Giant Sand announce ‘Glum’ 25th Anniversary edition with unearthed 1994 KCRW session out Nov 8th
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‘Recounting The Ballads Of Thin Line Men’ out next month and Nov 2019 tour (full tour dates below)
‘Glum’ is an inadvertent conceptual masterpiece, a ramble through the tumbleweeds of the mind touching on love, loss, belief and fulfilment. It’s an attitudinal thought provoker, a heady, life-affirming adventure (as all Giant Sand albums are).
Originally released 25 years ago, it’s a timeless trek that’s enhanced with a classic KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic session that spreads the myth of ‘Glum’ yet further (and there’s an additional five tracks that add further polish proceedings). The session is slow paced, drawling, a further exploration of the options, taking in gospel and Vegas jazz, while Howe explains all… comes clean.
“It’s music that lives and breathes” exclaimed Morning becomes Eclectic host Chris Douridas.
Pre-order link: https://fire-records.
New release & tour reminder:
‘Recounting The Ballads Of Thin Line Men’ out 20th September 2019 on ltd edition colour vinyl
‘A Hard Man To Get To Know’ audio:
https://soundcloud.com/
★★★★ Mojo
“serves as a director’s cut, it’s chief architect approaches them with keener, more mature eyes” Record Collector
It’s 33 and a third years since the seminal Giant Sand and its country cousin The Band Of… Blacky Ranchette entered the studio to lay down their second albums. Yes. Both bands had recorded their second albums each. Two sides of the multi-faceted hyper-productive Howe Gelb.
All these years on, the latest incarnation of Giant Sand: Howe Gelb (guitars, piano) Tommy Larkins (drums) and Thøger Lund (bass), have dusted off the old vinyl and re-imagined those heady days – they’ve polished these buried gems, reignited some truculent tirades and rekindled an ageless angst.
Pre-order link: https://fire-records.
EU live dates 2019
09 Nov: Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands
10 Nov: Burgerweeshuis, Deventer, Netherlands
11 Nov: Zonnehuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
13 Nov: Nosta, Opwijk, Belgium
14 Nov: Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao, Spain
15 Nov: Cafe Berlin, Madrid, Spain
16 Nov: Loco Club, Valencia, Spain
17 Nov: La Nau, Barcelona, Spain
21 Nov: Under The Bridge, London, UK
23 Nov: Cafe Scheune, Wredenhagen, Germany
24 Nov: JZ Karo, Wesel, Germany
25 Nov: Musikbunker, Aachen, Germany
26 Nov: Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
27 Nov: BiNuu, Berlin, Germany
28 Nov: Roxy, Ulm, Germany
29 Nov: Blue Bird Festival, Vienna, Austria
30 Nov: El Lokal, Zurich, Switzerland
02 Dec: Zoom, Frankfurt, Germany
03 Dec: Feierwerk/Hansa 39, Munich, Germany
04 Dec: Franz K, Reutlingen, Germany
05 Dec: Grabenhalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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