Cargo Records

The Blood Of Life + Ballads Of The Revolution

Last year, JOMF signed to the influential UK label FIRE RECORDS, who issued this incredible live recording.

Recorded live in the studios of VPRO Radio in Amsterdam last year, ‘THE BLOOD OF LIFE’ contains two completely new versions of JOMF classics, ‘HEY! MR. SKY’, and ‘THE GRAVE’, as well as a reworking of last year’s ‘VALLEY OF FIRE’, all produced in a very minimal but powerful style. In addition, the record also features a traditional ballad ‘THE LOST JIMMY WALEN’, and a brand new track, ‘THE BLOOD OF LIFE’, which is a ground breaking piece of new music for the band and marks a new direction for them.

BALLADS OF THE REVOLUTION is the bands 10th studio record, and the culmination of 15 years spent defining their unique take on american music.
The record begins with an arrangement of a traditional ballad, -nightingale features Greenwoods vocals and guitar with the lush, open accompaniment of Bob Jones' double bass and the pedal steel guitar of Lewi Longmire.

Dark Falcon is an improvisation and re-mix of a song written and recorded by the LUCKY DRAGONS. Built on samples and loops of the original recording including vocals by Honey Owens, appropriated from the liner notes of a record by the mamas and papas. Side one closes with JOMF original, skylight, which has been a part of the bands live set for a few years, and has been been beautifully rendered in the studio.
Side two begins with a brand new song, written and sung by Greenwood and Owens, -the corner begins with the pulsing bass of a roland keyboard, accompanied by turntable manipulations and the sparse, sting of Owens guitar, its dark minimalism, a new classic moment for the band.