Pajo
Biography
In addition to his own solo work under a variety of headings, multi-instrumentalist David Pajo was a solid presence in the fertile Midwestern indie rock scene of the late 1990s. He has collaborated with an impressive list of underground acts from his own hometown of Louisville, KY, and its musical sister city, Chicago, IL.
Born in Texas in 1968, Pajo moved to his longtime home of Louisville when he was still a child. During his early twenties, he helped make indie rock history with singer/guitarist Brian McMahan, drummer Britt Walford, and bassist Ethan Buckler in Slint. The band's experimental edge and reconsideration of the rock formula shaped the music of the emerging generation of indie bands, creating the media-dubbed post- and math rock styles. Slint's legacy was certainly disproportionate to their relatively small output of two full-length albums and one posthumous EP. Following the release of their seminal Spiderland, the band split, leaving Pajo free to roam, which is exactly what he did. During a period when every Louisville/Chicago musician seemed to have their hand in a half-dozen projects simultaneously, Pajo lent his guitar work to Stereolab and McMahan's the For Carnation, played bass in Royal Trux, drums in Buckler's King Kong, and various instruments in Will Oldham's Palace projects.
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