| Indian Jewelry makes the kind of "Wild Rumpus" | | | | and Monsanto. Forget about the nexus between |
| sounds that the castaway kids do around their | | | | the arms trade, petroleum concerns, the Christian |
| bonfire in "The Lord of the Flies". It's equal parts | | | | right, and the apartheid state of Israel . Get over |
| liberating and dangerous. Their new CD, "Invasive | | | | genetically modified food, the IMF/WTO, latterday |
| Exotics" (Monitor Records) is a strange and | | | | red-baiters, homophobes, racists, armchair |
| hypnotic ride through the subconscious that | | | | razorbacks, and theo-nationalists worldwide. Let's |
| doesn't only aim at the head, but shakes your | | | | just say that evil is emanating from stupid people |
| body as well. This mutant hybrid of ethno-voodoo, | | | | and smart people alike.9. What's the wildest thing |
| industrial death disco is just the right tonic for | | | | you've ever had go down at a gig? We are calm |
| these gray times. It's a multi-headed and colorful | | | | people, and our music is calmative to the point of |
| mix that after repeated listens reveals a literate | | | | being serene. However, we once played a set in a |
| and political undertone. Indian jewelry is letting | | | | gallery in Houston while it was on fire and also in |
| their freak flag fly and believe me folks, we're all | | | | the smoke while the same fire was being |
| the better for it! I recently shot a few questions | | | | extinguished. People have regularly come to us |
| their way via email and this is what they had to | | | | after shows with bloody hands, blackened eyes, |
| say.1. Is Indian Jewelry's music more solar or | | | | bruised faces, and general damage. People have |
| lunar? How so?Erika says solar. I say lunar, but | | | | tried to decapitate us by throwing cymbals at our |
| we try in our way to get along. 2. Are you | | | | necks during shows in New York City and Athens |
| casting spells with this music? If so, what are | | | | Ohio (we don't exist, ergo we don't die.) A |
| they directed at? If not, why? While at various | | | | Dominican street gang forced us to play a show |
| times various sorts of people have accused us of | | | | in Brooklyn by holding our friends in the band |
| spellcasting and mesmerism in a lame and | | | | Inoculist at knifepoint. A race riot broke out |
| transparent attempt to absolve themselves of | | | | between warring fraternities outside a Halloween |
| responsibility for their own bad behavior the fact | | | | show in Kent Ohio. San Diego is nuts. Houston is |
| is that this is not so. We once tried casting a spell | | | | nuts. Knoxville people can party. Ohio is out of |
| with subliminal messages and calculated | | | | hand.10. What are the greatest books of all |
| frequencies but it backfired.3. What are your | | | | time?We have something of a bias toward |
| favorite sounds? We are partial to panting dogs, | | | | occidental Nineteenth and Twentieth Century |
| low frequencies, heartbeats, and fast-moving | | | | literature. Nonetheless, here is a very loose start: |
| trains. We're also amenable to the music made by | | | | The brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky, |
| friends of ours such as jana hunter, the wiggins, | | | | the recognitions by william gaddis, war and peace |
| rua minx, leslie keffer, a pink cloud, the creeping | | | | by leo tolstoy, the delicate prey by paul bowles, |
| nobodies, genders, the electric set, psychic ills, | | | | journey to the end of the night by louis ferdinand |
| wicked poseur, ariel pink, eystek, tusco terror, | | | | celine, mother courage and her children by bertolt |
| clipd beaks, as well as a number of others.4. What | | | | brecht, 60 stories by donald barthelme, satires by |
| is the sexiest sound? The human voice, | | | | juvenal, cronopios and famas by julio cortazar, |
| whispering to ear-- not asthmatic.5. What is the | | | | labyrinths by jorge luis borges, catch 22 by |
| one instrument you couldn't do Indian Jewelry | | | | joseph heller, birds of america by lorrie moore, |
| without? An atlas.6. Give me three reasons to be | | | | united states by gore vidal, moby dick by herman |
| cheerful. Longmont Potion Castle, Sacha Baron | | | | melville, the collected stories of flannery o'connor, |
| Cohen, Holy Mountain7. Any thoughts on Pluto | | | | antipoems by nicanor parra, twilight of the idols by |
| recently being "de-planeted"? See, science don't | | | | friedrich nietzsche, collected poetry of ts eliot, |
| know.8. Where is evil emanating from these | | | | jabberwocky by lewis carroll, collected poetry of |
| days?Its hard to be glib about this one, but let's | | | | pablo neruda, cathedral by raymond carver, |
| try anyway. Let's ignore US foreign policy | | | | medea by euripedes, white goddess by robert |
| advisors and decision makers. Let's turn a blind | | | | graves, 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia |
| eye to big business and crony capitalists like the | | | | marquez, invisible cities by italo calvino, and the |
| Halliburton Corporation, Diebold, Disney, Dow, GE, | | | | canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer. |