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
“I was turning 28,” he recalls, “and had been wanting to make and release albums since my early 20s, but only recently had figured out how. It was time to make up for lost time.”
Time was of the essence.
That thin line between then and now has seen journeymen Giant Sand release 27-ish albums, their latest, ‘Recounting The Ballad Of The Thin Line Men’ turning the clock back to 1986’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Line Man’, picking over the bones and making a whole new soup.
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.
The revamp re-orders the tracks, drops a couple and adds ‘Reptillian’, a previously lost song hailing from their album’s 25th anniversary re-issue, a tune that opens proceedings and basks in all its crinkly glory. There’s also two takes of ‘Tantamount’.
The unique thing about Giant Sand’ is they make it all their own, they sound like no-one else. The songs remain the same, but somehow completely different.
Howe: “We were a fine storm.The greatest storm in terms of tumultuous velocity and pelting bluster.
It proved unstoppable…
for a minute”.
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