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Jandek On Corwood

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Chad Freidrichs

USA | 2003 | 89mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

  Wednesday 15th | 2.30pm | Triskel Arts Centre

Can you imagine a world where press agents and publicists never tread? Where artists don't sell out for the corporate dollar? Where artistic freedom and control are a given? Where it really is about the music? Well, Jandek does! Since 1978, enigmatic Houston musician Jandek has been releasing strange bluesy, atonal albums. Some might even say they're beautiful. One thing everyone does agree on ' outside of the records, no one knows a thing about him.

Twenty-five albums down the line and no one's the wiser. Apart from the records the only other link to him is the equally mysterious Corwood Industries record label - for which he is the sole artist. Jandek on Corwood sets out, not so much to find the man behind the myth but to investigate how one person, about whom so little is known, can generate so much opinion. Simpsons creator, Matt Groening, is reputed to be a huge fan (what do you mean, you didn't get the intertextual references?), as are a host of left-field recording artists but perhaps Kurt Cobain put it best when he famously remarked, 'He's not pretentious, but only pretentious people like his music'.

You may not get all the answers you want

It's better that way - Corwood

Jandek On Corwood
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