Jandek

Hey at least somebody's pushing Bruno Mars and Katy Perry off the top of the charts...

xxpost Oh right. I was thinking of jandek.com. Still, that one has been around for years and that's his site too.

lol imagine losing the million dollar question on Jandek and when back home checking some mp3's! (RIP contestant)

my wife's thoughts:

"this person always comes up on shuffle...... FUCK this person's terrible.... i recognize it, but it's terrible, it sounds like this guitar is terribly out of tune, and secondly, the production on this is very bad... UGH jandek..... terrible"

she should hear this recent one Toronto Sunday - Duality of Self, Jandek does new age synth meditations. first disc is chill, second is dark, it's quite astounding.

thankfully a company has repressed a few of his early records, this should continue, more power to them

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plus all new #0759 JANDEK EMOTICON for all your IM needs

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(credit to me)

Guessing the the idea that all shows will eventually been issued has been abandoned? Did I remember that right?

No he's still putting them out. The last one came out in December. The wait time is about four years though.

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hahaha

This thread revival inspired me to pull out the copy of Portland Thursday I had fished out of the dollar bin but had yet to listen to. This is weird but strangely appealing.

with all this the best thing about that Wilson guy is that he made like 68 folk albums of his own atonal music. As well.

with those sealed vinyl records I tend to wonder, does he know if the proper lp is inside? They might be Herb Alpert lp's

will spin Your Turn To Fall this morning (no pun intended) in honor of Naythen

Jandek goes beard rock

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/assets_c/2012/07/Jandek%20July%2013%208-thumb-560x373.jpg

new theory -- garth hudson is jandek
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has Jandek become a band with somebody else singing? I just picked up a live set from last week that has a female singer. & presumably the individual who I thought was called Jandek on guitar under the name Coorwood Rep.
I'm not that familiar with his previous work but I thought the Jandek ouevre was put out by an individual called Jandek with occasional augmentation by other players. & maybe occasional chord changes.

what's next the Jandek franchise?

well prior to the live shows everyone assumed that the guy on the covers was Jandek. it was a natural assumption to make but he never actually stated outright that he was Jandek. And since the live shows started happening he has never referred to himself by that name and neither have any of the promoters and whatnot who have been involved. he is "a representative of corwood industries". In theory Jandek is the name of the project. When the live CDs are released he stipulates no credits to individual musicians. In practice many people still refer to the person as Jandek and that's fine as well.

Jandek has had the odd collaborator in the past, perhaps most famously the classic Nancy Sings, one of the most beautiful Corwood songs.

his Country & Western Revue show in Easthampton, MA last year had a female singer who was great. duets w/ Jandek is a pretty awesome task

he played bass for that show, accompanied by full band w/ slide quitar.

New album Mazes Of The Phantom has become my new "background music to program to." A review out there references early-70s Euro-free-jazz and that's not too far off of a description. Can't wait for his Krautrock phase.

Happy 67th birthday to Sterling R. Smith!

super excited for this! jandek documentary about a show he played in minnesota, old friend of mine plays drums at the show being documented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_BbUk5uiY

obligatory RSD release:

http://www.jackpotrecords.com/events/2013/02/18/jandek-rsd-2013-box-set/

I wish he'd get faster at releasing the live shows. I'd kill to hear that Davis or Irvine show again.

I particularly love the songs from the Irvine show that sounded like fucked up Minutemen, where he'd say something serial killer-y like "I'm coming after you. Coming to get you. You can't get away" and then let Mike Watt do his thing.

It did nothing for me when he joined Kan Mikami & Alex Neilson on Friday night (except cause wishes that he'd not bothered), but the set as the original Glasgow live trio of Jandek with Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs last night was killer in a noisy, discordant, free-rock kind of way - I loved it! Some choice lyrics, especially the cupcakes song (seriously).

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Jandek with Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs at Counterflows 2013 by Crimson Glow Photography, on Flickr

it was good to see jandek getting down on the dance floor after the gig. he had some good moves.

I was sorry to have to leave straight after the set, but I was completely exhausted. Would have loved to have taken part in that.

Apparently Jandek's new album is a 9CD set (only $32!) - each disc is a single hour-long track.

This must be the "piano suites" there was talk about last fall...

who wants to do an ilx pre-cover of this album

As seen on Twitter http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNs6AhWCUAAku1v.jpg

^^^ best party music

early word is it sounds exactly like bruce hornsby

I liked "The Beginning" (16-or so minute solo piano piece from the CD of the same name) but I don't need 9 hours' worth, thanks.

I do.

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nocturne one is about morgan fairchild
nocturne two is about morgan spurlock

nocturne 6 is about captain morgan
nocturne 9 is about morgan freeman

would buy if the concept was morgan le fay meets mckinley morganfield

nocturne 3 is about tracy morgan
nocturne 4 is about morgan stanley

Of the recent "piano Jandek" recordings, Atlanta Saturday is worth a listen. It's straight up American classical avant-garde - would fit right in next to your Charles Ives records.

^^ really mad at myself for missing that performance too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S0TTH22zps

uploader "banksyknight" adds:

From 'Maze Of The Phantom' (Corwood 0808). The whole album sounds like this.
Alright then, Sterling. I give up. You win.

it sounds lovely

I know right? gonna get it

Hah that is great. Both the quote and the music. Sterling does win.

goddamn it this does sound good.

This is fucking amazing. Definitely gonna pick this up.