[Jandek] buying Jandek CDs in UK

Garry Brogden garry at brogd-n.freeserve.co.uk
Fri Feb 5 08:05:11 PST 2010


I've bought the CDs from Forced Exposure (link on Seth's website) - very 
reasonable P & P also.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Greenwood" <simon.greenwood at mac.com>
To: <jandek at mylist.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Jandek] buying Jandek CDs in UK


Volcanic Tongue (www.volcanictongue.com) usually has the discography in
stock, but there's no difficulty in ordering direct from Corwood
following the instructions at http://tisue.net/jandek/ordering.html.
International Money Orders, which you can get from your local post
office, seem to be acceptable.

Simon

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 17:55 +0000, Henry Holmes wrote:
>
>
> Hi, does anyone know whereabouts in the UK i can get hold of the
> recent Jandek albums like Myth of Blue Icicles  and the more recent
> Camber Sands one? Everyone is talking about them on here and they
> sound exciting and interesting.
> I am buying up the older ones on Amazon UK as they are only 2 or 3
> quid but they don't have many of the more newer releases...
> is their any good sites online that stock them at a reasonable price
> too?
>
>
> thanks!
> henry
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2 Feb 2010, at 20:57, Greg wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry that I have not gotten around to replying to this sooner. I
> > have meant to for some time, but have been very busy. When listening
> > to the Myth of Blue Icicles for the first time, I was very much
> > struck by the Glade. It seems to have all of the qualities of a
> > dream, but it's also something that seems almost menacing, or, at
> > the very least, despairing. It instantly reminded me of I Knew You
> > Would Leave on Six and Six, Interlude on Worthless Recluse (?), and
> > even the Cell, simply because we have a character lost in himself.
> > Though other people, presumably love interests, appear they don't
> > seem nearly as real as the man himself. But it's late, and this may
> > be the coffee talking.
> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Danen Jobe <danen1970 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Been meaning to get with the list on this one, but it's been
> >         crazy busy in my side of the world...anyway, if you like
> >         this you should pick up the other three in what's becoming a
> >         "modern acoustic" phase - and I say modern because these
> >         feel recorded now, almost beamed in directly after
> >         recording, in fact. At the moment we have the debut of this
> >         phase, which you note below, but that is then followed with
> >         "Skirting the Edge," "Not Hunting for Meaning" and "What Was
> >         Out There Disappeared." Am I the only one to hear a thematic
> >         connection between them? If you look at the titles of the
> >         last three it does seem to say something...almost an address
> >         of his mental state, but not simply the depressed side of
> >         that (which covered much of the last acoustic phase), but
> >         rather the intangible, the dreamstate, that which is
> >         reflected in the music.
> >
> >         This is, again, radically different from the LAST acoustic
> >         phase, though it's tied in a bit thematically with the
> >         utterly wonderful London Tuesday and even the "Khartoum"
> >         discs. But this is something else, and I do think the last
> >         four (studio) acoustic albums should be connected in a
> >         similar manner to the early phase, the middle phase (or
> >         "early CD era") and what has been known as the late phase -
> >         but that term doesn't work anymore. We've covered a lot of
> >         water under the proverbial bridge since then, after all. Do
> >         we call these the "mature albums?" Ugh. No. But the Beckett
> >         comparisons are back for me, the meta-sense of the artist
> >         aware of himself as an artist and communicating it. That's
> >         what "London Tuesday" is all about, but here he's not
> >         DIRECTLY addressing an audience in front of him, but rather
> >         a group of unknowns, and to these people he's unwinding a
> >         long and hypnotic dream state that concerns itself with
> >         romance (of course, Jandek is nothing if not a romantic.
> >         Then again, so was Baudelaire...) and spirituality to a
> >         certain extent, but maybe even more than that with the dream
> >         itself. Doesn't that seem to sum up the title "What Was Out
> >         There Disappeared"? What else is a dream save the
> >         intanglible, that thing you have for a fleeting moment but
> >         which vanishes upon awakening. Perhaps you hang on to a
> >         single image, but that's still a part of you, that dream, a
> >         piece of your psyche. Here, Jandek is giving that to us, an
> >         exposed subconscious with all the trippy imagery that goes
> >         with this, and yet it adds up to me to a reflection of life.
> >         And what else is Jandek music, ever, save a reflection of
> >         one person's life?
> >
> >         Okay, I don't know if that rant made sense but I'm not going
> >         to edit it - just thoughts. Point is, if you don't have
> >         these discs you should get them, and listen to them in
> >         order. It makes an interesting trip.
> >
> >         Danen
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, The Bear With The Thorn In
> >         His Side <doesabearwoof at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >                 Picked up Blue Icicles the other week, and finally
> >                 got around to listening to it.  Maybe it's some kind
> >                 of trompe l'oreille (trick the ear) thing, but I
> >                 find myself noticing actual riffs and repeated
> >                 things...
> >
> >                 Must post my sort of tribute to Jandek here soon
> >                 (youtube clip, www.youtube.com/timmybear, 'Jandek
> >                 Goes to Fremont, New Hampshire')
> >
> >                 "...men may become hairy as bears, if such is their
> >                 fancy, without fear of excommunication or
> >                 deprivation of their political rights." Charles
> >                 Mackay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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