Jose Macabra Presents #13 - Vagina Dentata Organ Retrospective

Jose Macabra presents solo work and other collaborations.

Vagina Dentata Organ is an art and noise music project by Jordi Valls. Valls is from Catalonia, 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 and violence.

Valls' work is also concerned with the fetishism of art in general, record collecting particularly, with his own records being released in very limited edition.

Vagina Dentata Organ has provoked outrage on a number of occasions, namely by releasing the infamous recording of The Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Their performance in 1984 on Spanish TV programme La Edad de Oro TV caused a public outcry as it included the destruction of three paintings.

A video documentary on the first three Vagina Dentata Organ albums was made by Julian Alvarez and won first prize in the 26th Semana de Cinema in Barcelona. In 1997, the arts and culture magazine Life Without Sex dedicated a whole issue to Vagina Dentata Organ.
More recently, Jordi Valls has concentrated on painting rather than recording, producing a large number of portraits of supermodels with his own blood.