With

Not to write on an artist, an oeuvre, but to write with them. With – writing of the whole of their life, of album after album it is as though you’ve lived that whole life yourself, that you’ve undergone an experience with them. As though, somehow, you were a limb of their work, that it unfolds also in what you write.

So with Jandek – listening to each album in turn, attempting to write on them (but all the while only taking notes for the long essay I would one day like to write) I feel the same creative wave that has passed through him bouys my small writing, too – that the event of his music making unfurls here, too on the other side of the world.