Monday 21 January 2019

Jandek ‎– "Houston Saturday" (Corwood Industries ‎– CORWOOD 0813) 2013


So you think you're alive do you? Listen to too much Jandek and you'll wish you weren't.
Although, this improvised avant-rock outing in his home town is one of his best later period Jandek recordings. The representative really gets into his vocals,bordering on the 'rocking-out'.He even sounds a bit drunk??? However, my personal fantasy Jandek has to be an abstainer from alcohol,so i'll imagine he's just venting his recluses angst.....yep that works for me.
As unconnected as the song titles seem to be with the music,just reading the words has you asking uncomfortable questions about life,the universe and everything.....'42', right?...thats as good an answer as anything.
How do you know you're alive? How do you know you're not gonna be switched off at any second by an alien's claw when the programme has terminated? Is it all just a lucid dream in the mind of an indeterminate entity that some of the dumber parts of the dream call 'God'?
But Jandek 'Knows', and in the midst of this nebulous reality, so do we.
The answer was fleshed out at the Free Press Summer Fest, Houston, Texas, June 1, 2013 by jandek and uncredited rhythm section.
The answer is that there IS NO ANSWER! In fact the actual question is a bit vague,so stop searching and get on with the delusion that you actually exist.

Tracklisting:

1. I Know I'm Alive (35:18)

DOWNLOAD if you think you're alive HERE!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keep 'em coming!!

rev.b said...

What, only a half an hour?!? On second thought, that should be enough.

Anonymous said...

Well, here goes.... after following your Jandek Mondays since they began I am finally ready to actually give him a listen. Thanks?!

-Brian

Jonny Zchivago said...

Yeah, half an hour is more or less a 'single' in the world of 21st century Jandek.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Be careful anonymous....its abit like heroin.Once you start dabbling you become a fucked up addict. This ones a good place to start I guess.