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a now funkier Jandek played Houston (video), is playing NYU

Jandek @ Rudyard’s (via Breakfast on Tour)
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“The first ever live Jandek concert took place in October 2004. There have been 39 concerts total so far (1 in 2004, 10 in 2005, 9 in 2006, 10 in 2007, and 9 so far in 2008) and two more have been announced. So far the first eight shows are available from Corwood on CD, five of them on DVD as well, with more CD’s and DVD’s believed to be on the way.

To the best of my knowledge, official audio recordings of all the shows are in Corwood’s hands. Nearly all of the shows were also officially videotaped.” [Jandek Live]

The above blurb is slightly outdated. The “two announced” shows took place earlier this year, and there was at least a third that took place just the other day in Houston, Texas…

[We] had literally no idea what to expect at Sunday afternoon’s Jandek show at Rudyard’s, the first-ever public performance in Houston by one of the world’s leading “outsider” musicians (who just happens to live here). From the little he knows of Jandek’s prodigious catalogue, his best guess would have been a somewhat downcast solo performance on scratchy acoustic guitar. A one-song, 75-minute atomic funk explosion by way of the Knitting Factory was about the last thing Aftermath would have guessed, but that’s exactly what he and the rest of the crowd packed into Rudyard’s upstairs got

…And there’s more to come. Jandek will join New England drone duo MV + EE at DiverseWorks May 3. Aftermath has a hunch it won’t sound anything like Sunday, but he’ll be there just to make sure. [Houston Press]

I’ve lost count, but whatever the total is now, add one more: Jandek will appear at NYU‘s E & L Auditorium in the Kimmel Center on April 23rd (washington square south, 4th floor doors at 8, show at 9). The FREE show will feature a “dance performance by Biba Belle”, and “Tickets [will be] available to the public day of ONLY starting at 12:30pm from NYU ticket central (2nd floor of show’s address)”

Jandek’s 5th & 6th-ever concerts took place in NYC in 2005.

Who wants the funk? Check out a video of Jandek jammin’ at the Houston show, below…