Jared Jackel is a Penticton based multi-instrumentalist and producer presiding somewhere inside the otherworldly realm of gothic cowboy psychedelia. Jackel, releasing two hazily ambitious albums under the title of Jared Jackel’s Bad Vibrations, is belligerently experimental-combining a meticulously refined command of bizarro country tonality, with an aggressively original lyricism. Jared Jackel’s Bad Vibrations’ spirited live sets consist of avant-garage, one-man-band style songs backed by foot-triggered bass drones, twangy post-western guitar playing, and retro-jazz drum-machines.
Volunteers are a 3 piece (sometimes up to 6 piece) garage country group from the North Okanagan. They take influence from John Prine, Gene Clark, Buffy St. Marie, The Flying Burrito Brothers and other psyche country acts from the 60s and 70s, blending them with traditional folk and country songwriting conventions, and dense lyricism about love, mortality, compost and garbage.