Volume 1: Fig. 5 & Liberation

A special edition Jackie-O Motherfucker release of both Liberation and Fig. 5 reissues together in packaging especially designed by Alex Hornsby. Fig. 5 is slow and plodding like time itself. This work, again, simply has no precedents. Or rather, its precedents lie in the dusty anonymities of American musical history, instead of the proud and touted monuments of America's cultural past. Listen to it once if you can. It is our secret national anthem. Following the critical success of their Road Cone debut Fig. 5 in 2000, Jackie-O Motherfucker released their seventh album, Liberation, in 2001. This CD showcases the group's most experimental free-form side. The 12 musicians involved in these recordings stomp over any distinctions between rock, jazz, folk, or any other musical idiom for that matter. They jam. As hodgepodge, confused, and eclectic their blend may seem, they master it and make it exciting.