Vagina Dentata Organ

Vagina Dentata Organ is an art and sound project by Jordi Valls.

Valls is from Catalonia in Spain and cites the influence of the surrealists, especially Salvador Dali on his work. His albums could be classed as especially bleak field recordings, dealing with subject matter such as sex, death, violence, etc. [ [http://uncarved.org/music/Vdo.html 23 Questions to Jordi Valls / Vagina Dentata Organ ] ]

Valls work is also concerned with the fetishism of art in general and record collecting particularly, with his records being pressed in very small numbers.

Vagina Dentata Organ have provoked outrage on a number of occasions, firstly with the release of infamous recordings of the last few hours of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. VDO's performance in 1984 on Spanish TV programme La Edad de Oro caused a public outcry as it included the destruction of three paintings.

A video documentary on the first 3 VDO albums was made by Julian Alvarez and won first prize in the 26th Semana de Cinema in Barcelona.

In 1997 Arts and culture magazine "Life Without Sex" dedicated a whole issue to Vagina Dentata Organ.

More recently Jordi Valls has concentrated on paintings rather than recording, producing a large number of portraits of supermodels with his own blood. [ [http://www.elsitiodeltopo.com.ar/vdo_ingles.htm Vagina dentata organ ] ]

Discography

*"Music for Hashasins" LP (WSNS 001 33)Processed recordings of wolves.

*"The Last Supper" LP 1983 (WSNS 002 33) - picture disc LP in an edition of 912 hand numbered copies, one for each dead body found at JonestownRecordings of the final moments of The Peoples Temple, including sermons by the Reverend Jim Jones

*"Triumph of the Flesh" LP 1984 (WSNS 003 33) - picture disc LP, with some editions containing Valls' own blood.Recordings of the Easter drum festival in the Spanish village of Calanda [ [http://www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/?p=535 Vagina Dentata Organ - Triumph Of The Flesh LP - World Satanic Network Services Records 1984 | ] ]

*"Cold Meat" LP (WSNS 004 33)Processed recordings of human orgasms

*"Un Chien Catalan" CD (WSNS 1994 001 CD) Recordings of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle

* "The Perpignan Killings" CD (a retrospective compilation)

All albums originally released on WSNS Records (World Satanic Network System / World Surrealist Network System)

Other work

Jordi Valls has collaborated with industrial music groups Throbbing Gristle (who he organised an early show for in Barcelona), Psychic TV (starring in their video for "Catalan" which was directed by Derek Jarman) and Whitehouse (performing spoken word duties on their "Psychopathia Sexualis" album).

ee also

*Vagina dentata

References

External links

* [http://www.uncarved.org/music/Vdo.html Interview]
* [http://www.thesoundprojector.com/exc_sp1_den.html Review of Vagina Dentata Organ's "Un Chien Catalan"]
* [http://www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes/words/outerlimits1102.htm Review of "Perpigian Killings"]
* [http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2005/08aug_text.html Review of "The Great Masturbator"]
* [http://www.indyrock.es/vaginadentata.htm Profile of Vagina Dentata Organ (Spanish)]
* [http://www.fopi.net/disco/odds.htm A partial discography at FOPI, with scans]