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DESCRIPTION:January 31, 2010\n7:30 pm\nMOBS at The Guild, 2828 35th St, Sacramento 
 (corner of 35th & Broadway)\nAdmission: $5.00\n\nJandek on Corwood\n\nEven 
 by the standards of underground and avant-garde music, Jandek is a man who 
 has pushed the notion of deliberate obscurity to the outer limits. Yet 
 Jandek has recorded 62 albums since 1978, self-released on his label, 
 Corwood Industries.  Prior to 2004, he did not reveal himself, then 
 suddenly started to do a series of live performances, billed simply as "a 
 representative of Corwood."  He sold records via ads in music magazines, 
 yet even the ads were mysterious: a white box with black text stating 
 simply "Jandek on Corwood" with the PO Box.  His music borders on being 
 indescribable, but terms like "spooky" and "haunting" and "out-of-tune" 
 frequently show up in reviews.  The film's press kit refers to it as 
 "cacophonous rock and suicide-note blues."   This film, from 2003, provides 
 an enthralling look at this extremely outsider artist who only ever granted 
 a couple of interviews via phone (one of which is presented in the film), 
 unraveling some of the mystery around him, yet not once featuring Jandek on 
 camera.  Features a plethora of music journalists and critics including 
 Douglas Wolk along with Dr. Demento, and plenty of strange Jandek music and 
 album covers.\n\nAbout Jandek's music: "How to describe the music of 
 Jandek? Like most amateur rock critics, start by comparing him to the 
 Beatles. Then strip away melody, catchy hooks, rhythm, and harmony. Next 
 toss out vocal and instrumental ability, along with any trace of human 
 feeling other than dull, lingering pain. Aside from these deficiencies, 
 he's exactly like the Fab Four." - Irwin Chusid, "Songs in the Key of Z: 
 The Curious Universe of Outsider Music"\n\nAbout the film:\n\n"A huge 
 success, proof that even this far into the game there are certain 
 semi-desolate corners of the underground that remain impregnable to 
 colonisation by the ever-encroaching monoculture and its accompanying 
 pressures and payoffs." - Wire\n\n"[has] a surrealistic aesthetic that 
 would make David Lynch proud." - Magnet\n\n"Shrewd, moody direction.  A 
 canny look at both sides of a musical experiment. Jandek plucks out his 
 atonal efforts, and the record-store obsessives speculate about every 
 subtlety. Theories abound about his love life, his mental stability, his 
 reasons for reclusiveness. Is he friendless? Is he on the lam? Is he 
 bipolar?" - New York Times\n\n"A smart cohesive film" - LA Weekly\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/23/18636035.php
SUMMARY:Screening - Jandek on Corwood - outsider music doc
LOCATION:Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild.  2828 35th St, Sacramento (corner of 
 35th & Broadway)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/23/18636035.php
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