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Howe Gelb

Nov 7, 2014

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    $16.78 in advance - Must be 16 or older
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Overview

“The Coincidentalist is someone who can read the coincidences but who doesn’t try to figure out their meaning. For if one tries to figure out the meaning it will be lost. The coincidences aren’t there to figure out but to point the way.”  – Howe Gelb  The Coincidentalist marks the New West Records debut of Howe Gelb, the freewheeling luminary whose three decades of voluminous recording with his category-busting band Giant Sand have forged a legend of Southwestern American roots-punk and international prominence.   The album culminates 30 years of restless creative work by Gelb, a Pennsylvania flood evacuee who relocated to Tucson in 1972. After meeting up in 1976, Giant Sandworms began in 1980 with his close friend Rainer Ptacek, the renowned slide guitarist. That group morphed into beloved genre benders Giant Sand in 1983. Giant Sand’s incarnation in the ‘90s included Joey Burns and John Convertino, who went  on to form the acclaimed Latinesque unit Calexico. At this stage in his life, after years of ping ponging between the desert and Europe, Gelb is putting a renewed focus on the U.S and hoping for his global scattering to come to a rest. “After three decades delivering some kind of American music mash up to all parts of the globe like a sonic ambassador, it feels like I’ve taken the long way home, settling now into my own undiscovered country,” he says. “Which is ok. I’m always late.”

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