Oh Shit! Jandek on piano warning!!!!!
As recorded in a Dutch recording Studio,with audience of eager applaudees, in Holland, the Netherlands,in somewhere called Tilburg,which, obviously ,is in the Netherlands.
He may not pass for an Irishman(he does),but if someone told me he was Dutch I'd say absolutely Dutch,... deeply Dutch.
Thankfully, its not just solo Piano tinkling, the man does his lo-fi improv poetry atop the bloody awful piano shit. Not kidding, but i reckon he should stick to the poetry a lot more.That stuff can empty any room of any normals, and leave only the kind of people we can get along with, pretentious art posers excepted....bastards!
This is also recorded in 2009,the most prolific year in Jandeks entire recorded life. So,did he die in 2009? It looks like it!?....are there any pictures of The Representative walking barefoot anywhere? Is he actually Paul McCartney? Probably not...its the voice, and probably the total lack of melody in his entire canon.
Yeah, he's dead alright, but don't think that's the end of jandek. There's a massive vault of jandek improv's that will take us clear into the next century. This guy is immortal.
Tracklist:
2 Like A Dot 6:05
3 Altar Of Chance 7:12
4 Flying Past Mountains 6:43
5 Outside Of Me 6:10
6 Dance The Trance 7:07
7 Reluctant Aversion 7:03
8 Shadows Of The Stars 11:29
6 comments:
I've worked myself through most of the Northern Ireland shows and that sounds pretty good: almost classical Jandek, badly played, which makes me happy. But the piano album is really bad. How can somebody who spent years in hiding impose such self-important lyrics on us? This is so bad that it's not even funny. Maybe unintentionally funny. Or is he taking the piss after all?
As ever thanks a lot for sharing!
Back in the day, Jandek piano albums were just fine. But ever since that guy got all famous-like, he's got no business being around a piano. As they probably say in some dark recesses of the interwebs, "He's no John Tilbury!"
No John Tilbury he may be, but haven't we forgot that the first thing that attracted us to the works,or otherwise, of one Jandek was the fact that he was soooo Bad? I still find it hard to come to terms with his modern output,most of which is pretty ...er...Good????
"Pretty good?" Suppose that's what I meant by "bad". But how should I know ...?
Pretty Good...except when's there's a piano involved I should have said.
I really like the singing on this album.. somehow feels like he has gone to a new level:)
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