Jef Barbara

Montreal’s Jef Barbara is proof positive that the most effective and far-reaching forms of music involve three fundamental things: unwavering commitment, a sense of humour and an arsenal of juicy bass lines. This glittering, pansexual nightclubber makes music so effective and provocative, to deny it is to deny one’s most primal instincts. Steeped in synth-pop, disco snippets and soft rock balladry, Barbara’s bilingual catalogue combines a rich understanding of musical and cultural history with a deep-seated existential desire for catharsis. The results of which are an irresistible kind of measured indulgence. Barbara is a musician in the same sense that Andy Kaufman was a comedian: both performers take ‘the event’ as their chosen medium and proceed to explode the possibilities of a bad joke or a struck note.

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