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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Jandek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		No one from Corwood Industries is represented on screen, but the label did suggest several people to be interviewed for the movie, including music critics Phil Milstein and Gary Pig Gold, and Katy Vine.
		Corwood's recommendation of Vine for the documentary is seen as essentially endorsing the contents and confirming the authenticity of the Texas Monthly interview.
		Corwood stipulated that the performance was not publicized in advance.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Jandek (985 words)

	Corwood Industries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Corwood Industries is the mysterious name given to a Houston, Texas-based company whose only output would appear to be the music of Jandek.
		Formed in 1978, almost six months before Jandek's first release, Corwood Industries has produced 42 albums, catalogue-numbers 0739 through 0780.
		It is not known what other ventures, if any, that Corwood Industries may be involved with.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corwood_Industries (85 words)

	Jandek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barely a handful of people claim to have contacted Jandek, he has never performed live, and his steadfastness in anonymity is legendary.
		The mystery surrounding Jandek, and his record Label Corwood Industries is a huge part of his allure to a small but devoted fan base that includes Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore, Kurt Cobain, and K Records founder Calvin Johnson.
		Outsider music expert Irwin Chusid brought quite a bit of attention to Jandek by including an account of his own dealings with Corwood Industries in his book "Songs In The Key of Z: The Curious World of Outsider Music".
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/jandek.html (221 words)

	Microcinema DVD \| Jandek on Corwood, A Documentary Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jandek on Corwood is the 89-minute documentary that explores this man, his world and his music.
		Jandek released his first album, Ready for the House, in 1978 on his own record label, Corwood Industries (he is, of course, the only artist on this label).
		As the man at Corwood Industries wrote to Jandek on Corwood’s producers when they began the documentary, “You may not get all the answers you want.
	www.microcinema.com /programResult.php?program_id=325 (1102 words)

	Jandek on Summersteps \| May 2005 \| sctas.com
		Many of us aren't exactly sure who purchases the records that Corwood Industries releases to begin with, so for an independent label such as Moscow, PA's Summersteps to release a tribute to the somewhat unknown artist - it's quite bold.
		In July (official release date is 06.21.05 - but you can get yours now), Summersteps will release the second tribute (limited to 1,000 copies) in 5 years to Corwood Industries and their lone artist Jandek.
		When I spoke to Corwood on the phone recently, they were very appreciative of the fact that i could visualize The differences in the series of photos submitted by corwood from Vol.
	www.sctas.com /21/Summer05.html (768 words)

	tonevendor.com :. Jandek - Graven Image CD
		Graven Image was the first Jandek CD (originally released in 1994) and when it went out of print a couple years ago, a whole legion of loafers freaked out and jumped into an extended Ebay clikathon.
		Utilizing guitars (one at time, both acoustic or electric), voice and percussion, this is music from the ultimate void -- vaguely related to genres like folk, blues and avant-garde, but in the end it can only be the sound of Jandek.
		There were 22 LPs released by Corwood in the LP era (all reissued on CD now).
	www.tonevendor.com /item/9673 (175 words)

	Ready for the House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ready for the House is an album by Jandek, released in 1978 by Corwood Industries, release #0739.
		After a legal threat from the New Wave band of the same name, Corwood Industries released every subsequent album under the name of Jandek.
		The stark, painfully exposed, untuned-acoustic blues/folk that once made for such a richly uncomfortable listening experience now sounds focused and brilliant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ready_for_the_House (224 words)

	feature :: Jandek on Corwood DVD :: october
		We have had extensive contact with Corwood Industries throughout this project, and if Corwood was aware of such a documentary, I'm positive they would have informed us.
		And one could object that there was a conspiracy between Vine and her editor, but I don't believe a respected outlet like Texas Monthly would want to risk the loss of credibility that comes with fabricating a story on something so relatively obscure as Jandek.
		Before we shot the PO Box, we wrote Corwood saying we would be there at a specified date and time.
	www.sctas.com /janDVD.html (1445 words)

	erasing clouds
		The 'experts' interviewed in Jandek on Corwood include the few who've had some sort of interaction with Jandek and critics who are in love with his music.
		Through them Jandek on Corwood goes beyond just the story of Jandek and his fans, to examine what it says about music, about art, about people and what they expect from their artists.
		At the same time, as a work of filmmaking, Jandek on Corwood is hurt by the question of how to make a film about a subject for which you have nothing to film.
	www.erasingclouds.com /1110jandek.html (592 words)

	[Jandek] Jandek news from Pitchforkmedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But with Jandek fans prone to wild speculation, the name of this most recent Corwood Industries release is profoundly loaded: The End of It All.
		As music writer Douglas Wolk discussed in the 2003 documentary Jandek on Corwood, albums throughout the Jandek catalog contain what some fans have translated as clues to the end of Corwood Industries' mysterious 26-year string of Jandek releases.
		Previously, much more subtle suggestions of finality have been amplified and circulated as fact-- notably the idea that a finite number of Jandek releases were recorded in a single session, and that the 19th release would be the last.
	mylist.net /archives/jandek/2004-August/000393.html (373 words)

	Jandek on Corwood
		But what you likely wouldn't do is what Jandek has done: Through the Corwood Industries record label, he has released 37 similarly melancholic albums in 26 years.
		Perhaps it's all a hoax, they wonder; maybe Corwood Industries is a well-hidden subsidiary of some Bechtel-style conglomerate; maybe all the albums were recorded years ago and Jandek's long since dead; maybe he's spent serious time struggling with mental illness; perhaps he still does.
		And the establishing shots echo the shadowy, ghostly quality of the Jandek record covers ill-lit rooms, a seashore on an overcast day, dilapidated houses in empty fields are all given to usas we move from subject to subject.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/2003_Jandek_on_Corwood.html (646 words)

	» Corwood Industries :: Tech Terminology and Hardware :: Technical Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Artists who have had releases through Low Transit Industries include: * The Ca$inos * Elf Power * The Essex Green * Of Montreal * Season * The Sound Platform * The Steinbecks Low Transit Industries also briefly operated a singles club, periodically sending out split 7" singles to subscribers.
		Cargo Industries is a drum and bass record label run by Stakka after he and Skynet had split up to produce music individually.
		Itronix has introduced the Duo-Touch Tablet PC, a rugged slate tablet PC for mobile professionals in industries such as telecommunications, utilities, government, and insurance.
	tech.news-axis.com /1322/corwood-industries (394 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat - Jandek's secret safe - Thursday, November 4, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ostensibly, "Jandek on Corwood" is an inquiry into the enigma that is the musician Jandek.
		For 26 years, Corwood Industries has released records (starting with 1978's Ready for the House) by one musician: Jandek, who is also the owner and sole proprietor of the label.
		Ask for information from Corwood Industries, and you'll most likely receive a record catalogue and a cryptic, handwritten message.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/98/53/04_8.html (686 words)

	Corwood Industries - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Corwood Industries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Corwood Industries - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Corwood Industries.
		Here you will find more informations about Corwood Industries.
		The orginal Corwood Industries article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Corwood-Industries.html (131 words)

	Epinions.com - an impossible epinion...
		The Man known only under this name is a Texan reclusive that has been releasing records in a steady pace of at least one a year since the early eighties.
		Corwood only releases Jandek records and the label has no office, just a P.O Box.
		The reason for all this mystery can be found in Jandek's music wich is utterly socially deviant and creepy and often sounds like the work of man with serious mental health issues.
	www.epinions.com /content_974102660 (436 words)

	Jandek on Corwood Movie Review - Jandek on Corwood Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Like an old vinyl record, there's a hole at the center of "Jandek on Corwood," and it's the subject of the movie himself.
		All we have is his music: since 1978, 37 albums of atonal, whispery death blues, described by one listener as sounding like "something frightening left on your answering machine" and distributed by a mysterious entity called Corwood Industries, based in Houston.
		"Jandek on Corwood" is terribly padded nevertheless, and eventually even the fans have to admit they might like Jandek less if they knew any more about him - that his mystique is as important as his defiantly uneasy music.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7256 (512 words)

	Browse by Artist: JANDEK
		By the mid-80s a wealth of documentation had occurred and the early Corwood albums became notoriously unavailable just as people were finally getting up the gumption to consider buying them.
		Originally issued in 1981, this was the first actual album to be entitled to an artist named Jandek (the first Corwood album, 0739, was credited to the Units -- although that practice has been abandoned in the CD domain, an epic travesty in the minds of a few hardliners).
		As the soul of individualism is being destroyed by the forces of evil, Jandek's flame is an especially bright beacon in the dark." -- Byron Coley.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/jandek.html (2819 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes: Jandek on Corwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He's plastered his face over dozens of albums covers, and he's made Corwood Industries- the company that has single-handedly birthed Jandek albums to the world through sleight of hand and a P.O. Box- an easily accessible business through the pen and paper.
		Just write the man, and as long as you aren't hoping to pry into his personal life, he'll be more than happy to return your query with a cryptic, almost Confucius-like wisdom.
		And of course, he gave his blessing to the minds behind Jandek on Corwood, the documentary trying to discover just who is Jandek the musician.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /articles/05.05.04-jandek.htm (578 words)

	SEE Magazine: October 21, 2004
		Chad Friedrichs’ Jandek on Corwood attempts to document the story of Jandek, without actually talking to the man himself.
		It’s better that way," is the response Friedrichs got when he attempted to contact Corwood Industries, the company which produces the albums and seems to be run out of a post office box in Texas.
		And, oddly enough, Corwood Industries may be right.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/2004/1021/screen6.htm (294 words)

	Jandek On Corwood - The Bullhorn .net - music news, reviews, interviews, MP3s, pics, vid and more
		Slowly, word of Jandek spread, primarily through college radio stations and obscure fanzines.In 1985, writer John Trubee was approached by the executive editor of a fledgling music magazine called Spin to submit an article about the artist of his choice.
		"Corwood Industries is an industrial giant in the Houston area dedicated entirely to manufacturing and disseminating Jandek musical material," muses writer Byron Coley.
		Jandek on Corwood lay out these intriguing facts for its audience, it also explores their implications.
	www.thebullhorn.net /content/view/73/55 (2622 words)

	Cork Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Apart from the records the only other link to him is the equally mysterious Corwood Industries record label - for which he is the sole artist.
		Jandek on Corwood sets out, not so much to find the man behind the myth but to investigate how one person, about whom so little is known, can generate so much opinion.
		Simpsons creator, Matt Groening, is reputed to be a huge fan (what do you mean, you didn't get the intertextual references?), as are a host of left-field recording artists but perhaps Kurt Cobain put it best when he famously remarked, 'He's not pretentious, but only pretentious people like his music'.
	www.corkfilmfest.org /programme/docs/jandek.html (196 words)

	HIATUS- Jandeck on Corwood.
		Jandeck and Corwood Industries are probably the exclusive efforts of one person (if you send a check to Corwood Industries, your returned check is endorsed by Sterling R. Smith).
		He has never made any sort of public statement and has possibly never preformed live (I know this contradicts what I said before but there is some doubt as to whether that really was Jandeck or not).
		The records were at one point promoted to the extent that Corwood Industries used to send records to college radio stations and take out advertisements in a limited number of national magazines.
	students.law.drake.edu /hiatus/reviews/Jandeck.html (961 words)

	Weirdomusic.com :: jandek ::
		Customers could order large quantities at discounted prices direct from Corwood Industries and those who wrote to the PO Box were rewarded with a typed copy of the ever-expanding Jandek catalogue, sometimes accompanied by a cryptic handwritten fortune-cookie message signed ‘Corwood’.
		Jandek was the retarded son of a wealthy motor industry owner who released his music as a tax write-off.
		Appearing unannounced, the musician on stage was confirmed only as ‘a representative from Corwood Industries’, although he bore a striking resemblance to the man pictured on the front of the record sleeves.
	www.weirdomusic.com /jandek.htm (2014 words)

	Journey into the maze of Jandek
		The theories about Jandek were all over the map: Maybe he is the retarded son of a guy who worked in a record factory; maybe he was a loner who lives in a shack by the river.
		Hand-written letters, middle, were part of the correspondence Fehler and Freidrichs received from Corwood Industries.
		Their first step was to write Corwood Industries for its blessing to use Jandek’s music and album covers in their documentary.
	archive.showmenews.com /2004/Sep/20040926Ovat001.asp (1079 words)

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		This record, like Jandeks first (Ready for the House), is comprised of not just basically one chord throughout, but as far as I can tell he barely even touches the fret board of his guitar, using his instrument more for atmosphere and percussion than anything like a song.
		As the soul of individualism is being destroyed by the forces of evil, Jandeks flame is an especially bright beacon in the dark." - Byron Coley.
		This had been the final release during Corwoods vinyl era and now with this release, their CD reissue program is at last complete.
	www.fusetronsound.com /index.php?whomlab=CorwoodIndustries (3073 words)

	eye - The enigma fixation - 02.03.05
		There are basic facts: in 1978, a Houston, Texas company called Corwood Industries released an album called Ready for the House, credited at the time to The Units.
		A spare, haunting recording featuring one man singing surreal lyrics over meandering, detuned acoustic guitar, it was followed two years later by another, similar recording, this time credited to someone called Jandek.
		In a totally unexpected move, the subject of that fable recently materialized in the flesh, when the man presumed to be Jandek played an unprecedented live set at the Instal.04 festival in Glasgow last October.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.03.05/film/jandekoncorwood.html (726 words)

	HoustonBands.Net - Jandek On Corwood
		Producing at least an album a year since 1981, after his first in 1978, the recluse known only as Jandek has been making records for the equally obscure Corwood Industries label that is run out of Post Office Box 15375 in Houston, Texas.
		The trick is to grasp the flat out pureness that can be found from someone who either never tried, or just never bothered, to tune their guitar and simply recorded what they feel and music they hear in their head.
		Chad Freidrichs and Paul Fehler conducted 55 hours of interviews with 24 people that have known and theorized for 25 years about the enigma that is Jandek in their film Jandek On Corwood.
	www.houstonbands.net /Feature/Jandek/jandek.html (1708 words)

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