5/02/2010

Jandek + Thurston Moore

Four days later and my brain is still trying to process this..."performance." And for those not familiar with Jandek's sound/output, I don't really know if description would be relevant or not.


After a very brief introduction, the lights went down and the stars of the evening entered from a door, stage right. They took to sparse, perhaps "minimalist," stage set~up consisting of a small stack of three amps and a stool, mirrored on the polar ends. Leisurely guitar set up, and it was on.
On one end of the stage, Jandek proceeded to play his usual, questionably~tuned metronomic style; and on the other end, Thurston Moore proceeded to make as much noise with his guitar (and various implements) as possible. No vocals. No structure. Just 90 minutes of barely contained chaos, by way of aimless guitar improvisation.
By normal standards, they technically played only three songs; but each of those "songs" were nearly thirty minutes in length.


And, like all of his other live performances, this one was officially recorded and will probably see an official Corwood release in the future.