Jarboe

Jarboe
Background information
Birth name	Jarboe La Salle Devereaux
Also known as	The Living Jarboe
Origin	New Orleans
Genres	Experimental vocalist Psych folk Rock Modern blues
Instruments	Voice, Keyboard, Laptop
Years active	1984–present
Labels	Atavistic Touch and Go Records Revolver Alternative Tentacles Neurot Recordings The End Records Season Of Mist
Associated acts	Swans World of Skin
Website	thelivingjarboe.com

Jarboe (also known as the Living Jarboe) is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist who is a solo artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the New York City-based group Swans. With founder Michael Gira, the duo was the core of Swans until the group broke up in 1998. She continues to release numerous solo albums and collaborations, and composed the soundtrack of a horror game titled The Path.

with Swans

See Swans discography for the full discography

• Time is Money (Bastard). EP (1985, K.422)
• Greed (1986, K.422)
• A Screw EP (1986, K.422)
• Holy Money (1986, K.422)
• New Mind 12" EP (1987, Product Inc.)
• Children of God (1987, Caroline/Virgin/EMI Records)
• Love Will Tear Us Apart (1988, Product Inc.)
• The Burning World (1989, Uni/MCA Records)
• White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (1991, Young God Records)
• Love of Life (1992, Young God Records)
• The Great Annihilator (1994, Invisible, Young God Records)
• Soundtracks for the Blind (1996, Atavistic Records)
• Swans Are Dead (1998, Young God Records)

As Jarboe

• Walls Cassette (1984, Public Domain Records)
• Thirteen Masks (1991, SKY Records)
  • reissued in 2004
• Red CD single (1991, Jarboe Records 75066)
• Beautiful People Ltd with Lary Seven (1993, Sub Rosa Records 061)
  • reissued in 2004
• Warm Liquid Event CD single (1993, Sub Rosa Records 064)
• Sacrificial Cake (1995, Alternative Tentacles 167)
• Anhedoniac (1998, self-released )
  • reissued in 2004
• Disburden Disciple (2000)
• Dissected (2002, self-released )
• Process (2004, self-released )
• A Mystery of Faith: Unreleased Pieces - Swans + World of Skin (2004)
• The Men Album CD (2005, Atavistic Records 167)
• The Conduit CD (2005, Atavistic Records 175)
• Mahakali CD (2008, The End Records, Season Of Mist )
• Durga CD (2009, self-released )
• Alchemic CD (2010, Twilight Records )

Collaborations

• Skin - Blood, Women, Roses (1987)
• Skin - Shame, Humility, Revenge (1987)
• Skin - Girl Come Out (1987)
• World of Skin (1998)
• World of Skin - Ten Songs from Another World (1991)
• Ignis Fatuus: Futility Goddess; Cache Toi/Encomium (1998)
• Two Small Bodies : Soundtrack
• Karma: Trance (1998)
• Backworld: Isles of the Blest; Anthems from the Pleasure Park, (1999)
• C17H19NO3: 1692/2092 Soundtrack
• PBK - Life-Sense Revoked , (1996)
• H.I.A.: Thunder Perfect Mind (Gallery Installation, ICA, London)
• The Body Lovers : Number One Of Three, (1998)
• Pfrenz-C: Dopamine Quest, (1999)
• Jarboe/Telecognac - Over CD (2000, Crouton Records 007)
• Thread - In Sweet Sorrow/Abnormal Love (2000)
• Steven Severin - The Woman in the Dunes (2000)
• Neotropic : La Prochaine Fois , (2001)
• Karma : God Is Mine , (2002)
• Blackmouth , (2000)
• Blackmouth: Blackness Bleeding remixes (2000)
• A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003, Virgin Records)
  • (selected vocal embellishments on two tracks)
• Neurosis & Jarboe - Neurosis & Jarboe (2003, Neurot Recordings)
• Meridiem : A Pleasant Fiction (2004)
• Kirlian Camera : Invisible Front. 2005 (2004)
• Larsen : Krzykognia DVD (2003)
• Nic Le Ban + Joshua Fraser : The Conduit (2005)
• Nic Le Ban : Knight Of Swords / The Beggar (2005)
• Cedric Victor : The End (2006)
• The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult (in progress as of 2007)
• Byla & Jarboe : "Viscera" (2007, Translation Loss Records)
• Jesu : "Lifeline (Words/Vocals on "Storm Comin' On")" (2007)
• Puscifer : "V" Is for Vagina
  • (Background vocal samples on "Trekka")
• Dark Consort : with Cedric Victor (2008)
• J2 CD (2008, The End Records ) with Justin K. Broadrick

Compilation appearances

• Nine Underground (1984)
• Dry Lungs I and Dry Lungs II ( 1985 , 1986)
• Insane Music for Insane People (1986)
• Mighty Risen Plea, (1990)
• Serious Statements and Silly Symphonies ( 1991)
• Shrine (1993)
• Auron 1 : Musical Tomorrows (1993)
• Alphabet City (1993)
• A Far Cry, Featuring Women in Independent Music (1995)
• Theme: Desire (1995)
• We Hate You : A Small Tribute to Throbbing Gristle (1997)
• The Carnival Within: A Tribute to Dead Can Dance (1998)
• What Is Eternal (1998)
• What's the Word, Vol. 1 (1999)
• Pixies Fuckin' Die! (LifeLike Records, 1999)
  • Track 12 - Jarboe and The Trepaners - "Tame"
• Summon Room (1999)
• The Unaccompanied Voice (2000)
• Zann (2000)
• Apocalypse Always (2002)
• VA Neurot Recordings 1, (2004)
• Tribute to Dead Can Dance : The Lotus Eaters (2004)
• Electronic Thisturbance (2004)
• Rising Sun/Nuclear Free Future(2005)
• Durtro /Medecins Sans Frontieres (2005)

Guest appearances

• pFrenz-C – Dopamine Quest (1999)
• The Agony Scene - Prey -Music Video (2005)
• Rivulets / Marc Gartman - Rivulets / Marc Gartman (2006)
• Monica Richards - Infrawarrior (2006)
• Venture Bros - Guess Who's Coming To State Dinner? (2006) (as the voice of a maid in the White House)
• Cobalt - Eater of Birds (2007)
• Lustmord - Rising (2007)
• Guapo - Elixir (2008)
• Lives of Ilya Audiobook - Mythos Media (2008)
• Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor (2009)
• Cobalt - Gin (2009)
• The Austrasian Goat - Stains of Resignation (2010)

External links

• Jarboe's official site
• Interview with Jarboe
• Exhibition featuring Jarboe and Nic Le Ban
• Discography
• Jarboe interview (march 1996) for QRD
• Jarboe interview (september 1999) for QRD
• Website of The Path, a horror game with soundtrack by Jarboe
• Jarboe Interview (Part 1) on RocknRollDating.com
• Jarboe Interview (Part 2) on RocknRollDating.com