so.

i have kinda not tournaled here much huh ?

will attempt to remedy .. but then you tell me if its a waste of time anymore .. . i’m good with that .. either way .. i’m good

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so .. there was this festival of water there that decided to celebrate the deserts instead .. and so invited bands from various deserts around the world .. and in doing so .. for some reason .. requested that we come for it and bring 3 guests from our particular desert

ok

will have a think

then

thought .. and decided on these 3 fellows: brian lopez, gabe sullivan and jon villa .. 3 young and very promising players of the new crop of tucson yippity .. and since i had been messing with some local gigs there with them on several occasions .. it seemed a good bet to continue and see what happens in berlin

so

brian then requested that he bring in his friends to play violin .. 2 of em .. and of course that sounded like the way to go

when we got to berlin .. all from different directions, we found out that brian’s string section were also from aarhus, denmark, the hometown of the rest of the band in giant sand for the last 10 years .. that was a fine omen

peter and thøger flew in from australia that same day from their tour with isobel campbell and mark lanegan

and nik and anders came down from denmark

we all gathered then and there .. and with the string section willing to sit in with us too .. and with our 3 guests opening the show and then also sitting in with us ,. we doubled in size at that moment of impact .. we were now 10 instead of 5

giant giant sand

was born

and then for the final song that night we invited our new friend, the stunning dutch actress, carice van houten, to close the evening with a song i wrote for her

11 on stage made sense too

and that was the festival of desert bands for the night in berlin .. sold out capacity crowd .. and a set of songs, that i was pulling out of my hat as we went, that kept getting more and more vibrant and gravity surrendered to the yippity of the situation

quite a full night ..

and i think a new band was born out of it

thanks very much to the insight and creative spark of them wassermusik people of berlin

the end

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