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  • Howe Gelb & Lonna Kelly 'Further Standards' - Cargo Records UK

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    Howe Gelb & Lonna Kelly 'Further Standards'

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    The Standard Of Further: After a year of taking these new piano standards on the road, we now have a better sense of how they roll off the fingertips.

    As we enter our second year performing these pieces from 'Future Standards', the material has taken on the sonic patina of precisely the intention of the title.

    This new album now takes inventory by adding Lonna Kelley to several of the original tracks from 'Future Standards' to up'the previous standard.

    Further, it offers evidence of how these standards hold up live in concert one recent steamy night in London. But first this new album begins with 2 new songs: 'Presumptuous', recorded with mute piano and whispered warble, suggests heartbreak is a setup from the get go.

    'All You Need to Know', playfully interrogates the notion of love with suggested orchestration and yip. This album is meant to evoke its own lush standard a little further down the road in a future just a breadth beyond now. Howe Gelb, October 2017.

    'Further Standards' featuring : Lonna Kelley on Vocals, Howe Gelb on Vocals & Piano, Thøger Lund on Bass, Andrew Collberg on Drums, Naim Amor on Guitar.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Presumptuous
    2. All you Need to Know
    3. Clear*
    4. Irresponsible Lovers*
    5. Impossible Thing*
    6. Relevant*
    7. Sweet Confusion**
    8. Clear**
    9. May You Never Fall In Love**
    10. Irresponsible Lovers**
    11. A Book You've Read Before**
    12. Ownin' It**
    13. Terribly So**

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    1. Not the End of the World
    2. Gypse Candle
    3. Severe Seasons..

    * means recycled track
    ** means live version
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  • Howe Gelb 'Dreaded Brown Recluse' Vinyl LP

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    Howe Gelb 'Dreaded Brown Recluse' Vinyl LP

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    'A wandering troubadour in search of treasured happenstance, Howe Gelb is an enigma.' The Quietus

    Long out of print, Howe Gelb's debut solo album Dreaded Brown Recluse'is re-imagined on for Record Store Day on brown vinyl. Back then, circa 1991 Howe's main squeeze Giant Sand were nothing short of prolific, songs were oozing from every pore, their creative id was effervescing, overflowing. With Giant Sand's colossal new album of '91 Ramp'imminent what to do with those further outpourings?

    An idea: Disguise the band as Howe Gelb solo and produce a song cycle that, on repeat, melds into an eclectic stew that's easy to dip in and out of but still remains potent several hours in the oven. It's music as soundtrack to your day, a playful, anarchic piece of situationism that unfolds like all the best dramatic prose.

    Dreaded Brown Recluse'includes a rethunk Warm Storm'with strings (it also appeared on Ramp'). It also features songs about faxing (how quaint), blankets and the insect world, as it straddles territory lost somewhere between psychotic ramshackle punk and slimmed down acoustic reverie.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Spirit Lie
    2. Picture Shows
    3. Loretta and the Insect World
    4. Actually Faxing Sophia
    5. Cello of the City
    6. Still too Far

    Side B:
    7. Warm Stone
    8. Always Horses Coming
    9. Vigdis
    10. Vienna Two-Step Throw Away
    11. Bible Black Book II
    12. Brown Recluse
    13. Blanket for Tina

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  • Howe Gelb 'Little Sand Box' - Cargo Records UK

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    Howe Gelb 'Little Sand Box'

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    Howe Gelb 'Little Sand Box'

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    Here is the Little Sand Box, an 8 CD box-set featuring all six commercially released solo albums by Giant Sand frontman HOWE GELB.

    Each album has bonus tracks and alternative takes and also included is the Sno Angel Winging It live CD and a selection of piano pieces entitled Some Piano. The Little Sand Box includes liner notes from Howe, with an introduction from Sylvie Simmons, presented in a 48 page perfect bound booklet.

    Albums included in the Little Sand Box are :
    1. Dreaded Brown Recluse
    2. Hisser
    3. Confluence
    4. The Listener
    5. Sno Angel Like You
    6. Sno Angel Winging It
    7. Alegrias
    8. Some Piano¦.

    "The solo albums came about as an afterthought", Howe explains, "loving better the notion of hiding inside a band like Giant Sand for the rest of my life. When life demanded something else, then they began to happen." At first severely home-made and lo-fi with "Hisser" during the days when Rainer was critically ill. Followed by the depressing "Confluence" when everything turned to shit in the late 90s.

    And back up again and running fine with "The Listener", which began the resurgence of the sonic spirit during a surprisingly long stint in Denmark. That path would then lead to the sizzling season with a full gospel choir attached in Ottawa, Canada with the release of "'Sno Angel", and shockingly Mojo's 5 star praise of it. Next would come the most gratifying time spent surrounded with guitars in discovering the city of Cordoba, Spain and recording "Alegrias".

    This recording, the Spanish critics declared, melded indie-rock pluck with the prowess of Flamenco strum in a rarefied way that was heralded significant instead of the usual 'touristo' failings to marry Flamenco with anything. It also attracted one of Spain's most famous guitarists into the session, maestro Raimundo Amador. Cordoba felt like the closing of a significant circle, feeling more like home then home, due maybe to my own DNA and probably the originating point of what one-day would become Tucson.  

    The album was so wonderfully received in Spain and granted me a kind of peace, now in my 50s, to find myself in such exquisite company whereby the sonic pathways thru gospel and Flamenco all began with meeting Rainer (Ptacek)."
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