Celebrating 25 years since the release of Giant Sand’s legendary ‘Chore Of Enchantment’, the panoramic masterpiece that was the turning point for the classic line-up featuring seasoned songwriter Howe Gelb and latter-day Calexico members Joey Burns and John Convertino from 1999.
Filled with mind-bending one-liners, customary offbeat instrumentation, echo fields and hazy horizons; ‘Chore Of Enchantment’ is a songbook of Howe Gelb’s greatest songs. The high level production by the legendary Jim Dickinson, PJ Harvey foil John Parish and acclaimed singer/songwriter/producer Kevin Salem, a tour-de-force of Gelb’s unique oeuvre.
Highlighting their eclectic and esoteric career, this reissue celebrates the band’s magnificent, long and winding career. This deluxe reissue features restored artwork and newly penned liner notes from MOJO’s Dave Henderson.
Giant Sand have been the primary outlet for the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft of singer-songwriter Howe Gelb. In four plus decades he’s managed to reinvent rock, country, blues, punk, garage, lo-fi, jazz, gospel, avant-garde noise and flamenco gypsy music with his impressionistic imagery and expansive observations of the world.
‘Chore Of Enchantment’ is out 12th April. Available to pre-order in 2xLP Deluxe Black Vinyl with Restored Artwork.
Listen/Pre-Order ‘Chore Of Enchantment’
The reissue is released alongside 2010’s ‘Blurry Blue Mountain’. Recorded 25 years into their career, Giant Sand’s 25th album is a gorgeous and much-celebrated collection of perfectly-crafted, personal songwriting from Howe Gelb. With the exception of one or two wonderfully abrupt and perfectly placed outbursts, it’s a gentle rollercoaster traversing the inner thinking of the why’s and wherefores of whatever, a meditation on time and the ageing process.
Musing on the record, Howe Gelb explains “On this LP I show off an acquired appreciation for the simple lyric. Kinda haiku at times, like flamenco verse, or the blues. I can focus more as it’s obvious there’s only so much time left – that has a production value all its own”
Highlighting their eclectic and esoteric career, this reissue celebrates the band’s magnificent, long and winding career. This deluxe reissue features restored artwork and newly penned liner notes from MOJO’s Dave Henderson.
“An album full of heart, soul, and wit… there’s some very real magic to be found in the elegant force of Blurry Blue Mountain.” AllMusic
‘Blurry Blue Mountain’ is out 12th April. Available to pre-order in Classic Black Vinyl.
Listen/Pre-Order ‘Blurry Blue Mountain’
Giant Sand will be touring the UK this April which includes a special live date at EartH collaborating with Steve Wynn and Kristin Hersh in celebration of Fire Records’ 40th Anniversary.
22 Apr: Cluny, Newcastle, UK
23 Apr: Broadcast, Glasgow, UK
24 Apr: YES Pink Room, Manchester, UK
27 Apr: Forty Years Of Fire – The Giant Syndicate, Earth, London, UK, w/ The Dream Syndicate, Kristin Hersh, Islet, Bas Jan, Marta Del Grandi, Graham Reynolds, Immaterial Possession
