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Jandek On Corwood
''Jandek on Corwood'' is a documentary about veteran reclusive folk/blues artist Jandek. Unlike most popular music documentaries, the subject himself is not seen in the film in any way; instead, various critics, disc jockeys and journalists, many of whom have had some contact with the notoriously reclusive artist, discuss Jandek, his equally mysterious independent record label Corwood Industries, and his music (which reached 39 albums at the end of 2004). While Jandek himself does not appear in the movie (except in the form of the pictures on many of his album covers and in excerpts from the only phone interview he has ever done in his career, with musician and writer John Trubee for ''Spin Magazine'' in 1985), he did authorize and endorse the project through Corwood Industries (any correspondence to the artist is usually signed "Corwood" rather than "Jandek"), allow the filmmakers to use whatever recordings from his discography they saw fit, and suggest people that could be inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Pig Gold
Gary Pig Gold (born May 30, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, author and journalist. His fanzine ''The Pig Paper'' was Canada's second independently published music magazine, and among the recording artists he has worked with are Pat Boone, Dave Rave, Endless Summer, Simply Saucer and Shane Faubert. Gold has written many books on popular music and has contributed to dozens of magazines as well as seven books in the multi-genre MusicHound album guide series. AllMusic describes him as "rock music's all-time hardest-working man ... with all apologies to James Brown". Early career He formed his first band, Pornographic Cornflake (named after "I Am the Walrus" lyric) at age thirteen, and his first 16mm film made four years later, a documentary about his hometown entitled ''This is Port Credit!'', was chosen to be aired on a local PBS Television affiliate after winning an award at a high school film competition. Due to its libelous nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Corpse
''Blue Corpse'' is the fifteenth album by Jandek, and his second for 1987. Primarily an all acoustic album with an unknown accompanist (identified only as "Eddie" during the instrumental break in "Down at the Ball Park"), it is considered by many to be one of the more accessible and cohesive albums in Jandek's oeuvre. Album cover The cover of Blue Corpse completes the series of images that began with ''Telegraph Melts'' (1986) and was continued with ''Modern Dances'' (1987). While the cover of ''Modern Dances'' shows the artist standing still and looking forward, the cover of Blue Corpse shows the artist in mid stride, producing a blurred image of the artist. Album information The tracks "I Passed by the Building" through "Variant" features an unknown man on lead vocals, and it is presumed that Jandek plays the guitar on these tracks. The tracks "Part II" through "Only Lover" appear to switch up this arrangement and feature Jandek on lead vocals and the unknown accompanist playi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Independent Films
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2003 Films
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2003 by worldwide gross are as follows: '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' grossed more than $1.14 billion, making it the highest-grossing film in 2003 worldwide and in North America and the second-highest-grossing film up to that time. It was also the second film to surpass the billion-dollar milestone after ''Titanic'' in 1997. '' Finding Nemo'' was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time until being overtaken by ''Shrek 2'' in 2004. Events * February 24: '' The Pianist'', directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. * June 12: Gregory Peck dies of bronchopneumonia. * June 29: Katharine Hepburn dies of cardiac arrest. * November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Governor of California. * December 22: Both of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Town (Jandek Album)
''New Town'' is the 27th studio album by the folk band Jandek Jandek is the musical alias of Houston, Texas based lo-fi folk singer Sterling Smith. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 45 albums without granting interviews or providing any biographical information, releasing on a self-made lab .... It was released in 1998 on Corwood Industries. The album consists of Jandek's vocals and mostly guitar instrumentation. Track listing Reviews External linksSeth Tisue's ''New Town'' review {{Authority control Jandek albums Corwood Industries albums 1998 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Cause (Jandek Album)
''Lost Cause'' is the 21st album by Jandek Jandek is the musical alias of Houston, Texas based lo-fi folk singer Sterling Smith. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 45 albums without granting interviews or providing any biographical information, releasing on a self-made lab ..., and his only of 1992. Corwood Industries release #0759, it marks the end of the "electric phase". It features a little of all the styles on the previous 20 albums, and ends with a sidelong abstract improvisation called "The Electric End." Track listing Reviews Side one has seven non-datable tracks of depressed blues-destroying ramble... Early optimism on the opening tracks transmutes into full desolation by the closing hack-gulps at the end... “The Electric End” is a 19-plus minute excursion into frothful extremes. Piercing electro-search guitar, revolutionary ultra-primitive drumming, lost-mind vocalism of real cracked creation and some sort of high end squeal (a penny whistle?) c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Box Requiem
''White Box Requiem'' is the 25th album by Jandek, and his only for the year 1996. Released as Corwood Industries #0763, it is essentially a "concept album" about death, loss, and a man who opens a mysterious white "Pandora's box", which some have speculated is a coffin. There are 14 songs with acoustic guitar, half of them with vocals. The instrumental pieces are sparse and experiment with echo, with "restless" passages that music critic Andre Salles has described as "consistently inventive atonal plonking that never sits still". After not releasing any music in 1995, Jandek returned with ''White Box Requiem'' the following year. According to a rare interview with Jandek that appeared in ''The Wire'', the album had originally been planned as a song-by-song response to ''Exile in Guyville'' by Liz Phair. Track listing Reception Writing for AllMusic, Skip Jansen calls the album a collection of "fractured songs...drenched in the atonal ambience that makes his contribution su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Woke Up
''I Woke Up'' is the 26th album by Jandek Jandek is the musical alias of Houston, Texas based lo-fi folk singer Sterling Smith. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 45 albums without granting interviews or providing any biographical information, releasing on a self-made lab ... and his only release of 1997. Released as Corwood Industries #0764, it introduced (for the first and last time) a new male vocalist who sings most of the tracks. Track listing Reviews More existential twang, strum, holler, and moan. Of course, a shylock like Will Oldham gets laid a lot when he pulls this trick, so it's patently unfair that Texas recluse Jandek doesn't get those same dumpy groupies. -- Fred Mills ''Magnet'' #31 External linksSeth Tisue's ''I Woke Up'' review {{Authority control Jandek albums Corwood Industries albums 1997 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Way (Jandek Album)
''On the Way'' is the seventeenth album by Jandek Jandek is the musical alias of Houston, Texas based lo-fi folk singer Sterling Smith. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 45 albums without granting interviews or providing any biographical information, releasing on a self-made lab ..., released in 1988 as Corwood 0755. It was reissued on CD in 2002. Track listing External links Seth Tisue's ''On the Way'' review {{Authority control Jandek albums Corwood Industries albums 1988 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine-Thirty
''Nine-Thirty'' is the tenth album by Jandek Jandek is the musical alias of Houston, Texas based lo-fi folk singer Sterling Smith. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 45 albums without granting interviews or providing any biographical information, releasing on a self-made lab ..., one of two released in 1985, and was released as Corwood 0748. It was reissued on CD in 2001. Track listing References External linksSeth Tisue's ''Nine-Thirty'' review {{Authority control 1985 albums Corwood Industries albums Jandek albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Put My Dream On This Planet
''Put My Dream on This Planet'' is the 29th album by Jandek. It was his only new release of 2000 (note that there were numerous reissues of the oldest material). The first of three consecutive a capella albums, it is Corwood Industries #0767. Initially thought by fans to have been recorded on a voice-activated microcassette recorder, Jandek clarified in his 2014 cover interview for ''The Wire'' that he recorded this album, as well as the two a capella followups, ''This Narrow Road'' and ''Worthless Recluse'', on a standard consumer-grade cassette recorder, and that the pauses in the recording were removed per his request with a noise reduction gate during the mastering stage. Critical reception ''Exclaim!'' wrote that "Jandek sounds old, with a deep, grainy, Johnny Cash-like voice that appears to be recorded by a portable microphone, as opposed to a crisp studio recording." ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |