J E F F M C L E O D . N E T

My ridiculous musical life has gone from piano to guitar to cheesy teenage cover bands to punk to hardcore to metal to prog to noise to experimentalism to playing the Chapman Stick . . . the winding thread connecting them all being a deep love of improvisation . . .

I'm a multi-instrumentalist and goofy sort of musical experimentalist. I always adhere to DIY ethic, no matter what form of music I'm focusing my attention on. On a more blah-blah level, I've recorded albums with reluctant indie guru Steve Albini, played live with Wisconsin's electronic music pioneers Oneiroid Psychosis, sang, played and toured with Southern noise rockers bert for years ("reunion" show June 6 in Montgomery with all new material!), collaborated with countless other artists all over the U.S. and founded The Subversive Workshop Newsletter magazine/home recording label and the Alabama Improv Co-op. All this just barely scratches the surface. I get tired of trying to keep up with it all.

Current projects include making noise with junkists/tribalists Liquid Brick (new recording out this year), Autosymptomatic (intuitive electronic improvisation), Doctor Midnight (completed an album in 28 days for rpmchallenge.com) and extreme improvisation with my friends in Zepubicle and Skryxl (new release pending!). See below for links to the new Zepubicle CD on Soltponticello (Scientists Levitate Small Animals) and my latest solo guitar CD on WMRecordings.com (At The End Of The Path).

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