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  • Death And Vanilla 'California Owls EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'California Owls EP' Vinyl 12" - Translucent Green

    £13.99

    4 track EP cut at 45rpm on green vinyl. 1000 copies worldwide.

    'Sweet psychedelic pop from your new favourite Swedes.. nocturnal track, California Owls is hypnotic, this is dream pop at its absolute best.' i-D

     

    'Our dreamiest pick this week - ¦ "California Owls," pairs reverb-soaked vocals with a harpsichord-like synth that sounds like sunlight filtered through water.' NPR

    'California Owls' could almost be Beach House. At least until it descends into a two-minute cascade of bird noises. Enchanting stuff.' Loud & Quiet / 'Nilsson's vocals bob in an ocean of reverb on California Owls'evoke everything from Czech cinema soundtracks to The Velvet Underground channelled through their uniquely distorted lens' Clash

    'California Owls,' a tidy three and a half minutes of airy-pop gorgeousness followed by two more combining chirping birds and tones reminiscent of a distant calliope amidst the reliable retro-futurism.' The Vinyl District

    Following the success of their critically acclaimed To Where The Wild Things Are'released in May, Death And Vanilla return with EP California Owls'EP, featuring two non-album tracks. Forming in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson, Death and Vanilla utilise vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych. They revel in the warmth of older analogue instruments to create a more organic sound, each loose wire and off-kilter noise adding to the rich atmosphere. 


    Creating deliciously enticing soundscapes, full of moody moogs and breathless vocals, their influences are as diverse as their music. Passionate about the culture of the 60s/70s, Death And Vanilla have the retro-futuristic edge of Broadcast with Stereolab leanings and the electronic library sounds of the BBC Electronic Workshop. Opulent and timeless, California Owls'is a reverb soaked spectral-pop song drenched in 60s-psych while the dark and swirling melodies of Follow The Light'has a Walk Away Renee pace'(Guardian).

    Their new EP brings together old songs with the new, much like the samples and the instruments they use, whilst capturing the haunting and wild dreamy experimental edge of To Where The Wild Things Are'.

    Tracklisting:
    1. California Owls
    2. Follow the Light
    3. Erté
    4. Reality From Dream

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  • Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (Album)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (Album)'

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    LP is yellow vinyl, CD is didgipack.

    Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson AKA Death and Vanilla released their first full length self-titled eponymous debut LP in 2012.

    It radiates sophisticated retro-futuristic psych-pop whilst channeling their passion for hauntology, library, krautrock and radiophonic music.

    Mastered by Linus Sjölund at RED audio it was initially released on French label Hands In The Dark'which like their EP sold out on pre-order.

    Fire Records will now release the album on black/yellow splatter vinyl and CD on May 13th alongside the From Above'7' and their self-titled debut EP.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Rituals
    2. Dreams Of Sheep
    3. Cul-De-Sac
    4. Somnambulists
    5. The Unseeing Eye
    6. From Elsewhere
    7. Library Goblin
    8. The Clearing
    9. The Unseeing I
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  • Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (EP)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (EP)'

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    12' Blue Vinyl EP / CD digipack.

    The first release for the Swedish Psychedelic dream-pop band, their self-titled EP caught the attention of French label Hands In The Dark'.

    They originally released EP in 2010 on CD an extremely limited edition run of 100 copies.

    The EP will be reissued on blue vinyl to match the cover alongside the From Above'7' and their self-titled debut long player.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Ghosts in the Machine
    2. Godspeed
    3. Run Rabbit Run
    4. The Colour Of Space
    5. Ascend And Descend
    6. The Dödens VaniljsÃ¥s Theme
    7. Between The Circles
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  • Death And Vanilla 'The Tenant' Vinyl LP - Magenta - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'The Tenant' Vinyl LP - Magenta

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    Magenta coloured vinyl LP, includes DL card. 'The retro leaning Scandi duo fire up their Moogs and mellotrons, sonic archaeologists with a hauntological bent.. there is an alluring sexiness to their avant-Kraut Moog-pop excursions.' Uncut

    'Recalling the eerie, haunted ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise's Twin Peaks soundtrack, Stereolab/Broadcast's experimental vision of 50s lounge muzak/exotica and French 60s pop, or the narcotic country-noir of Mazzy Star.' The Guardian

    Following on from the deluxe reissue Vampyr'last year, comes Death And Vanilla's unreleased live score of The Tenant'on limited edition magenta vinyl. Originally scored by Philippe Sarde, this release sees Death And Vanilla reimagine the film's soundtrack four decades on for a new audience.

    The haunting instrumental is a foreboding piece of dark and cinematic avant-garde music that's alienated, lonely and melancholic. Moments of hallucination and delusion mirror the lead character Trelovsky.

    Recorded in 2015 at Cinemascore festival in Spain alongside a two-hour performance and screening of psychological thriller The Tenant'(1976). With the band at their most minimal, the accomplished musicians once again bring the dark narrative to life with their expansive and ethereal noir sound.

    The recording features them as a trio - Marleen Nilsson (Farfisa Compact), Anders Hansson (Hagstrom Kent, Roland SP-404 and Technics SL-1200) and Magnus Bodin (Moog Prodigy and Musser M55).

    Directed by Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski and based on the novel Le Locataire by Roland Topor, The Tenant'is the finale in his acclaimed apartment triology which included 'Repulsion' (1965) and 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968).

    Tracklisting:
    1. Loctaire - intro
    2. Zy And Choule
    3. Church Music
    4. Walls Have Teeth
    5. Labyrinthe
    6. Mouvement Panique
    7. Free Design Kung-Fu
    8. 'Do You Have Any Trouble With Your Neighbours?'
    9. 'If You Cut Off My Head, What Do I Say? Me And My Head Or Me And My Body?'
    10. Dioz Delirium
    11. Everything Is Always Happening
    12. Solitaire
    13. The Bouncing Head
    14. Music Box - outro

    Release Date: 23/02/2018
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  • Death and Vanilla 'To Where the Wild Things Are' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death and Vanilla 'To Where the Wild Things Are'

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    2 vinyl editions, one blue one orange both on 160 gm vinyl, both include downloads. 

    Whether their muse lies in 60s sci-fi soundtracks, The Radiophonic Workshop, the prototype electronic sounds of The United States Of America, the retro-futuristic edge of Broadcast, the dream pop ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julie Cruise, or the shimmering shroud of Mazzy Star, will doubtless be raised in countless interviews.

    But what matters more is that Death And Vanilla have woven a stunning tapestry that envelops all that preceded them, into a literally head-turning album, of kaleidoscopic proportions... Formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson, Death and Vanilla utilise vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych.

    They revel in the warmth of older analogue instruments to create a more organic sound, each loose wire and off-kilter noise adding to the rich atmosphere. After a handful of successful releases including a debut EP in 2010, their self-titled LP in 2012 – which sold out on pre-order – and a beautifully designed 7” single, the experimental pop duo were invited to compose a live soundtrack for the classic horror film, Vampyr (1932), for the Lund Fantastisk Film festival in Lund. Now, newly signed to Fire, the band return with ‘To Where The Wild Things Are.’

    Named after the Maurice Sendak children’s book, the album is comprised of pop music with a wild, dreamy and experimental edge, celebrating imagination and the ability to travel to stranger recesses of the mind. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ starts off with some of the most “pop” songs they’ve ever recorded, typified in the sweet and melodramatic “Arcana”, and the classic pop inspired “Time Travel”. Like Sendak’s book of the same name, the album then proceeds into stranger and stranger territory, resulting in some of the most experimental material Death and Vanilla have produced, such as the six minute “Something Unknown You Need to Know” and the machine-like, surf-guitar track “The Hidden Reverse”.

    The band recorded the new album themselves in their rehearsal space, using just one microphone – a 70’s Sennheiser – which they bought at a flea market for a tenner. It is this unconventional recording process that gives Death and Vanilla their unique personality; using a trial and error approach to recording has rewarded the album with a strangeness that would not have otherwise been achievable.

    Creating deliciously enticing soundscapes, full of moody moogs, swirling melodies and breathless vocals, their influences on ‘To Where the Wild Things Are’ are apparent and diverse, ranging from Ennio Morricone to Scott Walker, Tom Dissevelt to Norman Whitfield, The Zombies to Sun Ra, and Bo Hansson to The BBC Radiophonic workshop. 

     

    “Death and Vanilla’s sound is like an elaborate dreamscape composed of foggy visions and mind-altering notions.” Redefine Magazine

    “Death And Vanilla are a Swedish haunted-pop duo who have found themselves caught in the vortex of retro-futurism circa 1969… they've got a good grip on the baroque psychedelia of the United States Of America and Free Design,” Aquarius Records

    Tracklisting:
    1. Necessary Distortions
    2. The Optic Nerve
    3. Arcana
    4. California Owls
    5. Time Travel
    6. Follow the Light
    7. Shadow and Shape
    8. The Hidden Reverse
    9. Moogskogen
    10. Something Unknown You Need To Know
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  • Death And Vanilla 'Vampyr' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'Vampyr' Vinyl 2xLP - Black and White Marbled

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    500 only 2LP, black and white marbled vinyl, printed inners, gatefold sleeve, download card included is for Cargo Collective Stores Only. A Standard LP and CD release will follow later.

    Now re-issued as a double vinyl package, Vampyr'is full of 'eerie haunted ambience' (©The Guardian), an atmospheric and spaced out 78 minutes that galvanizes Moog, glockenspiel, zither and vibraphonette in a beautiful piece of claustrophobia, a timeless slice of suitably scary sound filled with an unnerving sonic vibe that sticks in the psyche.

    'The retro leaning Scandi duo fire up their Moogs and mellotrons, sonic archaeologists with a hauntological bent.. there is an alluring sexiness to their avant-Kraut Moog-pop excursions.' Uncut

    'Recalling the eerie, haunted ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise's Twin Peaks soundtrack, Stereolab/Broadcast's experimental vision of 50s lounge muzak/exotica and French 60s pop, or the narcotic country-noir of Mazzy Star.' The Guardian

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Vampyr pt.1

    Side B:
    1. Vampyr pt.2

    Side C:
    1. Vampyr pt.3

    Side D:
    1. Vampyr pt.4
    2. Vampyr rehearsals
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  • ESG 'Keep On Moving' - Cargo Records UK

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    ESG 'Keep On Moving'

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    It feels like someone left the light on in the studio and it all just ran itself, there had been a funky human input earlier in the day but, by a Darwinian machine-led kind of osmosis, the tracks recorded spent the wee small hours self-reducing and simplifying themselves. Marinated in music.

    'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil,' said Truman Capote. 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,' opined Leonardo da Vinci much earlier in proceedings. Yes, it's the space around the object, what you leave out that makes what you leave in so important. ESG know this. Sure they can play the game but it's the swagger of the groove and the minimal topping - like an anti-cup cake - that makes this unique New York sisterhood so appealing on Keep On Moving'.

    Sampled on TV ads, lauded by critics and swooned over on the dancefloor, ESG's post-punk took out the grunge and polished the basics. Cut them open and 'less is more' is written all the way through. Keep On Moving'was released just over ten years ago to much praise (Q said it was 'even better' than 2002's much loved Step Off').

    ESG had been sparring partners for PiL and early hip hop and four years after the Off', they were onto something new - rhythm as core, reflective storylines about relationship management, sensuality and insanity gather around the bass fix but they're much blurrier than the incessant beats. Inadvertently they unmask techno and glitch and leave out any kind of superfluous fluff. It's hard and temple throbbing. Turn it up. And keep moving.

    'If there's one tune which sums up ESG's enduring lust for life, it's the beautifully-judged Black Flag/early techno crossover of the closing 'Gimme A Blast'.' The Guardian 5/5

    'This album's every percussive aspect has been honed to impart the maximum amount of pleasure.' The Observer

    'Despite their influence on younger bands (you can hear LCD Soundsystem's knobbly grooves on Insane'), ESG still sound like nothing else.' The Guardian

    Tracklisting:
    1. Purely Physical
    2. Keep On Moving
    3. Insane (Tambourine Mix)
    4. The Road
    5. Id Do It For You
    6. Everything Goes
    7. Ex
    8. Insane (Bass Mix)
    9. Gimme A Blast
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  • ESG 'Step Off' - Cargo Records UK

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    ESG 'Step Off'

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    ESG's fusion of sweet soul and punk attitude with an intuitive understanding of dance music remains.' The Guardian

    'This is still funk with an alien otherworldliness the likes of which George Clinton never envisioned, stripped to its barest essentials for maximum impact.' All Music

    'ESG are as cool as ever.' The Guardian

    Pumping their way out of the South Bronx of New York in the early 80s, this rhythm and dance-punk outfit made unforgettable funk that was also unusually rooted in post-punk.

    This powerhouse of raw and cutting edge music ultimately made them ahead of their time. ESG enjoyed success sharing stages with PiL and Gang Of Four and have been heavily sampled as many musicians including TLC, Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys and Liars.

    A band-approved reissue of 'Step Off' will be released the same day with artwork from award nominated illustrator Hannah Alice, who recently gained critical praise for her work on the Bert Jansch reissue of 'Avocet'.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Be Good To Me
    2. Talk It
    3. Its Not Me
    4. Six Pack
    5. Step Off
    6. Sensual Intentions
    7. My Street
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  • Evan Dando 'Baby I’m Bored' - Cargo Records UK

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    Evan Dando 'Baby I"m Bored'

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    Double yellow vinyl LP, single sleeve, printed inners, download card included.
    2CD Book-back with 24 page book.

    Emerging after The Lemonheads disbanded Evan Dando returned to music first with a solo tour and Live At The Brattle Theatre'then came his debut solo album Baby I'm Bored'.

    Mature and autobiographical, Baby I'm Bored'is a stellar record that stripped Dando of his grunge label. At the time of recording, he was without the band which saw him lean more towards an achingly melodic alt-country rock sound. Self-deprecating, these are songs of decline and coming back from that.

    The record includes 'Hard Drive' and 'All My Life' two tracks penned by Ben Lee and features contributions from producer/composer Jon Brion, producer Bryce Goggin, Tom Morgan, Giant Sand's Howe Gelb, Calexico's John Convertino and Joey Burns, ex-Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon, Come's Chris Brokaw and Arthur Johnson.

    'Dando has a flair for bruised melancholy that stands comparison with Gram Parsons and Alex Chilton.' Q Magazine.

    'A beautiful album of tender reflections on life, love and drug-induced folly set in soulful, country-tinged guitar pop.' The Independent.

    Tracklisting:
    Disc 1:
    1. Repeat
    2. My Idea
    3. Rancho Santa Fe
    4. Waking Up
    5. Hard Drive
    6. Shots Is Fired
    7. It Looks Like You
    8. The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is The Same Part I Can Live Without
    9. Why Do You Do This To Yourself?
    10. All My Life
    11. Stop My Head
    12. In The Grass All Wine Colored

    Disc 2:
    1. Shots Is Fired (Alternative Version)
    2. I Wanna Be Your Mamma Again (Cover - B-Side from 'Stop My Head' Single)
    3. Tongue Tied (B-Side from 'Stop My Head' Single)
    4. Whoops
    5. Sucker Punch
    6. The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is The Same Part I Can Live Without (Alternative Version)
    7. Au Bord De La Seine (B-Side From 'Stop My Head')
    8. Rancho Santa Fe (Alternative Version) A Walk In The Woods With Lionel Richie
    9. Walk In The Woods With Lionel Richie
    10. Rudy With A Flashlight (Evan Dando)
    11. Hannah & Gabi (Live Version - B-Side to 'It Looks Like You' Single)
    12. The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is The Same Part I Can Live Without (Live Version - B-Side to 'It Looks Like You' Single)
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  • Faten Kanaan 'Afterpoem'

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    Faten Kanaan 'Afterpoem'

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    Faten Kanaan's fifth LP Afterpoem is a mysterious, smudgy, bittersweet, and uniquely playful album. Deeply melodic, it continues her poignant exploration of counterpoint as a narrative tool. From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences - to more languid textural ebbs & tides, there's a warmth in her use of electronic instruments that gives the album a curiously timeless feel. Composing intuitively, her music has often been described as 'strange', mostly because it creates its own world- one that isn't easily categorised. The album's title refers to the haze of a poem's intended meaning being abstractly fleeting and barely graspable. Glistening threads of understanding still touch us - the poetry becoming intimately personal, and no further literal explanation is needed. "I find pleasure in music as a language that nudges and hints. There's a potential that lives in things left unsaid... meanings drifting in and out of focus... hovering like spiritsIt's a romantic and earnest album... of yearning for lost places and people, while still looking out at the world with tenderness and humour".

    Tracklisting:
    Side A
    1. Fin Août, Début Septembre
    2. Trenchcoat
    3. Ard Diar
    4. Ebla
    5. Florin Court
    6. Snowing
    7. Domari's Lamp

    Side B
    8. Votive
    9. La Smorfia
    10. Castling
    11. Falconers
    12. Cascando
    13. Storm Signal

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  • Georgia'â„¢s Horse 'Mammoth Session' - Cargo Records UK

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    Texas is a graveyard and The Lone Star State is full of ghosts. Out on the road to Old El Paso lies the Rattlesnake Bomber Base near a town called Peyote. Once the home of fleets of B29 bombers and the plane called Enola Gay as well as many thousands of military personnel, it now stands empty.

    The only tenants are lizards and snakes. Even the rusted and rotted hulks of planes have been carted off by junk men and souvenir hunters. The roar of the war effort has been replaced by the whisper of the wind. A gentle absence of action.

    This is just one of several thousand abandoned settlements or ghost towns in the West Texan desert but the haunted Americana of georgia's Horse sounds like it could have come from any of them. Their debut album The Mammoth Sessions is redolent of sun-baked vacant lots, cracked runways, drifting tumble weed and dull orange rust.

    This collection of songs all sound like the aftermath of some emotionally violent event that has just left stillness and melancholia in its place. There are echoes of the Americana of The New Pornographers, a light dusting of the folk psychedelia of Smog and the torrid and threatening country death songs of PJ Harveys To Bring You My Love These 13 songs are anchored round the skewed and magnetic vision of singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado and their brittle and skeletal songs are fleshed out by multi-instrumentalists Tiziano Hernandez, Brad Thomason and Melly Rose But thas not to say that this recording sounds like it was handled by some kind of your mothes your brother, lives in a barn hillman.

    One of many stand out tracks Snake & Sparrow creaks and echoes as if recorded in a haunted house, on haunted equipment. And the title track briefly effloresces violently as if the ghost of the Enola Gay were bringing its terrible cargo home, before returning to gentleness once more. From the most basic of set ups, a deeply affecting and subtle beauty is achieved.
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  • Giant Sand 'Backyard Barbeque Broadcast (25th Anniversary Edition)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Giant Sand 'Backyard Barbeque Broadcast (25th Anniversary Edition)'

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    Recorded and broadcast way back when, an actual back yard barbeque Nick Hill had set up live on air at the radio station, WFMU. watermelon and everything...

    This BBQ record nicely captures the sweetness of the season when Giant Sand were turning into something else. Nick Hill, An old buddy from Brooklyn, had an important radio show there as well as harbouring tremendously good taste. Once when the odds were tremendously against Howe making a plane outa NY on time, he turned the car around and fetched a 2 man kayak. They went kayaking in the Hudson river instead. "Have you ever seen New York city from a kayak? nothing but stunning. And wonderfully spooky, zipping under those giant rotting piers too. That was Nick Hill." He was the fellow responsible for presenting this record and getting it recorded and broadcasted way back when.

    This collection of songs was recorded by WFMU over two live sessions for 'The Music Faucet' show in the summer of 1994 and 1995. This 25th anniversary reissue CD also features two bonus tracks, 'Yer Ropes' and 'Rolling Stones I Am' which featured originally as a not so 'secret track'.

    "Giant Sand is a mood," says Howe' of Giant Sand, as if trying to oer 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 prolic output under other projects including Black Ranchette and Arizona Amp & Alternator as well as his solo releases.

    1. BBQ Suite
    2. World Stands Still (BBQ Suite part i)
    3. Good & Gone (BBQ Suite part ii)
    4. I Wish You Love (BBQ Suite part iii)
    5. Romance Of Falling (BBQ Suite part iv)
    6. Seashells (BBQ Suite part v)
    7. Mope-A-Long
    8. Lean
    9. Get To Leave
    10. Lester Lampshade
    11. Blue Waltz Reprise
    12. Yer Ropes (Bonus)
    13. Rolling Stones I Am (Bonus)
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  • Giant Sand 'Black Out (25th Anniversary Edition)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Fire Records re-issues the rare and regarded 'Black Out' recording from 1993. Forged from the embers of the recording session which was 'Purge & Slouch' , and wholly acoustic, this collection of takes was originally released only in Germany. 'Black Out' sits proudly amidst the Giant Sand re-issue project.

    "When we gathered for the grand experiment of 'purge & slouch" Howe Gelb recalls, "the idea of which was to record without having written anything prior for it . Some actual songs did pop out , perhaps for the sake of warm-up or while mics were being wired .. maybe just for the sake of vigorous deployment .. re-living some old songs there and then, we bundled em up after the fact for what would become "stromausfall" instead."

    "This was a limited batch release on a small german label who took my original title "black out" and translated it .. the idea being that this is the sound that would happen during one .. songs without electricity attached". Since then, most of that original pressing made in germany has mysteriously self destructed so it is with pleasure we have
    the opportunity to release the album again, including a bonus piano track for when the city goes dark.

    "Giant Sand is a mood," says Howe' of Giant Sand, as if trying to oer 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 prolic output under other projects including Black Ranchette and Arizona Amp & Alternator as well as his solo releases.

    1. October Anywhere
    2. The Y Stop Jumble
    3. Steadfast
    4. Robes Of Bible Black
    5. Mt. Of Love
    6. The Replacement
    7. Severely Altered On The Hill
    8. Dreamville, New Mexico
    9. Seldom Matters
    10. Approximation Of Joy (Bonus)
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  • Giant Sand 'Center Of The Universe (25th Anniversary Edition)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Giant Sand 'Center Of The Universe (25th Anniversary Edition)'

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    'Center Of The Universe', originally released in 1992, is the eighth Giant Sand reissue in the series from Fire Records. 

    Howe holds 'Center Of The Universe' close to his heart, explaining the record ,"Could be my favourite. .. written in a one room cabin at the end of the road in the high desert around Joshua tree where I lived for a few years ... recorded back in Venice, California with the same slant as was instilled in the writing ... adorned with the 'psycho sisters' who show where the melodies in these songs were hiding ... now through the miracle of remastering, these tracks sound more vibrant and alluring".

    What was a common approach to record making for Howe and Giant Sand, 'Center Of The Universe' would be the last of a kind, "it marks the last time I could work like this, before the advent of family life was to take over and populate the day .. this record marks the final time of isolation with a happy careless abandon and an immediate urgency delivered by a wired up acoustic guitar with stomp box distortion ready and willing".

    "The experiment: to record a vocal in fragments while intentionally singing differently each time on the same song, then combining the takes instantaneously . The result was "loretta and the insect world".

    "Giant Sand is a mood", says Howe of Giant Sand, as if trying to offer 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 1970s, it wasnt 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 Howes equally prolific output under other projects including Black Ranchette and Arizona Amp & Alternator as well as his solo releases.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Seeded (`Tween Bone And Bark)
    2. Pathfinder
    3. Center Of The Universe
    4. Off Ramp Man
    5. Year Of The Dog
    6. Live To Tell
    7. Thrust
    8. Loretta And The Insect World
    9. Sonic Drive In
    10. Milkshake Girl
    11. Stuck
    12. Thing Like That
    13. Return To Fodder
    14. Unwed And Well Sped
    15. Solomon's Ride
    16. Slip Slice Suite (Bonus)
    17. Goin' To New Mexico (Bonus)
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  • Giant Sand 'Chore Of Enchantment' - Cargo Records UK

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    Realised through tragic circumstances, the passing of Rainer Ptacek and the birth of Calexico, it all came together at the end for Giant Sand. Arguably Giant Sand's finest album, the fruits of an astounding story and the mesmerising high point of the 25th anniversary reissue series.

    'Chore of Enchantment' is released with a second disc of recordings from the time which was to be become 'The Rock Opera Years (Chore Bonus CD)', with all tracks except 'Music Arcade' produced by John Parish.

    1. Overture
    2. (Well) Dusted (For The Millenium)
    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)
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  • Giant Sand 'Cover Magazine (25th Anniversary Edition)' - Cargo Records UK

    Fire Records

    Giant Sand 'Cover Magazine (25th Anniversary Edition)'

    £7.99

    2002's 'Cover Magazine' is a much less cryptic, typically literal title for one of Giant Sand's lighter alternative offerings. A collection of covers which says as much about Howe Gelb's personal musical taste as it does the friends he has made on his musical journey. Being in the fortunate position of looking back on Giant Sand's output with the 25th Anniversary reissue series, we are able to see the influences which have shaped the existence of the band at each turn and chapter. Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and of course Rainer Ptacek have all made an impression and the tables are turned as Giant Sand give thanks with renditions of Young's' Out on The Weekend', Cash's 'I'm leaving now' and Rainer's touching 'The Inner Flame'. More contemporary takes on PJ Harvey and Goldfrapp show Giant Sand are forever keen and willing to listen.

    With Giant Sand's clattering percussion and Howe's meandering vocals, nothing should be assumed before listening. Each track is taken from a new (alternative, strange, weird, interesting, unexpected, intriguing) angle, so surprises are aplenty. A Black Sabbath lounge ballad anyone?

    This 25th Anniversary edition features two bonus tracks, 'Summertime' and 'The Pilgrim (Chapter 33)'

    Tracklisting:
    1. El Paso / Out On The Weekend
    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 (Alternative)
    14. Summertime (Bonus)
    15. The Pilgrim (Chapter 33) (Bonus)
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  • Giant Sand 'Glum (25th Anniversary Edition)' - Cargo Records UK

    Fire Records

    Giant Sand 'Glum (25th Anniversary Edition)'

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    1994's '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 helped 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."

    Tracklisting:
    1. Glum
    2. Yer Ropes
    3. Happenstance
    4. Frontage Road
    5. 1 Helvakowboy Song
    6. Painted Bird
    7. Spun
    8. Left
    9. Faithful
    10. Bird Song
    11. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
    12. Body's A Boat (Bonus)
    13. Remain Distorted (Bonus)
    14. Water Fuels The Fire (Bonus)
    15. Occupy (Bonus)
    16. Between The Time It Takes (Bonus)
    17. The Professor (Bonus)
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  • Giant Sand 'Goods And Services (25th Anniversary Edition)' - Cargo Records UK

    Fire Records

    Giant Sand 'Goods And Services (25th Anniversary Edition)'

    £7.99

    1995's 'Goods And Services' was another for German ears only. It's re-issue will bring it to
    the attention of new fans as part of the series. Once not remembered fondly by Giant
    Sand's Howe Gelb, time has been kind and his perception has softened with the memories
    of Vic Chesnutt's contrbution.

    "Another live record. but this sound was bloated from euro touring and was supposed to
    be a reection of only how it was sounding then. Later, that made less sense to me since
    every tour the band sound would change anyway. So i am not in love with this record
    and thusly never made it available for the states. but now, looking back on it, it brings a
    smile. . . . and also moistens the eye with the missingness of Pappy and Vic Chesnutt."

    "Giant Sand is a mood," says Howe' of Giant Sand, as if trying to oer 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 prolic output under
    other projects including Black Ranchette and Arizona Amp & Alternator as well as his
    solo releases.

    1. Back To The Black And Grey
    2. Opus - Solomon's Ride - Opus
    3. Good And Gone
    4. Bender
    5. Occupied
    6. Warm Storm
    7. You're So Vain
    8. Welcome To My World
    9. Surfin' Lean
    10. Trickle Down System
    11. Faithful (Bonus)
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