Skin , (1998) + World of Skin : Ten Songs from Another World, (1991) + Ignis Fatuus: Futility Goddess; Cache Toi/Encomium (1998) + Two Small Bodies : Soundtrack + Karma: Trance, (1998) + Backworld: Isles of the Blest; Anthems from the Pleasure Park, (1999) + C17H19NO3: 1692/2092 Soundtrack + PBK: Life-Sense Revoked , (1996) + H.I.A.: Thunder Perfect Mind (Gallery Installation, ICA, London) + Telecognac: Over , + The Body Lovers : Number One Of Three, (1998) + Pfrenz-C: Dopamine Quest, (1999) + Thread: In Sweet Sorrow/Abnormal Love, (2000) + Steven Severin: The Woman in the Dunes , (2000) + Neotropic : La Prochaine Fois , (2001) + Karma : God Is Mine , (2002) + Blackmouth , (2000) + Blackmouth: Blackness Bleeding remixes (2000) + A Perfect Circle (selected vocal embellishments on two tracks): Thirteenth Step (2003), + Neurosis + Jarboe (2003), + Meridiem : A Pleasant Fiction (2004) , + Kirlian Camera : Invisible Front. 2005 (2004) , + Larsen : Krzykognia DVD (2003), + Nic Le Ban + Joshua Fraser : The Conduit (2005), + Nic Le Ban : Knight Of Swords / The Beggar (2005) , + Cedric Victor : The End (2006), The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult (in progress 2006)...

COMPILATIONS Nine Underground , (1984) Dry Lungs I and II , ( 1985 , 1986) Insane Music for Insane People , (1986) Mighty Risen Plea, (1990) Serious Statements and Silly Symphonies, ( 1991) Shrine , (1993) Auron 1 : Musical Tomorrows, (1993) Alphabet City, (1993) A Far Cry, Featuring Women in Independent Music , (1995) Theme: Desire , (1995) We Hate You : A Small Tribute to Throbbing Gristle, (1997) The Carnival Within: A Tribute to Dead Can Dance, (1998) What Is Eternal, (1998) What's the Word, Vol. 1 , (1999) Pixies Fuckin' Die! , ( 1999) Summon Room , (1999) The Unaccompanied Voice, (2000) Zann , (2000) Apocalypse Always, (2002) VA Neurot Recordings 1, (2004) Tribute To Dead Can Dance : The Lotus Eaters , (2004) Electronic Thisturbance , (2004) , Rising Sun/Nuclear Free Future(2005), Durtro /Medecins Sans Frontieres (2005)

SWANS Greed, (1986) Holy Money, (1986) Time Is Money Bastard, (1986) A Screw, (1986) Public Castration is a Good Idea, (1986) Children Of God , (1987) Feel Good Now , (1987) New Mind , (1988) Love Will Tear Us Apart , (1988) The Burning World, (1989) Saved , (1989) Can't Find My Way Home , (1989) Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room , (1990) Body to Body, Job to Job , (1991) White Light from the Mouth Of Infinity, (1991) Love of Life, (1992) Real Love , (1992) Omniscience, (1992) Kill the Child, (1993) Celebrity Lifestyle , (1994) The Great Annihilator, (1995) Die Tür ist Zu, (1996) Soundtracks for the Blind , (1996) Swans are Dead , (1997) Various Failures, (1998) Children Of God / World Of Skin – reissue Feel Good Now- reissue

[edit] See also

Swans A band in which Jarboe played keyboards and sang in before her solo career
Neurosis & Jarboe A collaboration between Jarboe and experimental/industrial/hardcore band Neurosis.