Your Turn to Fall

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Your Turn to Fall
Your Turn to Fall cover
Studio album by Jandek
Released 1983
Recorded Unknown
Genre Blues/Folk Music/Outsider Music
Length 39:41
Label Corwood Industries
Producer Corwood Industries
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Jandek chronology
Staring at the Cellophane
(1982)		 Your Turn to Fall
(1983)		 The Rocks Crumble
(1983)

Your Turn to Fall is the seventh Jandek album, and was released as Corwood 0745. It was reissued on CD in 2001.

Contents

[edit] Overview

Your Turn to Fall marks something of a transition in Corwood history, for several reasons. For one, drums again appear on "John Plays Drums." Curiously, this turns out to be the same song sung by Nancy on "Nancy Sings" from Chair Beside a Window and which appears in a more standard acoustic/vocal form as "Birthday" from The Rocks Crumble. Here the principal artist plucks the guitar and sings, while one "John" plays the drums, something he doesn't seem to have done before, though the shambling rhythm produced fits the Jandek music style.

The rest of the album is, in a way, the end of an era. This is the seventh and final album in what might be considered Jandek's "first acoustic phase," and the remaining fifteen tracks build on the solo avant-blues of the prior four albums. Here Jandek steps more fully into the Delta sound of Charley Patton, though the songs are still picked on strings tuned to a peculiar "black key" sound accessible only to the player. He's also working on his voice, which uses more range here than on any Jandek release before it. Tracks like "If Your Fortune Fails You" (which echoes "First You Think Your Fortune's Lovely" from Ready for the House) and the opening "Liquids Flow to the Sea" feature very controlled, and often menacing performances. From here the focus would be on band material, a phase which culminates in 1991's Lost Cause and "The Electric End."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Liquids Flow to the Sea" – 4:14
  2. "Elementary Talk" – 2:24
  3. "John Plays Drums" – 2:28
  4. "No Time" – 2:00
  5. "You Don't Have to Entertain Me" – 1:53
  6. "Decree" – 1:51
  7. "New String" – 2:18
  8. "Echo" – 2:43
  9. "Centaur Train" – 2:26
  10. "Dance of Death" – 2:22
  11. "If Your Fortune Fails You" – 2:58
  12. "I'll Come Back" – 2:52
  13. "About Today" – 2:08
  14. "Such a Thrill" – 1:35
  15. "Didn't Have To Cry" – 2:15
  16. "They Knew My Game" – 3:12

[edit] Album cover description

The first color image since Ready for the House. A white painted writing desk of some sort is featured. Interesting that his first return to color film stock is so... "colorless"... very drab and bleak.

The frame is skewed... the surface of the desk dips to the left.

A acoustic guitar case lies on its side on the right side of the frame.

Plush blue... something... is in the left side of the frame... perhaps an ottoman... or two cushions stacked on top of one another.

There are three items on the desk's surface... they are all indiscernible.

The carpet is similar enough to Ready for the House to require comment... but dissimilar enough to preclude conviction.

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