Solo LP:
>The Remaining Functionality of Abandoned States<
Collaboration with Martijn Comes:
>Moon Ra<
Newest Holzkopf (noise beat project):
>Resistant to Pleasure<
New Chrome Mennonites (collaboration with Parker Thiessen [Pseudo-Labs]):
>The Milking Barn<
Organs Without Bodies (collaboration with John Brennan [Earthball]):
>EP<
Assault Charge (collaboration with Eamon McGrath):
Self-Titled Album
BANDCAMP - YOUTUBE - INSTAGRAM
After almost 30 years of toiling and touring under the name “Holzkopf”, Jacob Audrey Taves' output became the soundtrack to a dedicatedly DIY music life. Self-organized tours, no agency, piles of self-released works, collaborations with countless small labels, free parties, squat shows, blasted audio fragments in the glow of oil drum fires under bridges in Europe, North America and Japan. Once an obsessive collector of tapes found in thrift stores, dumpsters, and on the street, Taves spent many years on the move with a backpack full of cassette players, pawn shop drum machines, and low end samplers cutting and scratching magnetic tape with breakbeats and noise blasts, telling stories of desperation, neglect, and trauma through a blown out throat: their life off the road spent working for peanuts in homeless shelters and street outreach. They destroyed dance floors and spewed out concept performances involving milk crates full of tapes and 4-track recorders.
Lo-fi has since been gentrified and with almost all that old gear becoming hot commodities on eBay, Taves' recent work, while recording under their own legal name, is focused on doing a lot with what is readily accessible. Aging laptops and midi-controllers are transformed into no-input mixers while stuttering, high speed sound collages are interrupted by static and glitched crash outs. This work is about speed with lull moments of tranquility that get swallowed to feed the ever mutating noise beast. It's never been about gear fetish, it's been about immediacy and accessibility and continues to be so. Maybe this current output is for a dance floor if the dancers don't have bones, but it's definitely physical.
Taves' adventures have led to sharing stages with notable figures like Merzbow, John Oswald, People Like Us, Keiji Haino, Afrorack, the Rita, Robert Henke, Venetian Snares, DJ Olive, Andy Moor (the Ex), William Hooker, Mark Hosler (Negativland) and others. They've sometimes graced festivals and series such as The Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Fake Jazz, Wavelength, and Montreal's Nuit Blanche and Fetish Weekend in Canada, Hamsylet Festival in Ukraine, Body Machine Body in Estonia, ZNFI in Slovenia, 4D Festival in Japan, Yaga Gathering in Lithuania, Springtij and SOTU in the Netherlands, and Blue Monday in Mexico City. Taves has collaborated with John Brennan (Earthball), Parker Thiessen (Pseudo Labs), Eamon McGrath, Martijn Comes, and Freida Abtan (Nurse With Wound). Taves has been an artist in residence at Les Pixels Transverseux in Sevres, France, Hammock in Vancouver, Canada, and at PAVED Art and New Media in Saskatoon, Canada. Taves is curator for Interior Network and the host of Off-World on CJSR 88.5FM in Edmonton, Canada.
>a memory full of endless trains, buses, planes, car pools, long walks through cold and empty cities in the dead of night, dodging gang activity and pepper spray in a 24 hour dumpling spot, lipping off and running from neo-nazi scumbags, splitting back pain from doing it all with that heavy bag of pointy edged instruments, crushed glass stuck in metal floor grates, Roma camps in the mountains and the edges of cities providing advice and directions, performing while a team with shovels redirects rain water away from electrical power supplies because the concert is happening in the dirt, watching fentanyl hit home in Canada and then creep to Europe forever changing the vibe in every park and alley and making parties life threatening for kids trying to figure out who they are, a dead man outside a venue doorway, open flame, car battery generators, losing shoes, liberating grapes from Swiss vineyards for breakfast, navigating foreign lands with a notebook full of scribbled maps and addresses and phone numbers, riding a microbus from small town to small town sitting beside a woman and her chicken, the smell of smoke and fire soaked into the walls of burned buildings<
CONTACT: jacobaudreytaves@gmail.com
VIDEOS:
2024 - Live at Susikirtimai XXX, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 - Live at Metaxenakis, Vancouver, Canada
2022 - Live at Red Gate, Vancouver, Canada
2022 - Organs Without Bodies - Rooms and Doors , Music Video
2022 - Organs Without Bodies - Sour Twist, Music Video
2021 - Live at Red Gate, Vancouver, Canada
2021 - 10 000 Years of Cosplay, Music Video
2021 - Holzkopf - Unbreathable Atmosphere, Music Video
2019 - Holzkopf - Live at Beats from the Vault, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 - Holzkopf - Live at Primal Uproar III, Hamburg, Germany
2011 - Holzkopf - Live at Constellation Beta, Vilnius, Lithuania
