Jackie-O Motherfucker - Young Wife - Mother Plastic & Big Nurse March 16, 2006

This improvisational collective employ strings, horns, percussion, vibes and electronic loops to create passages of hypnotic beauty that burst into ecstatic shards of sound. Based in Portland, bandleader Tom Greenwood and a core group pick up and drop members as they tour, which helps keep their music evolving. The distinctive genius of the compositions?an avant-garde take on the folk music of the American South?has made JOMF among the more indelible artists in the underground-noise movement. Their 2005 CD, Flags of the Sacred Harp, draws on a 19th century shape-note hymnal?music meant to be created by a community of voices?as the launching point for its eerily beautiful, uneasy creations. Primitive Baptist Church ?MICHAEL McCALL