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GIANT SAND – Off Ramp

celia — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:52:59 +0000

“Outtakes from the 1991 release Ramp”

01 Shadow To You
02 Approximation Of Joy
03 Nowhere (Howe)
04 Rampled
05 Dead Head Instead
06 Warm Storm Bridge
07 Endtro (Victoria)
08 Love (Victoria)
09 Arizona Bridge
10 That Vision Thing
11 Country Fare (Victoria)
12 Welcome To My World (Instrumental)
13 Dead Air
14 Blur Of The Sands
15 Over And Over Nightmare
16 Patsy’s Ballad

Total length: 47:29:16

Produced By Howe Gelb (except: 1 – Dusty Wakeman)

Engineered By Tom Minckley (Westwood) Michael Dumas (Venice) (except: 1 – Dusty Wakeman)

Recorded At Mad Dog Studios, Venice,CA + Westwood Studios, Tucson, AZ in 1990

Compiled from outtakes and leftovers from the Ramp session tapes by Jim Blackwood – Giant Sand archivist.

Transferred and Mastered By Jim Blackwood at AZPM, Tucson, AZ – 2009

Howe Gelb – Sings, Guitars, Piano

John Convertino – Drums

Paula Jean Brown – Bass, Sings

Joey Burns – Standup Bass, Bass

Indiosa – Sings (16)

Rainer – Dobro

Neil Harry – Steel

Tom Larkins – Shakers (10)

Victoria Williams – Sings (1,8), Harmonica (7), Banjo, Guitar (11)

(7,8 + 11 written by Victoria Williams)

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GIANT SAND – Provisional Supplement

celia — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:02:28 +0000

“Originally released in 2008”

1. Ballad of the Tucson 2 (inst.)
2. Dear Diary
3. Saturation
4. The New Romance of Falling
5. Love Knows (No Borders)
6. Dead Horse Blues
7. World’s End Park Bench
8. Harping Stomp
9. Shine on the Piano
10. Ok
11. Greyer on the Way
12. Ballad of the Tucson 2

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all songs by Howe Gelb

Howe Gelb: guitar, piano, harp + sung
Thoger Lund: bass
Peter Dombernowsky: drums
Anders Pedersen: lap steel + guitar
Henriette Sennenveldt: vocal track 4
Kent Olsen: drums track 2
Nicolai Lund: bass track 2
Frank Pontoppidan: 2nd guitar track 2

Recorded mostly by Kent Olsen
Mastered by Jim Blackwood

Cover drawing by Howe

GIANT SAND – Provisions

celia — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:20:43 +0000

“Release date: September 2, 2008 on Yep Roc Records”

01. Stranded Pearl
02. Without a Word
03. Can Do
04. Out There
05. The Desperate Kingdom of Love
06. Increment of Love
07. Spiral
08. Pitch & Sway
09. Muck Machine
10. Belly Full Of Fire
11. Saturated Beyond Repair
12. World’s End State Park
13. Well Enough Alone

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180 Gram Vinyl ~ NOW Available!
This luscious double-lp includes the full “proVISIONS” album AND a code to download the album digitally PLUS 6 bonus piano tracks:
1) Spiral (Live from Tucson)
2) Conditioned Air
3) Random Stillness Then Flame and Go
4) Tangulation
5) Alone and Nested Drone
6) Loss and its Hold on Us

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recent press

9.19.08 The Capital Times – Madison
9.17.08 Dusted
9.16.08 Village Voice – INTERVIEW!
9.16.08 Blurt review
9.15.08 Tiny Mix Tapes
9.12.08 Blurt – INTERVIEW!
9.10.08 Pitchfork
9.10.08 NOW Toronto
9.10.08 The Arizona Republic
9.5.08 KCRW
9.5.08 The Guardian
9.5.08 Tuneraker
9.4.08 Paste Magazine
9.3.08 MSNBC
9.3.08 Yahoo! News
9.2.08 UNCUT
9.2.08 SPIN Magazine
9.2.08 Popmatters
9.2.08 The Onion
8.31.08 Philadelphia Enquirer
8.28.08 Aquarium Drunkard – INTERVIEW!
8.22.08 Live Daily
8.22.08 Delusions of Adequacy
8.22.08 Blogcritics.org
8.12.08 Blurt Magazine

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INCREMENT OF LOVE

SPIRAL

GIANT SAND – Is All Over The Map

celia — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:19:33 +0000

“Licensed to Thrill Jockey Records. Released in 2004”

1. Classico
2. NYC Of Time
3. Remote
4. Flying Around The Sun At Remarkable Speed
5. Cracklin Water
6. Rag
7. Muss
8. Drab
9. Fool
10. Les Forçats Innocents
11. Napoli
12. Hood (View From A Heidelburg Hotel)
13. A Classico Reprise
14. Anarchistic Bolshevistic Cowboy Bundle
15. Ploy

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Napoli (LIVE)

howe gelb – guitar, pianos + singing
anders pedersen – lapsteel, electric slide mandolin + guitar
thøger t. lund – upright + electrical bass
peter dombernowsky – percussion + druma
john parish – drums, mellotron + national guitar
vic chesnutt – sings (13)
henriette sennenvalt – sings (13)
marie frank – sings (2,5,9,11)
scout niblett – sings (3)
sofie albertsen gelb – sings (2,10)
indiosa patsy jean gelb – sings (14)

Howe Gelb by John Parish
You know sometimes you hear a song for the first time & it clicks so immediately that it’s then impossible to imagine that it hasn’t always existed – “Classico” from the new Giant Sand album is a perfect example. I’ve recorded this song three times in a year – the two versions that bookend Map & a third by Italian legend Nada for her new album, Tutto L’amore Che Mi Manca. Howe’s lyrics on” Classico” and throughout the new record are typically unique, ranging from laugh out loud to painfully poignant, hitting all points bizarre in between. If there were only one person allowed to contribute further to the over-stocked pool of recorded music on this planet it should be Howe Gelb.

GIANT SAND – The Official Bootleg Series – Volume 5: Too Many Spare Parts In The Yard Too Close At Hand

celia — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 04:27:08 +0000

“Originally released in 2003”

1. The Calexico Audition, And Failing It
2. The Very Last Blue Marble Girl
3. Goldfrapp Tribute
4. Available Space
5. House Of The Punishing Sun
6. Hatch
7. Tom Waits Tribute
8. The Feel Of Original Leather
9. Colder Than Cool Enough
10. The Very First Blue Marble Girl
11. Rain Mixed With Parade
12. Loopy

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GIANT SAND – The Official Bootleg Series – Volume 4: Infiltration Of Dreams (Live)

celia — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 04:12:47 +0000

“Recorded Live from 2000-2002. Originally released in 2003”

1. The Farm
2. Sage Advice
3. Shiver
4. Seldom Matters
5. Spun
6. Johnny Hit and Run Pauline
7. Blue Marble Girl
8. Film Score In A Minor
9. Sunshine Of Your Love
10. Astonished
11. Delta Whip Around
12. Corridor
13. Le Finale
14. Static
15. The Beat Goes On

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GIANT SAND – Cover Magazine

celia — Sat, 01 Jun 2002 22:57:20 +0000

“Released in 2002”

1. El Paso
2. Johnny hit and run Pauline
3. Iron Man
4. Human _ Lovely Head
5. The Beat Goes On
6. Plants and Rags
7. Wayfaring Stranger_ Fly Me to the Moon
8. Red Right Hand
9. King of The Road
10. I’m Leaving Now
11. Blue Marble Girl
12. The Inner Flame
13. The Beat Goes On

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Howe Gelb – Vocals, Piano Things, Guitar, Bass, Harp and Clunk
John Convertino – Drums (1,3,5,7,8,9,10)
Joe Burns – Upright Bass (4,5,7,8,9,10)
P. J. Harvey – Vocals (2)
Sofie Albertsen Gelb – Backing Vocals (5)
Noah Thomas – Trumpet (3)
Neko Case – Backing Vocals (7)
Kevin Salem – String Stabs & Blur Choral (4)
Ari Posner – Congas (3)
Mike Grimes – Upright Bass (3)
Aaron Graham – Steel Guitar (3)
Nick Luca – Main Theme Gut Guitar (3)
Matt Ward – 2nd Vocal (3) Piano (6)
Kelly Hogan – Backing Vocals (7)
John Rauhaus – Pedal Steel (7)
Jacob Valenzuela – Trumpet (7)
Craig Schumacher – Harpoon (8)
Aaron Burtch – Drums (11,12) Bottles (13)
Jim Fairchild – Guitar (11,12) Bottles (13)
Saholy Diavolana – Guitar & Backing Vox (11,12,13)
Laureline Prod’Homme – Bass & Backing Vox (11,12,13)
Amelie Van Hoorebene – Bottles & Backing Vox (13)

Produced By – Howe and Craig Schumacher (more often than not)
Recorded mostly at Wavelab, Tucson
Engineered By – Craig Schumacher mostly and Nick Luca sometimes
Mixed by – Craig and Howe (more often than not) – 4,5,9 & 10 by Kevin Salem at his place in Woodstock.
Tracks 11 & 12 Produced by Harald Are Lund at Music Hall, Oslo – Feb 4 2001 – Engineered by Terje Hellem
Track 13 recorded at Studio Brussels Radio

About “Cover Magazine”…

“I think a time to recycle is called for. There’s plenty of stuff out there…too much. Perhaps the ozone does suffer from too many songwriters and their emittings slowly floating up and tangle up the atmosphere. This record needed to be choreless. It is mostly captured live in the studio, with the intention of seeing where exactly we (me, John and Joe) are with each other at the moment. A buoyancy occurred.”

-Howe, Tucson 2001

Reflections on each song by Howe:

1. “El Paso” (Robbins) / “Out on the Weekend” (Young)
-Welp, it seemed to one day that both songs had the same chord structure. When I tried it out, I was almost wrong, and so close to being right that I forced the issue. The lyrics to both, I realized after the surgery of such, reflected a similar patter of involvementÖWhy was the lonely boy packing it in? Why head out to LA? What troubles did he leave back in Texas exactly?

2. “Johnny Hit and Run Pauline” (Doe, Cervenka)
-X was such an importantly fun band for us in Tucson during 1980. We had the gumption to open for them back then. I cut the track here on just an acoustic guitar with an A/B switch to my amp, added some favorite radio white noise on the top, sprinkled on Polly (PJ Harvey) for taste. Specifically when I realized how young she was in 1980 and had therefore never even heard them before, I knew there had to be some kind of triangular fusing.

3. “Iron Man” (Iommi, Butler, Ward, Osbourne)
-One of the greatest songs ever written and oddly over looked for reinterpretation. I heard the ëLibre de Graseí boys playing their set one night and had an immense desire to utilize the piano with them. Bringing them in to attempt Ozzy became a kind of obsession. After the obtuse session, I realized the recording of my bathtub drain might fit nicely over the top. Ooh, hear how it mixes delightful with the congas?

4. “Human” / “Lovely Head” (Goldfrapp, Gregory, Norfolk, Locke / Goldfrapp, Gregory)
-John Parish gave me a record he played on while we were on tour last year. It was Goldfrapp. I hunkered down in the bunk with it for many a mile (those bunks are not unlike coffin confinementÖand very conducive to such a soundtrack.) Tania Bowers sent me a cd of her own stuff (Via Tania), and without telling John and Joe, while we were cutting the song, I played her cd a bit right there and thenÖwith one hand on the walkman and one on the piano. Nice fit.

5. “The Beat Goes On” (Bono)
-Somewhere in Spain a fine fellow driving us to the festival played this version of Buddy Rich and his twelve-year old daughter doing this song. I couldnít shake it. John, Joe and I sat around the studio like professionals for most of the morning, then got up and nailed this one in one take and took the rest of the day off.

6. “Plants and Rags” (Harvey, Ellis)
I met Polly through John Parish. They helped me out when I was trying to put together a tribute record for my friend, Rainer Ptacek when he was stricken with cancer. They did not know him at the time. I will always love them for that. And since have come to grow enamored with the spin of such a Polly.

7. “Wayfaring Stranger” / “Fly Me to the Moon” (Cash / Howard)
This was one of the first songs Rainer ever taught me back in the 70ís. It was with him in mine I suppose that it came across my fingers here and now. It was also the first song of the session without the mics completely set up yet. But how can you control such harvest? Late that night when everybody had left, and me and Craig were winding down, Neko (Case) and Kelly (Hogan) and her posse showed up to unload their equipment for their upcoming session. Perfect timing. They were all just road tired enough to mean it more than ever.

8. “Red Right Hand” (Cave)
-The wife again. She made me learn this one. Sheís so good to me, what could I say? Could be construed as an odd gloved Christmas tale of Saint Nick lurking the countryside.

9. “King of the Road” (Miller)
-This one struck me in Chicago just moments before the New Years Eve gig last year with Calexico. Ha ha ha. I donít know what that means either.

10. “Iím Leaving Now, Adios” (Cash)
-Johnny and Merle singing with each other. Who could resist? Great way to head out.

11. “Blue Marble Girl” (Gelb)
-I guess this is a cover now since it was on the solo record instead of a Giant Sand record. This evening was recorded on a big mobile truck in Oslo when we were opening for Pollyís tour then. Since Calexico were also on the road, I assembled this band with the darliní French girls from Candie Prune (aka Andice Rupen) and the good people of Grandaddy. A tear wells up with the memory.

12. “The Inner Flame” (Ptacek)
-Same as above, but this is one of the songs Rainer wrote during his final year here on the planet. The family reinvented and captured there in Norway.

13. “The Beat Goes On” (Bono)
-The very first thing we did was this radio show in Brussels on that PJ Harvey tour. We had no idea how or what we were going to do to pull off said tour. The boys beat the beer bottles, the girls wobbled their warble, the piano toyed with the motions. All in all a good omen.

GIANT SAND – The Official Bootleg Series – Volume 3: Unsungglum

celia — Sun, 07 Jan 2001 03:59:45 +0000

“Originally released as Glum in 1994. Reissued as Unsungglum in 2001 (remastered with additional tracks).”

1. Glum
2. Yer Ropes
3. Happenstance
4. Frontage Road
5. 1 Helvakowboy Song
6. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
7. Body’s A Boat
8. Remain Distorted
9. Water Fuels The Fire
10. Occupy
11. Painted Bird
12. Spun
13. Left
14. Faithful
15. Bird Song
16. The Professor

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GIANT SAND – Chore of Enchantment

celia — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:12:38 +0000

“Originally Released in 2000”

1. Overture
2. (Well) Dusted (For The Millennium)
3. Punishing Sun
4. X-Tra Wide
5. 1972
6. Temptation Of Egg
7. Raw
8. Wolfy
9. Shiver
10. Dirty From The Rain
11. Astonished (In Memphis)
12. No Reply
13. Satellite
14. Bottom Line Man
15. Way To End The Day
16. Shrine
17. Shiver (John Parish Remix) (Bonus Track – digital download only)

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1) Astonished (In Tucson)
2) Dusted (In Tucson)
3) Shiver (In Tucson)
4) Punishing Sun (In Tucson)
5) Bad

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Howe Gelb – Toys with guitar, piano and sung some hum
John Convertino – Drums some drum
Joe Burns – Strum bass strum
Juliana Hatfield – Backing vocals (6)
Sofie Albertsen Gelb – Backing vocals (9,15)
Jim Dickinson – Mellotron (2) Piano, Organ (11)
John Parish – Piano, Pump Organ (15) Door Shutter (16)
Kevin Salem – 2nd Lead guitar (3) Acoustic (4) Mellotron (9)
Susan Marshall-Powell – Backing vocals (4,11)
Jackie Johnson – Backing vocals (4,11)
William Brown – Backing vocals (4)
Rich Mercurio – Drums (4,9)
John Abbey – Bass (4,8,12)
Rob Arthur – Mellotron (4) Organ (9,12)
Nick Luca – Piano (5)
Neil Harry – Pedal Steel (7)
Alan Bezozi – Drum loop (8)
Scott Loder – Bass (9)
David Mansfield – Pedal steel (9,12) banjo (9)
Lydia Kavanaugh – Backing vocals (12)
Paula Brown – Bass, backing vocals (13)
Rainer – Slide (16)

VIDEOS

SHIVER

Giant Sand’s debut arrived in 1985, a corrosive collection of proto-grunge, roots inflected songs with original drummers Winston Watson (Bob Dylan) and Tom Larkins (Johnathan Richman) and bassist Paula Jean Brown (Go- Go’s). The band had morphed by 1990, when Gelb was worrying less about stylistic distinctions and John Convertino’s ability to cover the entire drum kit in a second or switch from sticks to brushes in the space of beat than in providing a platform for Giant Sand’s ever- changing line-ups to fashion something utterly unique. The band knew no boundaries as Gelb developed a personal lyrical vocabulary of hipster shorthand and sun-fried peyote visions, and discovered the improvisational joys of “instant composition.” 1992’s Centre of The Universe employed ex- Bangle Vickey Petersen and the Cowsills Susan Cowsill as go-go cheerleaders to create bubblegum country-rock. 1993’s Purge and Slouch was freeform, a nice contrast to the totally polished Glum (1994). After 1996’s live Backyard Barbecue Broadcast everything went quiet.

Howe’s longterm collaborator and original Giant Sandworm Rainer Ptacek was diagnosed with a brain tumor and Gelb’s time was occupied putting together a benefit album, The Inner Flame, with Robert Plant, a devotee of Rainer’s solo albums.

Slush, which Gelb recorded around that time under the name of OP8 with Convertino, bassist Joey Burns and Lisa Germano, was arguably the best album of 1997, but otherwise his normal creative torrent was drastically stemmed. Rainer passed away in 1997, and Gelb’s subsequent solo album, Hisser, was a low-key and elegiac affair, haunted by grief, ghost whispers of Rainer’s guitar style drifting through the grooves.

Gelb says of Chore of Enchantment, “The overall sound could be summed up as a mix of slow burning hot buttery Memphis moistness with the crispy quiet crackle of Tucson thirsty-ness. An attempt to serve up a saucer full of hitherto unpredictable predictabilities…as opposed to the usual platters of predictable unpredictabilities, ” he adds, with typical elliptical logic.

GIANT SAND – The Official Bootleg Series – Volume 2: The Rock Opera Years

celia — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 03:39:20 +0000

“Originally released in 2000”

1. Rock Opera
2. Dusted (In Tucson)
3. Astonished (In Tucson)
4. Hard On Things
5. Francoise
6. Punishing Sun (In Tucson)
7. Chore Of Enchantment
8. Seldom Matters Again
9. Music Arcade
10. Shiver (In Tucson)
11. Catapult
12. Dilemma
13. Not Good

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