Jandek - Six And Six

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5...according to our Brett on Fri 31 Jul, 2009.

That horribly detuned guitar can only mean one thing.. The mysterious Corwood have put out the second of their vinyl Jandek reissues and it's the turn of Six and Six, his second album, to get the treatment. I only discovered this guy relatively recently but now I can't get enough so I've totally lucked out with this little run of releases that will hopefully continue working its way through his back catalogue. Six and Six retains a sound and feel similar to Ready For the House (if anything, this is even more sombre) with the big old recluse singing and twanging his way through his sparse, idiosyncratic 'blues' numbers while sounding like he's the biggest outsider to have ever walked the Earth.. There's just something in the atmosphere he creates that's incredibly evocative, forcing you to picture the time, place and circumstances of the recordings. It's half the fun really and even the fact that he goes out and plays amazing shows these days (check out his weird improv-funk from his first hometown show on Youtube for one great example) does nothing to dilute the myth that's grown up around him.. If anything it's probably made him even more of an enigma. Hi-props.

Originally released in 1981, following a three year gap between the release of debut LP “Ready For The House”, Jandek’s second album “Six And Six” stands as an incredible document of the formative stages of his cracked genius. Following the astonishingly bleak tone of the first LP, the musical elements are almost catatonic. 9 songs drift by as a series of slight variations on several desolate, untuned acoustic guitar phrases. The meditative, steady music forms a dark backdrop for some of Jandek’s more vivid and poetic lyrical thoughts. Universal doom, loner dirges and sea-themed ruminations are all present. This is far and away the core of what was to come, in it’s most succinct and coincidentally most haunted form. This album was also the first to incorporate an image of Jandek on the cover, both giving a face to the sounds and hinting at what would become a prolific series of incredible, disturbed albums.
Vinyl for this album has been unavailable since the initial pressing ran out, and has been sought ravenously by collectors ever since. Working in direct collaboration with Corwood Industries, we’re thrilled to offer this exact repress, heavyweight-vinyl edition. An astonishingly ghostly album, unlike anything else and also unique to this particular phase in Jandek’s evolution, “Six And Six” is a crucial piece of the puzzle that we can only hope never gets solved completely. First time on vinyl in over 25 years / Limited Edition Vinyl Pressing / Audiophile vinyl press at RTI / Sturdy old-style tip on jacket from Stoughton.

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