Jarboe (full name: Jarboe La Salle Devereaux – also known as The Living Ja… Read Full Bio ↴Jarboe (full name: Jarboe La Salle Devereaux – also known as The Living Jarboe) is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist from New Orleans active since 1984. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as a member of New York City based group Swans. With founder Michael Gira, the duo was the core of the group until its disbandment in 1998.
She continues to release numerous solo albums and collaborations and has composed the soundtrack for a horror game entitled The Path.
Coming to rock and experimental music from a complex, fascinating background (both her parents were FBI agents; her upbringing in the South included such elements of extreme American religious faith as snake-handling ceremonies; and before her direct involvement in music she participated in "unorthodox sex work," to use her own words, in various U.S. cities), Jarboe, who has always preferred to be known by her sole name, has long been known as one of the fiercest spirits in modern music. She is an intelligent and aggressive artist possessed of striking musical skill who has rejected the music industry's all-too-easy stereotyping and exploitation to create shockingly powerful visions. Helping strongly in this is her one-of-a-kind vocal talent, ranging from emotive blues/gospel tones to wild shrieking, matching excellently with her wide-ranging preference in musical styles. Joining the band Swans two years after it came into being, Jarboe soon became the co-leader of the band with founder Michael Gira; together the pair released some of the most striking, musically extreme recordings of recent years, both as Swans and as the side project band Skin. Jarboe's solo career began in earnest in 1992 with the release of Thirteen Masks, followed a couple of years later by a collaborative effort released under the name Beautiful People with Larry Seven, who also worked on Thirteen Masks and various Swans tracks before that time. The next official release was 1995's Sacrificial Cake, described as a "Swans Related Product," and released in concert with Gira's own solo debut, Drainland. After this, Swans took precedence as she and Gira finished the group's farewell albums and tours; her first post-Swans release, Anhedoniac, appeared in 1998. Shortly thereafter she made a trip to Israel for artistic inspiration for a planned follow-up, Disburdeen Disciple. However, she contracted an illness while visiting there, leading to hospitalization on return to America. A sampler for Disciple has appeared as a teaser, but the main album itself was not completed or ready for release. A collaboration with Telecognac, titled Over, appeared in 2000.
http://www.thelivingjarboe.com
She continues to release numerous solo albums and collaborations and has composed the soundtrack for a horror game entitled The Path.
Coming to rock and experimental music from a complex, fascinating background (both her parents were FBI agents; her upbringing in the South included such elements of extreme American religious faith as snake-handling ceremonies; and before her direct involvement in music she participated in "unorthodox sex work," to use her own words, in various U.S. cities), Jarboe, who has always preferred to be known by her sole name, has long been known as one of the fiercest spirits in modern music. She is an intelligent and aggressive artist possessed of striking musical skill who has rejected the music industry's all-too-easy stereotyping and exploitation to create shockingly powerful visions. Helping strongly in this is her one-of-a-kind vocal talent, ranging from emotive blues/gospel tones to wild shrieking, matching excellently with her wide-ranging preference in musical styles. Joining the band Swans two years after it came into being, Jarboe soon became the co-leader of the band with founder Michael Gira; together the pair released some of the most striking, musically extreme recordings of recent years, both as Swans and as the side project band Skin. Jarboe's solo career began in earnest in 1992 with the release of Thirteen Masks, followed a couple of years later by a collaborative effort released under the name Beautiful People with Larry Seven, who also worked on Thirteen Masks and various Swans tracks before that time. The next official release was 1995's Sacrificial Cake, described as a "Swans Related Product," and released in concert with Gira's own solo debut, Drainland. After this, Swans took precedence as she and Gira finished the group's farewell albums and tours; her first post-Swans release, Anhedoniac, appeared in 1998. Shortly thereafter she made a trip to Israel for artistic inspiration for a planned follow-up, Disburdeen Disciple. However, she contracted an illness while visiting there, leading to hospitalization on return to America. A sampler for Disciple has appeared as a teaser, but the main album itself was not completed or ready for release. A collaboration with Telecognac, titled Over, appeared in 2000.
http://www.thelivingjarboe.com
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Jarboe Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Jarboe:
01. Lavender Girl There's patchouli, spanish blossom, frankincense, and rose …
02 Ode To V Obey the strange-haired woman with sad singing lips The chi…
10 Tragic Seed When you touch yourself again through me Love is the roamin…
A Man of Hate Take pity please Lord Misery How shiny your throne as you…
A woman's dreams held myself... i fall out of myself. let it go. a memory of…
Act III As your hands tightened around your throat I knew that this…
Angel David I prayed on bended knees through tears And an angel was…
Anhedoniac My hair is tangled on the tree It floats and twists…
Blackmail Close your eyes Close your eyes Saw the word I want to hear …
Blood Promise When silence falls And light remains And time is born Ben…
Bound Drug-free Smoke-free Booze-free Love-bound Debt-free Diseas…
Burnt I'll burn... { BURNT }…
Circles in Red Dirt Now Michel was a man He rode his horse high A knife…
Cries You Can Hear Them Out There They're Gonna Follow You Down …
Deflowered If you wanna be the star Just get the big guitar A…
Empty Mouth I am She whom the winds fear I am She who…
Fate Trance Hold me Hold me Your heartbeat is my heart You look at…
Feral I am wild in mourning In a freezing cell In a hollow…
Forever The malignancy grows with fibrous insistence As the body wa…
Found I'm running I'm empty I'm consumed You're there You're in me…
Freedom Freedom, my freedom Freedom, get off my back Freedom, freedo…
God Goddess Goooooooooooooooooooooood Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess Go…
Gun I got a gun I got a gun I got a house You…
Holy Money Move around Holy money, holy holy Shake it, shake it …
Honey You can't kiss me You can't lick me You can't kick me You…
Hypo Girl Can I steal your mind? And can I crawl down inside? And…
I I got a gun I got a gun I got a house You…
I Crawled You're My Father I Obey You I Want You To Be My…
I Got a Gun I got a gun I got a gun I got a house You…
i put a spell on you I put a spell on you because you're mine You better…
I'm a Killer How'm i supposed to do that I never be able to…
Illusory And I see true Illusory you Do I see true Authenticity in yo…
In an Open Sea The bridge is long and narrow The hills are burned by…
In My Garden In my garden Things grow in my garden Things will grow Th…
Kiss of Life We are gathered tonight to say goodbye to a life Cherish…
Lavender Girl There's patchouli, spanish blossom, frankincense, and rose …
Listen Death-like in her pallor Silver spiders in the parlor gliste…
Miracle of Love She holds a key to the room down there And I,…
Mississippi Saw all them colors in the black room. Heard all 'em…
Mother Father Mother/Father Hey hey, Now mother father Hey hey Now my bloo…
My Buried Child My Frozen Empty Violent Mind Caressed The Hidden Hair That S…
Not Logical Open your mind Sensational, metaphysical, insatiable, astro…
Not Noah's Ark Every species of the earth squeezed together alive and writh…
Ode To V Obey the strange-haired woman with sad singing lips The chi…
Of Ancient Memory As far as the eye can see heat is rising…
Penance Lay your head upon my breast Hear the heart I surrender to…
Please Remember Me You penetrate my eyes And you steal my memory And each sen…
Rage And the red against black is the fulfillment of a…
Reason to live Out of love, there's nobody around, all I hear is…
Red red is the color, there's no other, red velvet tap…
Sacred Disciple Wannabe You're burnin' me - you're burnin' me You're a sacred disci…
Saved Now I’ve got nothing to look at I’ve got no…
Shimmer Come morocco night The sand is as white As the…
Shotgun Road Here is the bleeding heart Remember she once declared Now sh…
Sinner And what do I do With the gift you present to…
Spiral Staircase The wind blows after dark And then goes my heart I never…
St. John John, deliver me Dear John, release in me Oh John, when I…
Still A Child The day I was born, your shadow fell across my…
Subtraction Do you know who you belong with Do you know who…
Surgical Saviour I open you I make you feel Through me you know Desires are…
The Believers the believers dance in front the altar the believers strip …
The Body Lover At last it's coming up, the sun The body snatcher's…
The Cage ...I want to fuck your soul...…
The Child's Right Save the cold water falling Across this child’s legs His…
The Lonely Voyeur Deceptive eyes azure And black as his heart, they do lie…
The Never Deserting Shadow Give me your promise baby tell me true Give me your…
This is life I won¹t go there. The risk is too great. I owe myself…
To Forget I'm with you to forget my loneliness I love you to…
Tragic Seed When you touch yourself again through me Love is the roaming…
Transmogrification In the interim of temporary defeat... I am not in flame…
Troll After I bed with thee Your soul shall no longer be Deep…
Troll Lullaby Don't let the troll into your bed He'll take your soul…
Under Will "I'm looking forward to your being my wife." "It's actually…
Universal Emptiness And she sits there by the wall Making holes where…
unreal When the cool light flows through 10 million minds Our exper…
Volcano Your lipstick smear across your face, Now toss your hair in…
We Are the Prophecy I am talking to you And you know that Everything I have I…
Wooden Idols She could tell you right now She could hold you near She…
You I put a spell on you because you're mine You better…
Yum Yab I saw a white finger on a barbed wire fence. I…
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