Living in a Moon So Blue

Infobox Album |
Name = Living in a Moon So Blue
Type = Album
Artist = Jandek


Released = 1982
Recorded = Unknown
Genre = Blues / Folk music /Outsider music
Length = 43:15
Label = Corwood Industries
Producer = Corwood Industries
Reviews = *"OP Magazine", Issue S (unfavorable) [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0743 link]
*"OP Magazine", Issue T (favorable) [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0743 link]
*"Forced Exposure" (favorable) [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0743 link]
Last album = "Chair Beside a Window" (1982)
This album = "Living in a Moon So Blue" (1982)
Next album = "Staring at the Cellophane" (1982)

"Living in a Moon so Blue" is the fifth Jandek album, and was issued as Corwood 0743 in 1982. It was reissued on CD in 2001.

Overview

"Living in a Moon so Blue" is an album that's very hard to separate from its near-counterpart, "Staring at the Cellophane". Both albums feature the same parlor guitar on the cover (just from slightly different views) and the contents are remarkably similar, with Jandek delving further into the deep, anarchic blues while putting aside - for now - the female vocals and any instruments besides guitar, vocals and harmonica.

The albums are also distinguished by lean, blues-flavored songs with minimal lyrics, though these lyrics can run from brutal to humorously baffling ("Please don't push any buttons on this machine/On what machine?/Wet paint/Get out" form the entirety of "Bludgeon," for instance). The music itself runs from fast, rhythmic blues pounded out on the oddly-tuned strings to slow, picked ballads. The vocals are at times otherworldly, at times visceral, and at times barely there at all.

Track listing

#"Gretchen" – 2:48
#"One Step Ahead" – 2:12
#"Suppression" – 2:10
#"Strange Phenomenon" – 3:11
#"You Can Stop Now" – 2:20
#"Comedy" – 1:52
#"Sailors" – 1:46
#"Bludgeon" – 1:47
#"All in an Apple Orchard" – 2:32
#"She Fell Down" – 3:26
#"Professional" – 2:26
#"Anticipation" – 2:35
#"Alexandria Knows" – 2:32
#"Quite Nonchalant" – 2:15
#"Relief of the Night" – 3:19
#"Crime Pays" – 2:56-- () 16:03, 24 September 2008 (UTC),xfjalkjsflakjdflkjslkdj":SDi waz here:D

External links

* [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0743 Seth Tisue's "Living in a Moon so Blue" review]