Jackie-O Motherfucker: Valley Of Fire

jackie-o mfA 4 track spiritual journey through west-coast America using a range of sources from the traditional acoustic guitar and eerie and sometimes proclamatory vocal to electronics and programming. This CD really has a lot in it for 35 or something minutes, I could write quite a few long pages going into the ins and outs about how they create the different sounds and the contexts that they are used in but I’m not. I’m just going to say that this is a beautiful, sometimes chilled, sometimes frenetic record, that contains 2 tracks that conjure up outside images (“Sing” and “Valley of Fire”); track 3 (“The Tree” which is a Beach Boys cover recorded in someone’s living room in Leeds, which coincidently I didn’t care for too much, I thought the guitar was very hypnotic but the vocals let it down for me), and a 20 minute kind of free-form experimental journey that has 3 or 4 sections and takes us through natural, free-fall feelings, to tense jazz moments, minimalist pure electro and some sounds that made me believe I was still asleep and having the same dream I had last night. Very effective. I can’t wait for them to come to Berlin again and see how this amazing multi-faceted sound is recreated :: Jackie-O Motherfucker/Valley Of Fire - Textile/Cargo.