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	Jandek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jandek is an outsider musician presumably from Houston, Texas.
		Jandek's music is unique, but his lyrics closely mirror the country blues and folk traditions of Eastern Texas.
		Jandek has two performances scheduled for September 2006, one in Toronto on the 17th and one in Chicago on the 20th.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jandek (1944 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes Reviews: Jandek Music Review
		When Jandek blurts, "Be Careful/ I'm the vulnerable kind/ I like to hurt myself" with a laconic drawl in "New Dimension," he seems acutely aware of the lines as over-the-top oversimplifications of the sort of Romantic/masochistic/withdrawn axis on which listeners often place his music.
		For the cynics who reduce Jandek's art to schtick and view his catalogue as a series of lazy recyclings, this record is the show-'em-some that's been two decades in the making, a point where Jandek acknowledges the ridiculousness of his own myth, but still clings to his Jandek-ness as he does so.
		Jandek is a reclusive character/person/musician/myth from Houston, Texas, who has been releasing albums under a secretive label for the past 25 years.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/j/jandek.htm (1121 words)

	Jandek: Glasgow Sunday - PopMatters Music Review
		Jandek's approach is idiosyncratic to say the least: No chords or melodies; he speaks a musical language that has few words in it, and no grammar.
		Because Jandek's music is so intensely subjective, because it's so thorough a rejection of the music that's familiar and easily consumable, listeners are confronted with their own subjectivity to a degree that can be startling.
		But Jandek is unthinkable until you hear him -- and if you care anything at all about music as a form of the individual spirit holding out against the increasing conformity and commodification of all aspects of life, you'll want to hear him.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/j/jandek-glasgow.shtml (1149 words)

	2 Walls Webzine - music review - Jandek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jandek is a reclusive solo artist, and has been releasing similar works for over two decades.
		Typically, a Jandek CD goes for eight dollars, the price of which is lowered to four if you order in bulk and buy twenty or more.
		The number of people who will connect with Jandek's music pales in comparison to those who will simply disregard it as trash, but that connection is profound enough to make seeking his music out worthwhile.
	www.2walls.com /Reviews/Music/jandek.asp (628 words)

	Perfect Sound Forever: Jandek live in Austin, review
		Jandek's first live appearance was unannounced- he played a set at Glasgow's Instal festival in October of 2004.
		Jandek's lyrics in Austin, largely discernable, were grim and full of sobering imagery.
		As Jandek played, blue backlight threw a thirty-foot silhouette of the man against one of the Scottish Rite Theater's tan, curtained walls, an image that sent me scrambling to the mental rolodex, trying like hell to remember Plato's cave allegory from freshman philosophy class.
	www.furious.com /perfect/jandek/jandek-austin.html (905 words)

	SPACE CITY ROCK: Worthy Recluse -- Houston's Own Musical Mystery Man Jandek Steps Out of the Shadows. Kind of.
		Jandek, now in his 40s or 50s, recently stepped quietly into the spotlight again for a series of live shows in Austin and New York.
		"Jandek," of course, isn't the artist's real name, and though dedicated fans have determined that a man named Sterling R. Smith cashes the checks sent to the post-office box, no one knows for certain who Jandek is and whether Jandek really is Sterling R. Smith.
		Once in a while, Jandek sings with the off-key energy and angst associated with the early emo movement, but his vocal quirks are probably not deliberate.
	www.spacecityrock.com /issue10/jandek1.shtml (1048 words)

	[Jandek] Gateshead Sunday
		Jandek all in fl again, still alarmingly gaunt, same fl hat, fl guitar, lyrics on a lyric stand.
		There was some awkwardness near the beginning -- Jandek brought his guitar with him from backstage, and then had to spend a full minute or more untangling a guitar cord, with everyone on the edge of their seats watching, before he could plug in and play.
		There was a nice coincidental moment when she had crept up especially close to the stage with her camera, pointing it right up at Jandek, and the next line he sang was "Don't you come around me..." I could go on, but I need to catch a train to Glasgow now.
	mylist.net /archives/jandek/2005-May/001264.html (549 words)

	LCD 22 \| Jandek - The Original Disconnect
		Sometimes Jandek is backed by a drummer who seems unfamiliar with the kit, and who pounds away relentlessly with no ground beat.
		He adopted the "Jandek" moniker on his second album after discovering a band called The Units, with whom he did not wish to be associated.
		Jandek's ultimate mission could be to test the mortal limits of patience, tolerance, and understanding.
	www.wfmu.org /LCD/22/jandek.html (2170 words)

	feature :: Jandek on Corwood DVD :: october
		The story of Jandek - spoken in such a way that I am reminded of the mysterious gift-giver by the name of Boo Radley in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (yet Jandek remains unveiled) - is portrayed as one that nearly each guest on Jandek on Corwood agree on: please let the mystery remain.
		Jandek, who originally chose The Units as a recording name (and released one album, Ready for the House, later re-released under Jandek), makes music that the listener will likely immediately grasp or undoubtedly dismiss.
		Jandek on Corwood is set for US release on DVD November 23, 2004.
	www.sctas.com /janDVD.html (1445 words)

	Jandek: Discography
		Jandek appears to be a young adult in this photo — I think of it as the “badass rock’n’roll Jandek” photo, since he’s wearing a leather jacket over a sort of low necked T-shirt and has a chain around his neck (crooked: you can see the clasp on the side of his neck).
		Jandek hammers at his abused drumkit with locomotive rigor and intensity rarely heard in any of the previous recordings; of course, he inevitably loses control of the rhythm and sends it tumbling down the stairs.
		Jandek’s torso obscures enough of the door and mailbox to hide the house number — the man is nothing if not careful to cover his trail.
	tisue.net /jandek/discog.html (14784 words)

	Splendid: Departments: &: Jandek on Corwood DVD
		You're all too young to remember, but there was a time when Jandek, the Jandek, was a figure shrouded in mystery, cloaked in a shadow of his own design -- a musician whose recorded output, overwhelming as it was, took a backseat to stories of precisely who he was.
		I firmly believe Jandek is a clever marketer and that he timed his appearance to roughly coincide with the DVD release of the film.
		The cult of Jandek and Jandek on Corwood is, by and large, a boy's club, and Freidrichs is unable to present proof to contest this claim, apart from a couple of token female talking heads who get none of the respect of their male counterparts.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/&/jandekoncorwood.html (647 words)

	Jandek on Corwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jandek on Corwood is a documentary about veteran reclusive folk/blues artist Jandek.
		The film ends with the mention of the release of his 2002 album I Threw You Away; after the film's release in theaters, this album and its succeeding four releases are excerpted in a bonus feature on the DVD.
		The DVD release contains several bonus features, including an album cover commentary on Jandek's albums from 1978 to 2001, the full tape of the John Trubee interview, all of the printed reviews of Jandek's albums from OP and Option magazines, and other materials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jandek_on_Corwood (173 words)

	HoustonBands.Net - Jandek On Corwood
		I am further encouraged to believe that Jandek may not be pulling our proverbial legs by his willingness to play live and that fact that the live songs are just as rambling and bleak as the ones he released 27 years ago.
		Jandek has probably sent more free copies of his material to college radio stations and the press than he has ever sold.
		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.
	houstonbands.net /Feature/Jandek/jandek.html (1812 words)

	Jandek: About Jandek
		In some respects Jandek had reverted to the style of his earliest records, but in other ways his music developed and grown in many ways — the new records were obviously made by an older man.
		Jandek keeps his curtains drawn, as we are repeatedly shown from both the inside and the outside.
		The back covers of all Jandek albums are basically identical in format, although they vary in typeface and other minor details, as if they were done by a succession of different typesetters, each of whom was instructed to imitate the last one.
	tisue.net /jandek/discussion.html (5745 words)

	Jandek - Glasgow Sunday - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Live, Jandek is as frighteningly romantic as ever, his moaning over guitar distilled as unapologetic self-expression; the band is pure pendulum-swinging hypnosis, drums tumbling down concrete steps, the haze of an ostinato bass throbbing throughout, hovering possessed over fractured death-blues.
		If it was comforting and exciting to imagine his music as a transport to some unfurnished room of hot-as-hell passions unbridled, live, it’s unavoidable violence, like getting bug-eyed at open wounds in medical textbooks only to slide them down and see a mess of flesh, pus, hair, and blood in front of your face.
		The “I” in Jandek’s music is a distant, blurred image in your mirror, an apparition that begs for sympathy while remaining coyly behind all kinds of artist/audience barbed wire and socializing that trains us to recoil from the kind of brutal, witless love he embodies.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/jandek/glasgow-sunday.htm (605 words)

	Browse by Artist: JANDEK
		This record, like Jandek's 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'.
		Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song de-con, since the very late 70s.
		Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song genius, since the very late 70s.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/jandek.html (3063 words)

	Texas Monthly August 1999: Jandek and Me
		Jandek and Me He’s a cult hero to deejays and record collectors, but he won’t talk to the press–or at least he wouldn’t, until I found him in Houston.
		Yet Jandek seems to have conceived his music in creative isolation, almost willing his CDs to be filed in the bin marked “other” at your local record store—that is, if your local record store carried them, which it doesn’t.
		One of the first deejays to give Jandek airplay and open the lines of communication was Irwin Chusid of the alternative station WFMU in East Orange, New Jersey.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1999-08-01/music.php (1702 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Jandek *
		Jandek spent 26 years before Glasgow Sunday not performing live, avoiding journalists, and generally acting mysterious, so his first live performance — in Glasgow in 2004 — is cause for excitement, or indignation, or confusion, or something.
		All Jandek records sound bleak, in that his music is very hard to listen to and it's hard to figure out what his motivations might have been for creating it.
		Jandek is joined on Glasgow Sunday by bassist Richard Youngs and drummer Alex Nielson, neither of whom are from Houston, where Jandek probably lives.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2234 (544 words)

	JANDEK ON CORWOOD - film review and interview with Paul Fehler, PRODUCER
		The most outrageous Jandek theory is the "therapy theory", in which Jandek records all his songs at once as part of a 'therapy' session to help treat his manic depressive disorder.
		Quite a few of the early Jandek fans, fans from the early 80s, had to be prodded a bit to talk about these older theories because many of them seem so silly now.
		Silly or not, these things are rather important relics--more of the imagination of the Jandek fan community than anything else.
	earcandy_mag.tripod.com /jandekoncorwood.htm (1461 words)

	Jandek On Corwood - Movie Review
		They all admit that Jandek’s obscurity is part of his music’s appeal, but the lack of information about Jandek has made them suspicious about the motives of their hero.
		For one thing, Jandek’s own music is in the background of nearly every minute of film, which gives it a slightly off-kilter, foreboding feel (in this context, Jandek’s music doesn’t sound so very different from the incidental music in horror films).
		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 us as we move from subject to subject.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/jandekoncorwood (655 words)

	betterPropaganda
		The last couple of years have seen the star of the reclusively mysterious Jandek rise in a significant way.
		The release of the 2003 documentary film Jandek on Corwood was an accurate evocation of one of independent music's most individualistic, challenging, and productive artists.
		Jandek did his first public performance unannounced with no advance publicity or introduction at the Instal.04 Festival in Glasgow in 2004 as "a representative from Corwood Industries".
	betterpropaganda.com /album_page.asp?id=1040 (368 words)

	Jandek on Corwood (2004): Reviews
		Jandek plucks out his atonal efforts, and the record-store obsessives speculate about every subtlety.
		The mystery behind Jandek is still intact at the end of the eighty-eight minute-long film, but it’s diminished substantially because you feel like you know too much.
		Director Chad Friedrichs works around Jandek's never having revealed his identity by interpolating shots of the PO box and rocks on the beach with the talking heads of fans, critics, and journalists, and lots of Jandek's wistful, haunting music.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/jandekoncorwood (359 words)

	Jandek on Corwood (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like so many others I couldn't stop thinking "who IS this guy and what the hell is he all about?" The enigma factor definitely puts a different type of spin on his music, and after listening to quite a bit of it, I decided I was a fan.
		Here's why: Jandek's music is not all bad, some of it is quite good, and there are occasional random moments of transcendence that are SO good, it's worth putting up with everything else.
		Eventually we get a clear picture of what Jandek has done, and we form a hazy picture of who Jandek might be.
	uk.imdb.com /title/tt0381287 (462 words)

	Amazon.com: Jandek on Corwood: DVD: Chad Friedrichs,Byron Coley,Calvin Johnson,Barry Hansen (II),John Foster ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This successfully captures the singular Jandek vibe, as it unfolds like the mystery story that it ultimately is. Despite my admitted lack of objectivity, I found this one of the rare music related films that worked as a film, as well as it did an exploration of the artist.
		The film mirrors Jandek's successful self promotion, be it genius or simply sincere, by painting an eerie, enticing picture while infatuated talking heads, (record geeks, rock and roll writers, and a reserved, trustworthy, radio icon, Dr. Demento), speculate on his identity and music.
		The payoff is a telephone interview in which Jandek reveals himself as a normal, yet private and protective guy, whose dumbfounded silence, when asked a simple question, (a very funny scene), is indicative to the limits of his playful madness.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006FGHDS?v=glance (1404 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Jandek *
		Jandek has been doing this for a long time now.
		His growing legion of followers is probably more culpable in this whole affair than their idol, feeding off of crumbs of information where, in the place of a dinner table rests a vacuum.
		The answers to so many questions need to come from Jandek, not those who are designing their own fantasy gloom minstrel.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2634 (495 words)

	Jandek - Jandek on Corwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, in spite of, and because of his attempt to remain anonymous, Jandek has made himself into an underground celebrity by shrouding himself in the alluring cloud of mystery.
		Jandek's instruments are often played out of tune, and he pushes the limits of distortion, sounding at times like a stripped down Sonic Youth.
		JANDEK ON CORWOOD sets out to explore this question, using stark images of bare trees, rain, and bloodstained sheets as a backdrop for Jandek's stark, often troubling recordings.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/jandek_on_corwood/about.php (709 words)

	Jandek On Corwood \| The A.V. Club
		Since 1978, a man who calls himself "Jandek" has been releasing strange little folk records full of monotone acoustic guitars and a slight bluesy howl on his own Houston label, Corwood Industries.
		Freidrichs captures the mood of Jandek's music by alternating talking-head interviews with shots of abandoned houses and empty streets; at times, the documentary seems in on the hoax, with its evocative images representing secret clues.
		The DVD commentary track by Freidrichs and producer Paul Fehler mainly reveals technical details about how some footage was digitally altered, and only briefly alludes to any contact the filmmakers may have had with the artist (who, after all, had to give them permission to use his music).
	www.avclub.com /content/node/15848 (278 words)

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