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Jowe Head - Screeches, Scribbles, and Scrawls

by Jowe Head

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LP comes with 60+ pages of never before seen illustrated lyrics, artwork, and writings. Includes liner notes by Gaye Black of The Adverts.

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1.	Big Fish 02:46	buy track
2.	Louise Bourgeois 03:05 video	buy track
3.	Ration Book Tango 04:20	buy track
4.	Scarab 01:53	buy track
5.	Infernal Contraption 03:35	buy track
6.	Lament For The Departed 01:21	buy track
7.	The Now 01:05	buy track
8.	Rotten Wood 03:47	buy track
9.	Archane and Athena 04:18 video	buy track
10.	The Good Book 01:00	buy track
11.	Felt and Fat 04:49	buy track
12.	Blade O' Tron 01:13	buy track
13.	Aviator's Lullabye 03:00	buy track

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Screeches, Scribbles, and Scrawls is a new multi-media project by British artist Jowe Head. Fundamental to the London art rock scene, Jowe has a dizzying discography as bandleader of The Palookas, The Househunters, Angel Racing Food, Infernal Contraption, Eleventh Hour Adventists, and Jowe Head and the Demi-Monde, among others. His breakout in the music scene came in the early 1970s when he, and close friends Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks, formed Swell Maps, a pivotal group that would come to influence the sound and scene immeasurably. In the eighties, Jowe would begin a decade-long stint with the historic post-punk band Television Personalities. All the while, Jowe has been feverishly prolific as a visual artist, cartoonist, and writer, as this new collection exemplifies. The new release includes contributions from the likes of Catherine Gerbrands, Miss Roberts, and Cos Chapman.

From the opening moments of the 13-track LP, Jowe’s Screeches bellow in raspy glory, telling a tale of maritime adventure, with characteristic existential musings throughout on “Big Fish.” From there, chaos, mystery, and introspective emotion unfold to paint a picture of an artist who has lived a storied life on the cutting edge of underground culture.

Gaye Black’s liner notes for Screeches, Scribbles, and Scrawls illustrate Jowe’s mind-boggling creativity, describing a visit to his studio space, which appears bursting at the seams with tapes, instruments, drawings, paintings, and inventions. Conceiving of Jowe Head not only as a musician, artist, writer, and general purveyor of culture, but as an inventor, seems fitting for this particular record and accompanying 50+ page book of drawings and words. He invents his own world of sound with droning hand-made instruments, puzzling melodic experiments, unpredictable rhythmic motifs, while maintaining his distinct rock n roll attitude and pop music vocabulary. He invents a world of characters, creatures, and situations all his own in the stories of his songs, imagined in form with the illustrated lyrics featured in the book. This comprehensive release covers a remarkably expansive map of the world that Jowe Head has to offer.

Screeches, Scribbles, and Scrawls is presented by ORG Music, Steady Hand Records, and Nick Flessa.

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released August 2, 2022

Produced and performed by Jowe Head, except:
Cos Chapman: guitar on "Louise Bourgeois"
Miss Roberts: vocal on "Archane and Athena"
Catherine Gerbrands: vocal and bowed saw on "Louise Bourgeois"

Mastered by Kern Haug

A&R by Ross Chait and Nick Flessa
Book layout by Chloe Ginnegar and Nick Flessa

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Steady Hand Records is a label showcasing noise, experimental and freeform music. Founded by Ross Wallace Chait in Los Angeles, 2016.
steadyhandrecords@gmail.com

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