April 23, 2024
Giant Sand Valley Of Rain Howe Gelb Calexico Rare OG LP
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From Trouser Press: "There are few bands extant today that approach music with the utter guilelessness of Giant Sand. Not to imply that the Tucson-based trio ever lapses into savantry — the members know exactly what they're doing — but under the direction of singer/guitarist Howe Gelb, Giant Sand espouses a play-free-or-die aesthetic that straddles hippiedom and punk (which, aside from the clothes, aren't all that different when you come right down to it). At times, the band variously resembles a roadhouse incarnation of Sun Ra's Arkestra or a rudimentary Grateful Dead, but whatever the mood, there's an implicit guarantee of astral projection in everything Giant Sand does. During a brief stint in New York, he led an unrelated early combo called Giant Sandworms. That group released one EP, a five-song 7-inch of off-kilter electro-rock that owes a rudimentary debt to Roxy Music, Devo and XTC. From there, the Pennsylvania-born Gelb moved to the more sympathetic environs of Tucson, Arizona, where his cosmic cowboy wanderings adapted magnificently. Augmented by bassist Scott Garber and two drummers (playing on different cuts), Gelb recorded Valley of Rain , as thorny an outcropping of Southwestern ambience as anything this side of Townes Van Zandt. Gelb manages to integrate elements from the western side of C&W without sounding condescending
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