Jackie-O Motherfucker

by Stacia Proefrock
Portland, Oregon-based improvisational weirdos Jackie-O Motherfucker filtered numerous musical genres (avant-garde, electronic music, folk, country, world music, spirituals, etc.) through their noisy, psychedelic scrape and grind. Formed by core members Tom Greenwood and Jef Brown, who both contribute to the band on a variety of instruments, Jackie-O Motherfucker also relies on the contributions of sax players John Flaming and Nester, drummer Jesse Carrot, guitarist Honey Owens and multi-instrumentalist Andy Cvar. The band's output in the beginning was largely executed by the tiny, Portland based, Imp Records, who issued three vinyl-only releases: S/T, Cross Pollinate and Flat Fixed (which was a double-lp). However, the turn of the century saw them gather some attention from well-respected corners of the indie world. Their first album, Fig. 5, was issued by Road Cone in the first months of 2000, with plans for a double lp being cooked up at the same time by Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label.