JUAREZ

Bio:

..   Solo project of jess pinney.

Originally from Melbourne, Australia. Performing synth-Ondes Martenot fuckery and a'cappella. Soon to include grunge-auto-harp-blood.

Has performed with Natasha Anderson, Absoluten Calfeutrail, Marco Fusinato, Joe Talia, Ned Collette, performed in La Monte Young's Arabic Numerals, performed as part of the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music, The Make it Up Club 10th Anniversary festival, the international noise conference in london (w/girl mountain) and the Sunshine and Grease opening festival.

Has played shows with; Marcus Shcmickler, CTV and Daniel Menche, Valerio Tricoli, Thembi Soddell, Anthony Pateras, Robin Fox, Francis Plagne, James Rushford, Double Mario, Neil Sweeney, girl mountain, clyde, laundry room squelchers, blood, cementimental, blue sabbath black fiji and nathan whipple.

The debut, 'Revontulet', is out now through Sabbatical.



Contact me if you would like one and you're in the UK.
If you're in Australia, contact Sabbatical.

'Juarez [...] is a dream and a nightmare, a nether zone where everything is recognizable but at the same time horribly off. It is nasty, bloody, filthy. I felt there was something dark at its core - the poverty, the hopelessness, the silent acceptance of a city, a life, that should be utterly unlivable but somehow isn't. A low-level unrest settles on every curb and around the spindly trunk of every tree choked by car exhaust and drowned in the urine of thousands of men. The disquiet was pervasive and thick, a violent rumbling under the surface of everyday life, a tremor that the women tried to ignore as they went home at the end of their workday, hurrying past the knots of idle men who stood on corners and sucked their teeth' - 'Spiral Jetta' - Erin Hogan.

'You are tasting something we seldom talk about: horror slapping our systems awake and making us feel more alive than the gardens we cultivate with love during the better hours. Juarez is a depressing place and Juarez makes us feel more alive.... I believe that Juarez is one of the most exciting places in the world. I am struck by the electricity that snaps through the air in a city saturated with grief.' - Charles Bowden.

'...if expiration sounds of slavering lust-noise tempered by the slightest of light's your thing then Get. Thee. Hence. Nightmarish and riven with sexual weirdness, Jess Pinney sounds like PJ Harvey would after 24 years locked in Fritzl's basement - i.e. more convincing, with more shrieks, and far better.' - Threethousand.com.au

'It’s music that doesn’t want to be friends with you [...]abrupt pre crescendo cuts emphasises the sound art techniques at play here, yet there is also an improvised feel to many of the pieces and a dark ambient electroacoustic approach that focusses on dark synthetic rumbles, drones and textures.' - Cyclic Defrost

good times. sort of.

Member Since:

November 02, 2007

Influences:

yr face
ciudad juarez
home

Record Label:

unsigned