Jabe Ledoux (Ancón, Panama, 1980) is a fat queer composer/improviser/percussionist currently based in Vergennes, Vermont, USA. Ledoux uses repetition, found sound, and poly-rhythm to create “gratingly meditative” pieces that explore fatness, rage, grief, queerness, hope, trauma, peace, redemption & love. Starting out as a drummer in experimental rock bands in the late 1990s, Ledoux went on to form the inclusive-improvisational (iNprov) outlet ‘the le duo’ in 2007, as well as the solo percussion/electronics project ‘Jo Bled’ in 2018. Ledoux transitioned away from the Jo Bled moniker in 2025. The Wire said Ledoux’s music “equally resembles a garbage truck compacting metal trash in a pre-dawn alley, and a gamelan orchestra heard through a malfunctioning walkie talkie.” Andrew Weathers, writing in Rocker Magazine, December 2024 Issue #7 “This music has an idiosyncratic affect that draws me in- it’s obvious that there’s a structure and a plan here but near impossible to tell what that is”

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