Jandek live?

Another review from Randall Roberts:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/01/jandek-in-irvine-a-mystery-musician-makes-his-first-california-appearance.html

did i call the can comparison or did i call it? i called it.

Miller and Watt got into a groove that moved steadily and confidently; at times it suggested the Motorik rhythm of German krautrock -- Watt dove into a bassline referencing Can's "Father Cannot Yell" at one point

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

You called it indeed!

yeah he plays line 6 spider amps and godin guitars, obviously he doesn't have a clue about decent gear, as far as i'm concerned that's a pretty awful set up -but he seems to make it work

When I brought him to Vienna he asked for a Line 6 Spider but it proved impossible to find one for hire. So he just used a regular Fender amp on that occasion. Seemed happy enough with it though.

can't believe jandek is from texas and chooses to play in cali instead of his home state ;_;

hook 'em in 2011 jandek!!

he played the legendary funk jam afternoon gig in Houston though

plus he can only play where he gets offers, it's not a question of choosing

he played the legendary funk jam afternoon gig in Houston though
Just want to reiterate this.

When is that Houston gig coming out on Corwood??

Well, by my reckoning the gap between the gig and the CD release is running at about four years at the moment. They come out in strict chronological order so I wouldn't expect Houston to come out until 2013. Same goes for the Vienna show which is the one I'm really waiting for.

for some reason the thing of jandek using totally guitar center lame "pro" geir is kinda awesomely perverse to me.

yeah, like does he go into a guitar center in some texas strip mall, play a couple bars of "whole lotta love" and go "i'll take it!"?

seeing him tomorrow in easthampton. word on the street is he requested "a country band" to back him up. yeeeeeha!

how was this? who backed him? tell me tell me tell me.

ian if i am understanding you right there's this

Country & Western Jandek Was Unreal Tonight. The Image Of Him Jumping Up And Down And Playing His Harmonica...

jandek is going to be live on WFMU today! is this his first radio bcast? omg. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT

oh no there have been quite a few.

he was on East Village Radio a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/content/content.php?id=3430

pretty great performance, i thought, with a nice harmonica ending

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/upload/images/Jandek440.jpg

cool...this one seems to be with a "a full acoustic/voice ensemble".

maybe the Boss inspired him and the Rep gathered a gospel choir, to chant about shepherds and flocks and what have you. we'll see :)

don't hear any choir, this sound pretty classic jandek voice & guitar

haha oops that a track from later on lol

yeah, set hasn't started yet... seems to be about to kick off.

sort of sounding like free jazz mazzy star currently

haha totally....some of the quieter parts remind me of ECM records type stuff but more random sounding

yeahhh, jandek garbarek. the man is playing piano i take it?

oh lol, he was playing drums.

jandek garbarek

^^haha display name alert!

hee hee. ok, now i'm going to listen to that Train album. What a world!

saw Jandek in Austin tonight with a 5 piece backing band -- clarinet, xylophone, viola, bass, and random percusson.... very droning, sleepy and zoned waaaayy out there style performance, i loved it and almost nodded off, it was so hypnotizing!

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Susan_Alcorn/Jandek_Live_at_ISSUE_Project_Room

http://vimeo.com/40774310

i am starting to think Jandek could be in the people who have figured out how to live thread

anybody else at the cafe oto show last night?

no guitar, he played electric keyboard all night with a dodgy electric piano preset. joined by john edwards and alex nielson who both stayed in rattling extended technique crescendo/diminuendo free improv mode. byron wallan on horns who kept sneaking in coltrane-esque phrases in between articulating jandek’s words with v descriptive playing (which i found quite distracting and a bit cheesy) right at the end wallan was blowing air through the horn and mutated it into a kind of jokey cackle. jandek closed his song book and that was it.

i’d guess about 1/3 of the crowd left during the show. nobody i was with enjoyed it at all. lots of chatter in the background from people who obv had no idea who jandek was / what to expect.

so jandek mostly stuck to the extremes of the keyboard, the real low notes and real high notes. pentatonic modes. his approach was often to execute an idea over a very long period of time, you’d get a pattern slowly crawling across the keyboard from the high notes to the low notes, very little harmony, just lots of twinkling keys, always avoiding repetition and logical motion- so no melody or cadences. spent a lot of time playing in F# pentatonic (all the black notes) so he could his swipe his hand up and down the keys while staying relatively consonant.

his vocal delivery/phrasing was remarkable. edwards/nielson were totally with him in that respect- the brief silences were great. although because his voice varies v little in mood/tonality I found it a bit jarring when they’d do their firey ~let’s get intense~ build-ups every time he said something ‘aggressive’ or w/e and kind of distracted from the jandekness

definitely enjoyed the evening. had me thinking a lot, never got bored. i think most people were disappointed with the lack of guitar. heard lots of grumbling around me. the electric piano thing was weird, because he’s such an intimate player and the fake electric piano is such a, uh, binary on/off type instrument, it made it less about the millisecond-millisecond inflections and accidental sounds and more about his phrasing, which while interesting, didn’t quite give off the same vibe as what you hear him do with a piano/guitar/chair/voice.

anyway, interesting night, glad I finally got to see him, i spent a *lot* of time with his music at one point in my life, find it fascinating.

he was stood next to us looking desperate to escape at the end. was gonna attempt conversation but he was hiding in his hat looking at the looking at the floor.

I was there. Really enjoyed it. Thought it was very 70's Miles. As for the leaving, bear in mind that Cafe Oto isn't the easiest place to get back from for a lot of people, so some people might have been forced to leave by reasons other than the music. I had to leave 90mins in, otherwise would've been a lengthy Night Bus trek home on a 'school night'.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdZRIt-CIAAUYJQ.jpg

whoa wait what

interview?!?!?

David Keenan interview I think, or at least as far as I could decipher via a Marc Masters post somewhere (but that would be a likely candidate).

And yes, apparently real.

aw, I was hoping Cosmo would get his first interview.

Anyone going to the Cafe Oto shows in February? No better way to spend Valentine's Day

If I lived in the UK I would perhaps. Cafe Oto sure gets a lot of good shows. If only teleportation was real.

can someone link to the source of that image??

interview w/Jandek about Loren Conners from June: http://the-out-door.tumblr.com/post/53438923538/full-transcript-of-our-interview-with-jandek

That's a great interview, just re-read it (though not sure if I read the full transcript before today).

very interesting, did not know about that. He has quite a way with words.

Yeah, I am psyched for that Wire interview. David Keenan can irk me sometimes, mostly just in his reviews at times, but his interviews are generally good to great.

I just finished reading a stolen pdf of England's Hidden Reverse (because Keenan refuses to put it out in PB), and I hate him even more now than before, he is consistently wrong in his quasi-record-reviews in that book.

Hah his reviews are really heavy-handed, and I completely stopped buying stuff according to his recommendation or taking his slams very seriously. I was pretty "disappointed" at his takedown of Lonnie Holley in a recent Wire. I mean, I get that he isn't for everybody, but Lonnie deserves a little more respect than he got, especially considering the fawning that some other "hippieish" music has gotten by him.

um, he is putting out a revised edition later this year

xp

he's been saying that for a decade, I'll believe it when I see it

believe, you of little faith

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/sap-summer-update/