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JANDEK
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JANDEK
A Kingdom He Likes
Corwood Industries
As an enigma's mystery disappears, what's left to retain our interest?
Stephin Merritt's frustration with Ferdinand de Saussure has roots in the 1980s, when the anti-career of Jandek doubled as a pop music course in general linguistics. With his no interviews/photos/live shows policy, the Houston (dark night of the) soul man enameled the signifiers that create any musician's biography. For instance, a cute, corn-fed blon...
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`Jandek' lets his music do the talking.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: PAUL SHERMAN Jandek on Corwood. Not rated. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Three and one-half stars (out of four) Jandek on Corwood is not the year's best documentary, but it's the one most likely to stick in your mind for days. Its subject is Jandek, a Texas musician who has been
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riffs; JANDEK'S MYTH DIRECTION
Pittsburgh City Paper
; Too often the velt of indie anonymity is simply a tool to achieve ends similar to those of rock-star bravado. Too often in the modern music world, cries of "no sellout" are simply the public face of private bathroom-mirror microphone posing. But to the select few who, for better or for worse,
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Who is Jandek? In recent years, the reclusive artist has surprised fans by taking the stage. That doesn't make him any less of a mystery.
The Boston Globe
; Pop Music He's released 48 albums, been the subject of a documentary film, and inspired a devoted cult following but, technically, Jandek doesn't exist. The man who makes the music on Jandek's records is officially known as "a representative of Corwood Industries." Corwood Industries is a record
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JANDEK
The Village Voice
; JANDEK A Kingdom He Likes Corwood Industries As an enigma's mystery disappears, what's left to retain our interest? Stephin Merritt's frustration with Ferdinand de Saussure has roots in the 1980s, when the anti-career of Jandek doubled as a pop music course in general linguistics. With his no
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Jandek: The Man from Corwood
NPR All Things Considered
; ... Time 21:00-22:00 PM Play Audio MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL ... interview. Thanks for understanding. Best regards, Corwood." For NPR News, I'm Chris Boros. SIEGEL: You can watch a video clip from the ...
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Mysterious Jandek magically appears in Hub at rare live gig.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: BRETT MILANO If you've spent any time exploring underground music, you probably can remember the first time you heard a Jandek recording. It didn't sound quite like anything else, and it didn't necessarily sound like music: Mostly it sounded like a guy with a barely serviceable voice
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Mystery makes the man and his music
The Boston Globe
; MUSIC REVIEW Jandek At: Institute of Contemporary Art, Friday night There is an argument to be made that Jandek's art isn't the sounds he makes so much as the mystery that surrounds them. Only the sparsest of basic information (such as his real name, which is probably but not certainly Sterling
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DVDs revive music films that shouldn't be missed.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: Larry Katz Ray is a rarity. Most movies with music at their core are box office poison and don't last more than a week in theaters. No surprise, really. Unlike the Hollywood drama Ray, most are documentaries or concert films. But thanks to DVDs, music fans can catch up with some easily
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 "The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Lousy or brilliant, the big question remains: Who is Jandek?
The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; ... Jandek once wrote in a cryptic note to a journalist. It's better that way. ___ (c) 2005, The Dallas Morning News. Visit The Dallas Morning News on the World Wide Web at http://www.dallasnews.com/ Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services ...
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Music, The Brain, and Education
Montessori Life
; Music emanates from headphones, accompanies advertisements on television, blares from car speakers, wafts through department stores, elevators, and hospital wards, and now even plays on stereos in classrooms. Certainly, then, we live in a musically active culture, a culture where music of all kinds
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