03.10.11
Easthampton’s Flywheel was jammed Saturday night as area music fans took a rare moment to see enigmatic Houston musical project Jandek in the colour. While Jandek has been releasing albums since 1978, the first live discharge didn’t happen until 2004. At Flywheel, a characteristically uncomfortable set exposed a focus be of coherent vision rarely approached in the project’s gigantic recorded catalogue.
Jandek, the name of the music project produced by teeny record label Corwood Industries, is led by an anonymous ‘evocative’ (who himself is often mistakenly referred to as Jandek). When Jandek plays red-hot, this representative is often involved with an unpredictable cast of collaborators, chosen, in this for fear that b if, by a member of the Flywheel committee. Saturday’s concert was no against as the representative was joined by five musicians who respectively contributed pedal-stiffen guitar, fiddle, drums, banjo and vocals. The Assemblyman himself mostly stuck to bass guitar and vocals, occasionally adding a wheezy harmonica to the mix.
Source: The Massachusetts Daily Collegian