Blurry Blue Mountain

NYT ALBUM FRA ALT. COUNTRYENS GODFATHER HOWE GELB & GIANT SAND!

Inaccurately yet a-ffectionately dubbed the Godfather of Alt. Country by the British press, Tucson, Arizona

-based musician Howe Gelb has remained the sole epicenter and creative force behind the ever—fluid configurations

of Giant Sand for over a quarter century. 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the bands 1985

debut long player “Valley Of Rain” - the point in which Howes music visions began - and will see the release

of the complete works of Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, Arizona Amp and The Bands Of Blacky Ranchette –

a collection of works that maintains its own genre-defying singularity drawing on the not-so disparate

threads of his south western roots, lo-fi, country, jazz, and punk ... “Giant Sand is a mood," explained

Howe, as if to simplify the dizzying breadth of his prolific output as an artist. 2010 will also welcome the

release of the new Giant Sand record “Blurry Blue Mountain – the follow up to the bands critically acclaimed

2008 album “ProVisions” “These recordings were done in the space between the waking world and

the sleeping one. There exists a point there with a broad landscape that has seldom been loitered in. As

with every previous album, none of this was planned. Every record has its own atmosphere. For me they

are always a new place to live in and spend some time before moving on. On this album, it happened that

every session we were able to record came between work loads that rendered us at that point of sleeping

and waking. Like the poppy fields in wizard of oz, we went in and out of consciousness at various times

during recording. This is not a bad thing. Nor does it make the record sound like we’re asleep. It has the

momentum of that place between sleep and being awake, and in that narrow slip of existence lies a landscape

of reason that most of us hurry past in daily lives. This record is planted firmly there” “Between the

crystal clear focus of your day to day and the luxury of sweet fuzzy sleep, we welcome you to the blurry

blue mountain