NOT HUNTING FOR MEANING: a Jandek listening thread

I think "Poor Boy" is the most explicit blues nod yet, I believe I commented upthread on the cover connection between Six And Six and a Robert Johnson photo

and then followed up directly with harmonica on the next track, this has always been ghost blues but it took me a while to catch on

You’re livin’ free and livin’ high
You’re like some angel in the sky
You’re like some angel in the sky
You’re like some angel in the sky high high high

I was thinking bout this thread last week too! Think we only did two albums? Let's get back into it!

this is the 4th but the older dropbox links expired, will happily re-up for anyone, just holla at me here

Ready For The House, Six And Six and Chair Beside A Window are my favourite Jandek albums that I've heard (have heard about 15) so I think I am a pretty basic Jandek fan

after those I quite like the mid-late 80s stuff like Telegraph Melts, Follow Your Footsteps, Blue Corpse etc

I've got about 40 albums and saw him 3 times but still feel pretty basic at times.

I think in addition to those the psych/melodic phase that follows the Nancy breakup albums are pretty good (You Walk Alone through to Lost Cause, maybe) and the Noughties phase definitely has its moments (I Threw You Away, The Humility Of Pain, The Gone Wait).

The very latest (Vision of Jewels, Dec 23) has an astonishingly high RYM score so I should probably check it out.

wasn’t my intention but i’ve been listening to a lot of chamber jandek (where do you go from here, maze of the phantom, atlanta saturday/outcast of civilization) and it is some of the most beautiful music ever made

chamber jandek

!!!

i so want to believe this is chamber groups playing in jandek tuning, but i'm sure that's not what it is

no it's better, truly gorgeous orchestral pieces

I don't see how anything could be better, but ok, it's on my to-do list for the day

chamber groups playing in jandek tuning

the mountain step comes close to this

I have actually only heard "where do you go from here" (the gorgeous one) and the NINE DISC Songs Of Morgan which is nine hour-long nocturnes for solo piano. My 84-year-old mom loved the box set when I put it on during a visit, she bought her own copy directly from Corwood!

the recent corwood release i'm eager to hear that's in my cart right now is the wizards hour, which is a set he did for WNYU in 2012 and i'm assuming it features the same ensemble i saw at vaudeville park (posted clips from that sadly still-unreleased show upthread)

i'm also hella ordering the rudyard's dvd

a couple of folks in that vaudeville park ensemble were pals of mine, Valerie led an ensemble called Dream Zoo at that time who were totally crushworthy surrealist chamber theater thing, pure innovation. the only thing remotely similar is Monster Walks the Winter Lake

anyway i listened to the excerpts i could find of where do you go from here & maze of the phantom YT

the former is < 5 mins just drums, piano and guitar, guessing this doesn't give me a sense of the thing

maze is a more substantial excerpt and it is very, very nice, something like temperate zone exotica

A review of The Wizards Hour here...

the mountain step comes close to this

well that one instantly put a big, stoopid grin on my face

oh shit whoops wizards hour was 2009... why did i misread it as 2012 lol

well i guess i have to continue hoping he'll one day release that vaudeville park show so i can relive that memory

Great story about your mom sleeve. Songs of Morgan is going to be my study playlist for today

I keep repeating, it takes a beating
To grow up naked in the afternoon

Ivy, they put that group together just to do the Vaudeville Park shows, but it was filmed for an episode of ESP TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja_inwDsmNo

And yeah awesome story sleeve :)

Maze Of The Phantom was an outlier at first, even for Jandek, but I've grown to like it a lot. I'll always stan for the electric bass albums - The Gone Wait, Shadow Of Leaves.

Super-stoked to have tickets see the Rep & co. next week!

omg thank you for that video deflatormouse

You're welcome. I've collaborated with ESP TV on a couple of events, they are super nice & meticulous archivists of analog media. i'm sure they have a recording of the whole show(s), less sure it's been digitized. i could ask.

Living In A Moon So Blue (1982)

I love the cover of this one, returning to the debut's baffling real-world images after three self-portraits. The album is a collection of 16 miniatures that I recall nothing about off the top of my head. Kinda goes along with the cover I guess. Gonna give it a spin when this Tom Petty album is over.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/rkyp209zbzmqomx2wmwb7/h?rlkey=jw4p0elunppgb7n1locfwtosb&dl=0

Bludgeon (1/8)
Please do not push any buttons
On this machine
On what machine
Wet paint
Keep Out

no comments on this one? it does seem like a bit of a retread of earlier ideas...