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1994s Glum was to be Giant Sand s largest record and in order to make it so, Howe Gelb invited everyone along to the party. This carnival help create Giant Sand s best record to date and Glum is now proudly re-issued by Fire. Howe Gelb explains Glum s story, This was our best record for a long time. It had Malcolm Burn producing it with me and it was done up at Daniel Lanois' studio in New Orleans. Since it was our ¬rst big budget session, I tried to get everyone who ever took part on a Giant Sand record to come to Dan's mansion and stay and be on the record somewhere. This made the atmosphere in the house more entangled then it had to be, but seemed like the way it should be. For some reason I began singing like an old man on this record, or maybe was inspired too much from my new talking distortion pedal on my guitar. At the moment this record was due to be released, the label shut down its operations and it got lost. but these things have a life of their own. (I wrote 'faithful' for Marianne, whom I just met through our label rep, kate Hyman. When she heard it she said: "but Howe, where is the melody ?") ... and that's the story of my life. Giant Sand is a mood, says Howe of Giant Sand, as if trying to o er a low-key explanation for his dizzying array of artistic exploration that includes a back-catalogue of some 40 albums as a singer, band-leader and producer. After growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1970 s, it wasn t until he moved to Tuscon, Arizona that he met his musical soul mate, the guitarist Rainer Ptaceck. The two formed Giant Sandworms and issued only a handful of recordings before the worms were put to rest: since then, Giant Sand have released 24 albums - an impressive haul when considering Howe s equally proli¬c output under other projects including Black Ranchette and Arizona Amp & Alternator as well as his solo releases. Re-issues: Fire Records will be releasing all 25 records by Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, Arizona Amp & Alternator, Band of Blacky Ranchette.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Country Gothic Alternatively beautiful
20 July 2005
Format:Audio CD
Giant Sand is a band that has not been credited for it's contribution to music.
They have amazing albums and Glum is no different.
Its a great album and it's a pity that it is not available anywhere. If you are interested you can visit giant sand's official site and purchase : UnsungGlum
It's the album that most people really want so Giant Sand sell it only in the site plus the cd includes 3-4 bonus tracks.
If you like Giant Sand buy this!
If you are new to them try Chore of Enchantment.
Howe Gelb (head), also recorded an album with the name :
Band of Blacky Ranchette, which is amazing , and also an album with Lisa Germano singing called OP8.
Best tracks here : Glum, Left
But all songs are great.
Hope i helped.
P.s Howe Gelb is one crazy dude.. , so its either u like him or not. The guy is takin his risks and does what he loves most. Creating original beautiful music.
They have amazing albums and Glum is no different.
Its a great album and it's a pity that it is not available anywhere. If you are interested you can visit giant sand's official site and purchase : UnsungGlum
It's the album that most people really want so Giant Sand sell it only in the site plus the cd includes 3-4 bonus tracks.
If you like Giant Sand buy this!
If you are new to them try Chore of Enchantment.
Howe Gelb (head), also recorded an album with the name :
Band of Blacky Ranchette, which is amazing , and also an album with Lisa Germano singing called OP8.
Best tracks here : Glum, Left
But all songs are great.
Hope i helped.
P.s Howe Gelb is one crazy dude.. , so its either u like him or not. The guy is takin his risks and does what he loves most. Creating original beautiful music.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
GIANT GIANT SAND!
26 July 2008
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This took me back to early Giant Sand. I really enjoyed this one Howe! Your early stuff is still the best.
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