Jakalope
Genre: a mix of Industrial/Rock/Pop.
Band Member Overview: It is a project of Dave Ogilvie and the lead singer is Katie B. Jakalope Features alot of other people to.
Biography for Orange Record Label
Jakalope was first spawned in the creative mind of world-renowned producer and mixer, Dave "Rave" Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie). The Vancouver native brought the Jakalope to life in the spring of 2003. Ogilvie wanted to create an environment where artists he had previously worked with and whose talent he admired, could enter his world and contribute to a collective vision for a unique recording - a new kind of music with its genesis in the Industrial music (for which Ogilvie was most famous) but that progressed through searing rock to melodic pop. A daunting task but once the Jakalope was born, the project soon took tangible form. Ogilvie had made the acquaintance of a talented young vocalist, Katie B at Vancouver's Warehouse recording studio. Looking to form a group involving the stunningly beautiful twenty-two year old singer, Ogilvie enlisted the help of Don Harrison, Don Binns and Don Short. "The three Dons" are best remembered as the crunching bottom-end of seminal Canadian rock band, Sons Of Freedom. Ogilvie next brought Anthony "Fu" Valcic into the Jakalope fold. As an artist, Valcic was a member of electronic pioneers Moev and as a producer/engineer/re-mixer/programmer, is well known for his work with Download, Skinny Puppy, Orgy, Staind, and Trapt. Word of this Frankenstein-ish assembly of talent filtered south of the border where Ogilvie's good friend and mentor, Trent Reznor, caught wind of strange goings on in the Warehouse studio laboratory. Trent wanted in and began collaborating with Ogilvie, falling further into the Jakalope's allure by first offering his brilliant producing, then songwriting and finally playing skills to the project. Soon other musicians and artists appeared at the control room door. As Ogilvie began to build it, they came. Guest artists for the project include Trent Reznor, Monster Magnet, Sloan, Kat Bjelland from Babes in Toyland, Thom D'arcy (Carnations), Phil Western, Malhavoc and many others.
Dave Ogilvie began his recording career in Vancouver working as an engineer at Mushroom Studios, producing for 54-40, The Grapes of Wrath, Moev and The Doughboys. But it was his work with Industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy that earned him international recognition. Dave is considered the band's fourth member, co-writing and playing guitar in addition to his production duties. Dave's ability to fuse Skinny Puppy's signature sound of Industrial, Goth and Electronic music brought him to the attention of Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Ogilvie was enlisted to work on NIN's 1994's "March Of The Pigs" singles remix album. After forming his own label, Nothing Records, Trent selected Dave to co-produce Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" which sold over one million copies. Dave has gone on to produce, mix and/or re-mix tracks for such artists as David Bowie, Motley Crue, Orgy, Spineshank, Skindive, Love Inc., Serial Joe, Copyright, Sloan and N.E.R.D
List of people involved with Jakalope:
Dave Ogilvie
Tour: Guitar, Keyboards and Vocals
Album Producer, Recorder, Mixer,
Jakalope was first spawned in the creative mind of world-renowned producer and mixer, Dave "Rave" Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie). The Vancouver native brought the Jakalope to life in the spring of 2003.
Katie Biever
Tour: Vocals
Singer
See Katie Bio here
Anthony ValcicAlbum Producer
Jamey Koch
Mixer, additional production
Trent Reznor
Additional Production
Trent Reznor IS Nine Inch Nails. This tormented genius of Industrial music has released several albums and re-mixes. His seminal release, Halo 8: the downward spiral is arguably the greatest Industrial rock record ever released. He has composed movie soundtracks, most recently for Man On Fire, for which he was the musical supervisor. His albums have consistently sold platinum in the United States and throughout the world.
Phil Caivano
Phil Caivano , who had previously fronted and played bass for Blitzspeer, joined Monster Magnet as a guitarist in 1998. Monster Magnet was born out of the punk movement that over-ran the music scene in New York and neighbouring New Jersey in the early 80's.
Phil Western
Additional Mixing
Vincent Marcone
Art Design and website design of Jakalope.net. Also part of tour doing visuals.
Vincent Marcone recently won a Juno for the design of the year on 'It Dreams.' When I asked him about his inspiration he told me: "My inspiration from Jakalope came by brewing a variety factors together.... I have been a fan of Dave's for sometime, having his energy and input on this project provided great fuel for the imagery. The concept of Jakalope, from a musical perspective, is a monstrous hybrid of talents coming together...contributing...spewing....creating.....I took this idea quite literally when creating the creatures...providing hybrids of my own....which eventually made their way into the album art, story line and music videos."
Vincent's work has been seen in various places such as mypetskeleton.com and the Johnny Hollow website. Anyone who has seen his art describes it as unique and intresting. Some have said that it's almost as if a medieval spirit is present in his web design which incorporates hidden messages and meanings in the art.
Vincent Marcone has always been an artist at heart even since kindergarten where he would select the most rich colour of all: gold. Marcone later studied Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo and then moved on to Conestoga College.
All Jakalope Fans are sure to hope that Vincent's gothic-like style touches the magic of Jakalope for time to come. Without him, a huge piece of the band would cease to exist.
Don Short
Don HarrisonDon Binns
Dan Moyse
Lisa Winn
Backup vocals on CD and tour.
Sean Stubbs
Fu
Marc Belke
Matt Warhurst
Bass during tour. See interview in interview section.
Alexz Johnson
Pete Mills
Andrew Scott
Chris Murphy
"I played a little bass part and a little guitar part. I don't even know what songs they ended up being. I did not sing or write lyrics. We are just friends with Rave and hung out in the studio for a few hours."
Thom D?Arcy
Jamie Maxwell
Rave
Sarah Kendrick
Lindy
Patrick Pentland
Trevor Yuile
Tim Welch
Jasmin Tasia
Daryn Barry
Kat Bjelland
Jimmy ?The Monkey?
Hop Frogg
Brad Moss
Bob Sanzo
Blair Dopson
Jakalope Song List:
It Dreams
Feel It
Creeper
Pretty Life
Go Away
Tell Me Why
Screecher
Come On
Light After Night
Nothing Nowhere
Badream
House Of Trepidation
On the official Jakalope website, there is a section called the Petri Dish. There will be an amoeba that you click then nubers apear. They are puzzles that you have to solve.
Jakalope currently has 2 music videos. Pretty Life and Feel It, which you can watch on the official site.
Both the music videos and the Petri Dish tell a story. The video Feel It picks up from where Pretty Life leaves off.
For more information on Jakalope, check these sites.
jakalope.net <------- official site
jakalopefan.com <------ the best fan site you will ever find
(Biography from Orange Record Lable and Band members list from Jackalopefan.com)
