Catching up with Jandek
August 29th, 2008 by Chad Radford in Music news
This week I caught up with Michael Goldman, who booked the Jandek show at The Acedemy of Medicine in Atlanta back in February of 2007. Much like most of Jandek’s sporadic live performances, the show is being prepped for release on Corwood Records, but no release date has been set.
In the meantime Corwood recently released a live Jandek show fromGlasgow Scotland in October of 2005, titled Glasgow Sunday 2005.
I asked Michael to weigh in on the CD and this is what he had to say:
“The great thing about Jandek is that you never know what to expect from the guy. His new and 53rd disc was recorded live in Glasgow in 2005 and titled Glasgow Sunday 2005, is likely to puzzle long-time fans as well as casual listeners. The record is comprised of two 25 minute-long cuts. The first, titled “The Grassy Knoll” works in two parts; a sci-fi narrative intoned over Loren Connors ’s Hendrix-meets-Fahey howling guitar and a paean to lost love that may be the closest to a traditional folk song as Jandek is ever going to get.
It’s oddly beautiful in the mode of much of his canon. The second cut “Tribal Ether” is a raving, free improv, freak-out featuring Heather Leigh Murray on lap steel, Alan Licht on guitar and the man from Corwood on drums. The high point here is Murray’s lap steel playing. She blasts a joyous atonal racket over Licht’s feedback drones and Jandek’s Velvet Underground style drumming. Fun stuff if it suits your tastes. Unbearable racket if it doesn’t. Glasgow Sunday 2005 probably won’t win him that many new fans. In fact, if you weren’t already a fan, this isn’t the record I’d recommend you start with. However, if you are part of Jandek’s small but rabidly devoted fan base, you’ll probably be thrilled with it since he hasn’t done a record like it before. With Jandek, that typically means nobody else has either.”
Here’s a video of Jandek performing “Real Wild” in Glasgow Scotland on Oct., 17th 2004 (almost a year prior to the recording of Glasgow Sunday 2005).
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