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NEKO CASE TOUR DATES FOR SUMMER/FALL 2008

 

MON 8/25 - TUCSON, AZ @ THE RIALTO (Benefit for Greyhound Adoption League + Tucson Dog Protection)

WED 8/27 - RENO, NV @ ROBERT HAWKINS AMPHITHEATRE

THU 8/28 - SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ GALLIVAN CTR. TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES

FRI 8/29 - BOISE, ID @ WINERY @ EAGLE KNOLL

SAT 8/30 - SEATTLE, WA @ BUMBERSHOOT FESTIVAL

+SUN 8/31 - VANCOUVER, BC @ MALKIN BOWL (Neko Case show)

+*MON 9/1 - VANCOUVER, BC @ MALKIN BOWL (New Pornographers show-NOT Neko solo material)

 

 

FRI 9/12 - EARTHDANCE FESTIVAL @ BLACK OAK RANCH, CA

SUN 9/14 - MORRISON, CO @ RED ROCKS

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Neko's site mentioned more dates to follow, but no word of more from Giant Sand's site.

 

But a new Giant Sand album Sep 2!

 

From YepRoc Records:

Now following a nearly four year hiatus, Howe's Giant Sand project returns with the release of proVISIONS on September 2, 2008. Produced by Howe and Kent Olsen (Arizona Amp and Alternator, Marie Frank), the album's 13 tracks were recorded during a summer in Denmark, and features the Danish musicians Thoger T. Lund (bass), Peter Dombernowsky (drums), and Anders Pedersen (slide guitar). As with past incarnations of the band, the current lineup utilizes a more natural form of playing, relying heavily on improvisation and "on the fly" problem solving, as well as exploring the latent melodic variations within the songs themselves.

 

Also lending themselves to the casual mix are a host of talented friends/collaborators--such as Neko Case, M. Ward, Isobel Campbell, Henriette Sennenvaldt, Lucie Idlout and Lonna Kelley--all of whom ease warmly into the passenger seat to ride shotgun for a while on an album thick with musings scattered by the desert winds and soaked with eroding guitars or dusty piano.

 

Providing an alternate route around box-store labels like "Alt. Country" while ruminating on love and loss in the socio-political climate of a modern world at odds with itself, proVISIONS is a creeping cruise down a dark desert highway, forging another surprising and welcome byway in the completely unique musical legacy of Giant Sand.

 

and ...

 

Giant Sand's Howe Gelb discovers lost track

July 7, 2008, 12:00 am

 

Experimental americana pioneer Howe Gelb discovers lost song "Belly Full of Fire" and makes last minute alterations to new Giant Sand album proVisions.

 

When you're as prolific as Howe Gelb it's easy to lose track of your material. To the legendary indie vet, songs are cyclical - coming and going, bleeding into one another like rain on a river.

 

Written - or more accurately, birthed - while on tour opening for PJ Harvey in Europe, "Belly Full of Fire" was first the victim of a spilled bottle of wine in a Stockholm recording studio. Later the song fell into the creative abyss which can swallow songs whole when writing and recording at the voracious pace Gelb finds comfortable. "As is the case these days so much gets recorded and then stashed away until it’s needed ... some stuff just gets forgotten about and this was one of those songs," said Gelb on the phone from an undisclosed European location.

 

The track finally resurfaced while going through music from Gelb's vast library in search of bonus material for proVisions.

 

"Somehow it made sense there at the very last minute to get this new found treasure of a song in the record. It made the whole record click. It woke up the songs that came after it beautifully."

 

"Plus, it was written while on tour with P.J. and the man who discovered her, John Parish, who is a dear friend, said he loved the track too. I reckon it was enough of an omen for me to gush, 'Oh man ... this has gotta happen.' Even though the promo copies were already pressed up and deadlines were lining up to die."

 

Gelb has now inserted "Belly Full of Fire" into its rightful place on proVisions in lieu of the lovely, rambling "The New Romance of Falling" which will now be offered as a digital-only bonus track with purchase of proVisions

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  • 2 months later...
Guest Hollinger.

The show was awesome. Howe's new band isn't quite as good as previous lineups, but he put on a good show. Neko was beautiful and amazing as always. She played at least half a dozen songs from the upcoming album. Great stuff is ahead.

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