Archive for August, 2008
New Giant Sand album ‘proVISIONS’
August 30, 2008 5:12 pm
Experimental Americana pioneer Howe Gelb to release new Giant Sand album, proVISIONS, September 2
Tucson, Arizona-based musician Howe Gelb will release the first Giant Sand album in nearly four years proVISIONS on September 2, 2008. The work will feature friends such as Isobell Campbell, Neko Case and M. Ward.
‘Giant Sand is a mood,’ says Howe Gelb. The creative force behind the extended family that has comprised Giant Sand over the years, speaks of ‘yippity and happenstance’ that arise to inspire the soundscape that is Giant Sand. The musical family tree of the Tucson, AZ group is long and illustrious, beginning in 1980 as The Giant Sandworms and later spawning bands like Calexico, The Friends of Dean Martinez and OP8.
Howe Gelb has steadily amassed a prolific catalog of Giant Sand and solo material that spans the wealth of southwestern roots and lo-fi. Thick with musings scattered by desert winds, and soaked with eroding guitars and dusty piano, proVISIONS sonically explores love and loss in the socio-political climate of the modern world.
This incarnation of Giant Sand is comprised of Gelb, Danish musicians Thoger T. Lund (bass), Peter Dombernowsky (drums) and Anders Pedersen (slide guitar). It features talented friends/collaborators such as Neko Case, M. Ward, Isobell Campbell, Henriette Sennenvaldt, Lucie Idlout and Lonna Kelley.
A creeping cruise down a dark desert highway, these proVISIONS provide for the furthering ride of Giant Sand’s completely unique sonic legacy.
Pre-order proVISIONS and get two bonus tracks a live version of “Stranded Pearl” and “Dead Horse Blues”! The DRM-free MP3s will be available for download in your Stash right away.
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New Piano Album Now Available!
August 20, 2008 5:04 pm
Spun Some Piano
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by Howe Gelb
THE PIANO RECORD TRILOGY:
1. lull some piano
2. ogle some piano
3. spun some piano
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once upon a time in a land too far away to annoy
there lived a one eyed boy with a piano for a toy.
but the black keys in polly wolly doodle made the boy mad
and so he would never practice it and the piano got sad.
his mom thought it would be nice to paint the piano twice
much like an antique, white and gold, to be precise.
this did not help the boy to be persuaded to play
instead he ran to the river and the train to play.
some days the river tried to swallow this boy whole
but he was always able to escape, thank his lucky soul.
trains tried to shove him off the bridge more then one time
but he managed to save himself always in the nick of time.
the river would not have it and had a talk with the wind,
they conspired to find his home and invite themselves in.
but the boy escaped even that, though his piano it did not,
and ended up there all splintered in the stinky muddy rot.
the boy vowed then and there that once again he would play,
got another one with flood relocation money they gave away.
but no band would have him, thought his ear was made of tin
he left it all for the desert, and so again he could begin.
it made sense out there, minimal songs in a minimal place
the wind and sand adorning the inspiration of empty space.
eventually this boy would grow to record a piano trilogy,
so spun some piano is here now till he records 1 more then 3
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SPUN SOME PIANO features the piano music of howe gelb
with bassist thøger t. lund
and drummers peter dombernowsky and john convertino
plus a session with kent olsen and nicolai land
recorded in denmark and arizona
