u*l*i @ iang

thanks for this video-link. i must say, i love it. though i think, SOMEONE might find it challenging, because SOMEONE thought, this kind of music would be HIS thing... haha. 15:08 on Thursday March 11 2010

IanG

Hey Jorg, I can't give you it on vinyl just yet but you can see the vid here http://vimeo.com/10009013 and avoid the trauma of facebook ..... 11:51 on Thursday March 11 2010 - n

Jörg

Oh no, do I have to jump in those facebook- and twitter-waters if I want to keep up with Howe's activities?? I thought this is stuff for the kids. I won't join. I'm old. So I hope the video will be released on vinyl soon... 02:44 on Thursday March 11 2010 - dixieland

o (onword actually)

hey fair sand fans, if yrr a fan of giant sand or hg over at facebookland you can view a new video starring Howe, he's re-worked Storm's 'Uneven Light of Day' with the lovely band of gypsies he's currently working with..beautiful video and sounds..it's been a highlight of this week/month..wondering if it's gonna be put on the 'ol you tube..onword and ward for sure. 22:30 on Wednesday March 10 2010 - but the kind of snow / that don't mean nothin', ab

james s

completely depressing. Crap! 00:09 on Monday March 8 2010

SeanT

Been playing Sparklehorse all day, it's not making it better. Such sadness, such a talent. The world is a whole lot worse without the likes of Vic and Mark. 19:37 on Sunday March 7 2010 - Epping Forest

PaulK

Christ, it's bad enough when someone dies but these suicides are beyond awful. God knows what goes through the mind when this seems to be the only way out. A great sorrow and pity for any family . This is more of a shock to me than Vic's but then I didn't know either of them. Sad, sad indeed. 19:16 on Sunday March 7 2010 - At home

u*l*i: r.i.p.

sad news indeed... as 2008/2009 have been really sad years for movies, 2009/2010 obviously turn out to be very sad for musics... saw sparklehorse once on a very small stage and immediately loved it... r.i.p. 15:33 on Sunday March 7 2010 - dresden

richard

can not believe mark linkous news. rip. 1st elliot smith, then vic chestnutt and now another great. i am a huge sparkehorse fan. let the music live on 12:55 on Sunday March 7 2010 - stagged out/now bummed out

M.L.........

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous has committed suicide, his publicist confirms to Rolling Stone. Best known for his acclaimed work with Sparklehorse, who released four albums of imaginative ambient psych-folk, Linkous also produced Daniel Johnston’s 2003 album Fear Yourself and collaborated with Danger Mouse on Dark Night of the Soul. His exact age is unknown, but he was in his forties. “It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today,” reads a statement from his family. “We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. There’s a heaven and there’s a star for you.” 10:29 on Sunday March 7 2010 - RIP

IanG

Sad news indeed. 07:50 on Sunday March 7 2010 - N

SeanT

R.I.P Mark Linkous. Another great one departs. Very sad. 02:56 on Sunday March 7 2010 - Epping Forest

howe

o no. not another me. the real me twould never chortle the word "chump". but now through the advent of evolution, its viable to message here as the likes of me. once that becomes the trend then i will have to become all of you ... one by one of course. perhaps its best to stop this fiasco before it starts. one way or the other, there's so little time left. ok ... onward - howe 17:53 on Saturday March 6 2010 - somewhere close to here

poor little dab

I can't find my hat anywhere. Not sure if it'll tun up. it'd sure be nice to replace it with a GS/HG trucker cap. What are the odds? 17:24 on Saturday March 6 2010 - sunny northeast

finn

hmmm 16:48 on Saturday March 6 2010 - pootered

howe

It's reckon you chump! 16:45 on Saturday March 6 2010 - oh...

finn

O It's cool I rekon... Seemed reasonable to me also... can we impersonate Mr Gelb on here??? 16:41 on Saturday March 6 2010 - home

IanG

I'm sure this could become the most tedious debate ever seen on this board. What I meant by 'geographically' was that the UK is in the vicinity. Cyprus, Malta and Eire are also EU member states but are not actually attached to 'continental Europe'. Finland and Sweden are not part of 'continental Europe' by my geography teachers definition, but are also member states. What I was trying to say is that, in my experience, UK residents do not tend to consider themselves to be 'Europeans', neither do out politicians (not that I believe anything they have to say). So, socially and politically we don't really feel like part of the Euro superstate but, because of location, I have no doubt that we are part of Europe. 15:49 on Saturday March 6 2010 - Europe

arturo

but the UK is a member of the european union and located outside continental Europe. so, is the UK part of Europe? Geographically no, politically yes. that would be mine... 14:38 on Friday March 5 2010

IanG

Is the UK part of Europe? That would depend on who you asked..... There are probably lot's of places where this is a matter of conjecture. Geographically yes, politically no, would be my answer. 16:10 on Thursday March 4 2010 - Help. I'm a rock

- (hey *2)

..when i typed europe, i also mean UK as well..but as seperate..is the UK part of Europe? this i don't fully understand? 17:14 on Wednesday March 3 2010 - ab, n-america

o (hey)

south africa? kinda far away from the west (Canada/USA). not sure why i felt like copying and posting that article..it seemed ok..but i dunno..there's alot of web content about our fav Giant Sand which i like..a bunch of those thrill jockey releases are now out of print..sip of organic mexican coffee..went after off ramp on itunes and a bunch others since my old hard-drive went kaput..the rock opera years is really good to hear again..2000 & 2002 down home's as well. also, since i got a couple of free downloads from buying proVisions cd (dear diary & new romance of falling) i downloaded a few from provisional supplement..still gotta get the vox 'ballad of the tucson 2'..if Giant Sand is all over the web then does that mean it's developing a trend to more record sales/itunes downloads? hope so, does the majority of the fans still reside in Europe? i wore my black Giant Sand cap in the Valley of Sun when i was down there..wonder if i'd get a few more comments on it if i was wearing it in Europe..the fellows at Toxic Ranch in Tucson did mention that Phoenix wants to be Los Angeles. i really don't like the term 'cult', it bugs me..more coffee..buy bye 16:36 on Wednesday March 3 2010 - march, year of the tiger

Blaine

He likes it. 14:35 on Wednesday March 3 2010 - MKE, WI

h owe

what the hell is that guy trying to say anyway ? do the details from his internet page means he is from south africa ? that's kind of interesting. anyhow .. whatever. onward -hjowe 14:29 on Wednesday March 3 2010 - on top of a hard place, but still under a rock

o (thanks s, excellent article)

FOR 30 years Howe Gelb has been making the albums he wants to without fear, favour or, apparently, much concern for discographical analysis. His stature as a pivotal, if cultish and commercially rather marginal figure in independent American rock is probably assured. His session guest list reveals the respect he enjoys among better-known peers, and that respect is supported by an almost invariably favourable critical response. He obviously considers GIANT SAND his main release vehicle. The band, which has outlived nearly all of its guitar-driven ’80s US underground contemporaries, really consists of Gelb and an ever revolving cast of friends. Yet he has also released a string of ostensibly solo albums, featuring contributions by the same friends, as well as records by the Band of Blacky Ranchette, which is more or less Giant Sand’s country alter ego, and one by OP8, which was Giant Sand with one of those friends, Lisa Germano. Most record companies would find the confusion he sows unhelpful. He once released albums by Giant Sand and the Band Of Blacky Ranchette on the same day, and his catalogue is peppered with private mail-order releases, live radio show reproductions and the like. Giant Sand’s 2000 album, Chore Of Enchantment , its 11th formal studio release, was slated for a major label that eventually backed off after months of vacillation. Its studio predecessor, 1994’s Glum, a fine, relatively polished affair, except for the bits that he deliberately left unpolished, might have been the breakthrough, but its record company folded and the album pretty much disappeared. Chore might have suffered the same fate, but Chicago’s consistently terrific independent, Thrill Jockey, finally provided Gelb with a home he could live in. A quick perusal of the album’s credits will tell you quite a lot of what you need to know about the sound of Chore Of Enchantment. The basic group had for some time consisted of Gelb and his rhythm section cum multi-instrumentalist mates from Tucson, Arizona, Joey Burns and John Convertino, who were already plying a parallel trade as the fabulous Calexico. Alongside guests ranging from Juliana Hatfield to Jim Dickinson, and instruments from mellotron, ’cello and “casio a la Love Unlimited Orchestral Maneuverings” to banjo and pedal steel, you’ll find “Walkman capture”, “78 rpm crackling notion”, “plastic loop spoink”, “scraping chair on metal porch loop” and “Willie Nelson style lead guitar”. The recordings themselves sprung from a variety of locations, including Memphis, where the irrepressible Dickinson produced and the Ardent Studio fountain played the part of the precipitation in Gelb’s solo Dirty From The Rain. Where Giant Sand once slashed and burned like a combination of a slightly less focused Crazy Horse and a sunburned Velvet Underground, Chore is, as Gelb made clear at the time, all about mood, and his parched, laconic vocal style is absolutely perfect for his dry, dusty, somewhat cryptic ruminations. The Arizona desert features strongly, both sonically and emotionally, in nearly all of his work, making adjectival cliche inevitable but entirely accurate, and never more so than here. The album is generally loose and sometimes ragged, but it always coolly and confidently avoids easy musical classification as it spreads across the landscape from nylon string folk to noise rock, taking on country atmosphere, a Mexicali complexion and even traces of R&B and reggae as it goes. It’s infused with the spirit of Gelb’s great friend and collaborator, the distinctively toned East German-born, Texas- and Chicago-raised, desert-ripened blues guitarist Rainer Ptacek, who had died fairly recently. Rainer’s ghostly slide closes the album while snippets from his favourite opera tapes poignantly punctuate an album that is part elegy, part celebration and, typically, part highly engaging idiosyncrasy. 09:43 on Tuesday March 2 2010 - early march, ab

Stephen M.H. Braitman

Nice review by Richard Haslop of "Chore Of Enchantment" as part of his "Crucial CD Collection" series. Link is: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=94927 14:13 on Monday March 1 2010 - San Francisco Bay Area

Marviol

Listened to the 40 Watt show like a moth to the flame and was appalled by the crowd. It really pains me when someone bothers to assemble such great artists to celebrate the life and music of someone so special and then holds it in a shitty bar. The 40 Watt may have been a big part of Vic's "career", but why someone would perpetuate the climate of humiliation he so often endured, especially for his friends who travelled there to pay him homage is just beyond me. Couldn't the Athens folks have found a listening venue for crying out loud? 13:39 on Monday March 1 2010

Blaine

Considering that the Olympics are happening, I think Howe deserves the gold for his restraint toward the yakkers at the Vic Chestnutt gig. Just saw the Howe/John/Joe/Chris Cacavas footage on youtube. Is there more of this? Very very cool. 17:57 on Thursday February 25 2010 - Milwaukee

Graham

I was disappointed that Mark Linkous didn't show, either. Regardless, it was a great night of music. 10:03 on Wednesday February 24 2010 - AL

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