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Tracks:
Tell Me Who You Are (3'48"), Come Through With a Smile (5'52"), I May Not Be Around (2'03"), Pastimes (3'15"), Om (2'27"), Bring It In a Manger (2'17"), Walking Around (2'48"), Sense of Reason (2'00"), Remind You (2'32"), Corner of the Street (2'51"), Stick With Me (2'42"), What You Give Me (3'05"), You Sing a Song (1'33"), Walking Home (2'03")
Sous ce titre qu’on croirait tiré d’un haïku, ou inspiré d’une estampe japonaise, et avec cette pochette où l’on découvre un ‘Jandek’ dans une pose ‘jeune dandy’ presque inquiétante - ‘Somebody in the snow’ est un album en collaboration. Guitare électrique, batterie, voix féminine, voix masculines. Les trois premiers morceaux sont chantés par la femme - accompagnée de contusions de la guitare, et d’une batterie qui se débat comme elle peut. Le quatrième, un instrumental, semble un brouillon retrouvé de ‘I’ll sit alone and think a lot about you’ (dans ‘On the way’[1988]).
L’affaire se corse avec Om, le cinquième morceau : combien sont-ils à prêter leur voix à cet étrange a-capella, qu’on dirait tout droit sorti d’une antique catacombe ? Impossible à compter. L’effet, en tout cas, est saisissant : l’impression d’être à l’écoute d’une chorale de spectres, réunis à l’occasion d’on ne sait quelle cérémonie secrète. Ou prière bouddhiste chantée par un chœur bulgare ?
La suite montre que Corwood ne dédaigne pas les joies de la stéréophonie, et de la séparation nette des canaux : ainsi, des plages nous sont offertes où ce n’est plus un Jandek qui assure le chant, mais…deux ! Jeu de cache-cache avec lui-même, non-dénué d’une certaine auto-dérision.
Le rustique ‘Bring it in the Manger’ mérite un petit détour. Censé décrire le scène de la Nativité, ce court morceau (dominé par un harmonica, par une voix qui fait ‘pom-pom-pom’ et par la narration narquoise de Jandek) nous plonge dans une succession délirante d’images crues, où notamment les animaux bibliques sont remplacés par un vautour et un aigle - et où la vierge décharnée offre à ce dernier ses ‘genitals’ (dans une coupe en papier !), son âme et un arc-en-ciel. Le tout finissant dans un obstétrical ‘push a baby from these legs’ et par l’injonction qui est faite (à l’aigle ?) de porter tout çà à la Crèche…
Il faudrait certainement plus d’un psychanalyste pour décortiquer le ‘contenu latent’ de ‘Bring it in the Manger’. En attendant, mieux vaut éviter d’en faire état en famille, à l’occasion du proche réveillon de Noël. (Phasme)

 

 

Tell Me Who You Are
[Jandek] All right all right all right all right
It’s all right
I had a dream
Came to me twice
I had a dream
I had a dream
Came to me twice
[woman] I had a nightmare
[Jandek] Oh, your voice came in the night
[woman] Show me what is there
[Jandek] It was oh so nice
In the night
[woman] Was it a plastic dream?
[Jandek] Tickle myself in your arms
Just once, just once, one night
[woman] Fallin’ into corners
I’m Fallin’ in the street
[Jandek] Just come and tell me
Who you, who you are
Just tell me tonight
[woman] Tell me about your fantasy
Give me your doorway
[Jandek] I had a dream
Came to me twice
[woman] I grasp it lightly
Then I grasp it hard
[Jandek] When you first came to me
I lost it, in the night
Won’t you return?
[woman] Tell me that it’s orange, tell —

Come Through With a Smile
Fear Jesus Christ
Ah, don’t fear what you have to do
He didn’t fear what he had to do
I’ll give it back tomorrow
I’ll give it back, all your sorrow
For what it’s worth to you
Come on through with a smile
Come on though and dance awhile
I want the sky with me
Oh, I wanna feel flat (?) color
And the light in the morn’
???
One more time with one more dime
Just one more smile, just one more child
Just one more for me
Just come out to the land of sand and blue-green birds
And we’ll fly all the time
All the night
We’ve got style
We’ve got our own mind
We’ve got our own heart
We’ve got our own time
And it’s not the same as for you
It’s not the same as for you
Changes are comin’, changes are comin’
Changes come, changes are comin’
You’ll never be inside
You’ll never be the one
Like ??? streets in brown instead of blue
Instead of blue
Forest turns green, forest turns blue
Forest turns black, and I’m with you
Forest turns brown
Comes runnin’, comes rainin’, comes lightnin’
Comes thunderin’ [3x]
A flash of blue
Never comin’ back [7x]
I’m goin’

I May Not Be Around
Da da da da da da
Da da da da da da
Fire in the hole (?)
???
???
Count me once
Count me twice
You better not count me three times
You better just wait and see
I may not be around for long
I’m takin’ the next train or plane
To right
To wrong
To right
To wrong
I’m gonna ??? to ??? be a ???
??? while you’re missing me ??? with me
You’re gonna miss me oh lord
I know you’re missing me
But I’m, I’m nowhere at all
???
Switching ???
Switching ???
???
???

Bring It In a Manger
You questioned her legs, spread on the table
Vultures that prey in her bosom, cursed her questions
Said she was dead anyway
A virgin mild scream
She wasn’t dead, just wasted
Said I’ll find a true eagle some day
Give him my genitals in a paper cup
Give him my soul and rainbow
Lie (?), sing this song
Take a god (guard?) from his list
Push a baby from these legs
Bring it to him in a manger

Walking Around
I wasn’t making sense, ???
Some of us are making ???
Some of us ???
Caught between the lies
???
??? deeper blue, a lighter hue
I wish I could learn
I wish I would burn my ???
I’m walking away
Into a new day
I’m walking around
’Cause the towers of Babylon
Have fallen down
???
Fallen down
???
I can feel dust
I can feel its ugly touch
I’m going away
I’m going away
Going away
To the day
You can’t call it Monday
You can’t call it Friday
You can’t call it anything at all


 

Sense of Reason
Did you ever think about me?
Did you ever say my name?
Did you ever want to be me?
Aw, did you ever, did you ever
Oh, baby, now that I’m without you
I can’t help but think about you
You took away my sense of motion
You took away my sense of time
I lost my very reason

Remind You
[right channel] I got fifteen jokers hot as lead
[right channel] I got a Kodak camera in my head
[left channel] I been on the Bowery
[left channel] Been on Beacon Hill
[left channel] I ain’t got no money
[left channel] Oh Jesus, I never will
[right channel] I got the right of way down a one way street
[right channel] I click a finger to the beat
[left channel] You got all money
[left channel] Why you want me too
[right channel] From before and what’s more
[left channel] I ain’t got no money
[left channel] What you want me to do
[right channel] I got you
[left channel] Where you put your laundry
[left channel] I ain’t never been
[left channel] All I got‘s my shoes
[left channel] They took me where I been
[right channel] You’re the dream I been dreamin’
[left channel] And are you serious when you say my name
[left channel] Saw you something (?)
[left channel] I know I ain’t playin’
[left channel] So I’ll say goodbye
[left channel] Hope you knew I came
[left channel] Just to remind you [2x]
[right channel] You’re the cast of my eye
[right channel] Yes, you’re the catch of the season

Corner of the Street
Well I read about your bargain basement
At the corner of the street
And about the strangers fawning
At the sidewalk and your feet
While running, try to meet me
At the edge of the dawn
Where you saw the sun come rollin’
Across the meadow lawn
You saw the sun come rollin’
Across the meadow lawn
You were runnin’
Tried to meet me
At the edge of the dawn
And about the strangers fawning
At the sidewalk and your feet
Well I read about your bargain basement
At the corner of the street

Stick With Me
Steven, don’t you know that I be breathin’
Steven, I wish you weren’t leavin’
Steven, you got me believin’
Steven, aw I wished you were deceivin’
Steve, don’t leave
Steve, don’t make me grieve
Steven, I’ll fall in love with my friend
And when you wanna bargain
You’ll have to forgive my (???)
Please Steve
Think it over, give me another chance
Steve, don’t leave
Don’t leave me Stevie
Come on, stick with me

What You Give Me
You give what you give me
And I get a lot
You give what you give me
Christ told Moses
On a merry old day
You got work to do
I can’t chase no one person
Mess me up, and I ain’t no good
There’s lots of people and lots of ???
You give what you give me
I got to tell you
I take what I want
I don’t take nothin’
You can take what you want
You give what you give me

You Sing a Song
I paint a picture, you got a gallery
I got ??? time, you got a motion
I look at the wall, you say a prayer
I look for a number, you got them all hidden
I got the door, you got the mirror
I sing a song, you got the mouth
I got a mirror, I got a gallery
I got a motion, I got a mouth
I keep them all hidden, I say a prayer
You look at the wall, you paint a picture
You messin’ with time, you look for a number
You got a door, you sing a song

Walking Home
Hey sit back, it’s easy
Well sit back, it’s easy
Well sit back, and it’s easy
Well sit back, and it’s easy, easy, easy
Yes, once again
A-hah, sit back, and it’s easy
Sit back and it’s easy
Sit back, whoo
???, it’s easy