Howe recorded this record with the help of a Canadian gospel choir called Voices Of Praise, but this isn't gospel music. Said Gelb, "It was a grand experiment to see if we could mesh the sounds of the muck I make with the dizzying effect of the glorious sound [the choir] makes." While recording during an Ottowa winter, Howe was inspired by the drastic beauty of snow and a cold not often felt in Tucson. The image of a snow angel stuck with him as a symbol for the record and what he was trying to create. Arca   [ read more ]

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Frontman for Giant Sand and OP8, Howe Gelb has been called "the most resilient and consistently inventive American artist of the last two decades." Confluence is his latest solo album and the follow up to 1998's Hisser (V2). That album was a low-key and elegiac affair haunted by the memory of Howe's longtime friend and collaborator Rainer Ptacek, who had passed away a year earlier. While Confluence retains some of it's predecessor's heartrendingly intimate atmosphere, the overall result is something altoget   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Welcome to the mind of Howe Gelb. Howe's new cd, The Listener, is a peek at yet another stirring image from Howe, who has for more than two decades painted with a canvas of music and words. While both often times seemed to defy any sequential logic, it's hard to argue with a career that through it's many incarnations- Band of Blacky Ranchette, Giant Sand, OP8, to name but few-has remained vibrant and vital, always taking chances along the way. The Listener is no different. It focuses on Howe's rec   [ read more ]

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The second in a series of solo piano compositions from Giant Sand frontman and acclaimed singer/songwriter, Howe Gelb. (The first piano record is out-of-print and highly sought after.) Nineteen tracks that combine elements of classical, jazz, and honky-tonk -- many of which can be traced in fragments as far back as Giant Sand's 1992 "Center of the Universe" record.

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