#giantsand

[e-kultura]

Koncert: GIANT SAND

Petak, 17. novembar 2023. u 21:00 // Dom omladine Beograda, Amerikana

Giant Sand su jedan od najčuvenijih američkih alternativnih rok sastava iz generacije koja je stvorila taj zvuk i pogled na svet, osamdesetih godina prošlog veka. U organizaciji Doma omladine, skoro tačno u dan kad su pre osam godina prvi put nastupili u Beogradu na svojoj oproštajnoj turneji, imaćemo priliku da ih ekskluzivno vidimo još jednom, na neočekivanoj evropskoj turneji kojom najavljuju objavljivanje povratničkog albuma!

Ograničena količina ulaznica po ceni od 2000 RSD je u prodaji preko eFinity prodajne mreže i onlajn. 

Najlegendarniji pustinjski rok bend svih vremena iz Tusona, Arizona, upravo je objavio da priprema izdavanje svog novog albuma i promociju na jesenjim koncertima 2023. godine. Ploča je zasnovana na ideji ponovnog okupljanja originalne, prvobitne postave benda, čiji članovi su, osim osnivača Howe Gelba, bili slavni bubnjar Tommy Larkins, koji se vraća u formaciju posle tri decenije rada sa renomiranim kantautorom Jonathanom Richmanom (sa kojim je 2005. nastupio u DOB!), te basista Nick Augustine iz tusonskog Dusty City Blues, nekadašnji stalni saradnik velikog lokalnog heroja Rainera Ptaceka. Upravo je ovo ekipa koja ća nam se predstaviti uz specijalnu gošću Talulu Gelb (Gelbovu ćerku!), u sali Amerikana (a gde drugde!), u petak 17. novembra 2023.

Howe Gelb je autorski pokretač ovog benda, frontmen, gitarista i pevač. Oko njegovog jedinstvenog talenta Giant Sand su stvorili svoju otpadničku karijeru, u kojoj je kroz slobodne psihogalaktičke improvizacije povezivano nasleđe roka, kantrija i folka, mnogo pre nego je muzička štampa skovala termin „amerikana“. Savremenik je njihovu muziku opisao kao „nepredvidljivu formu bluza inspirisanu pustinjom, u miksu sa sa latinskim korenima i gotik hororom“. Da nije bilo njih, sasvim sigurno ne bi bilo ni današnjih popularnih sastava kao što su The National, The War on Drugs ili Wilco.

Mada se bend nakon 30 godina rada oprostio od svetske publike velikom turnejom, posle albuma „Heartbreak Pass“, na kojoj su 2015. obišli i Dom omladine Beograda – po sopstvenom priznanju, Howe Gelb je osećao da priča ove grupe ipak nije ispričana do kraja. Nakon uspelih reizdanja prva dva albuma Giant Sand koja su usledila u međuvremenu (ponovo odsvirani i snimljeni pod imenima „Returns To Valley Of Rain“ 2018. i „Recounting The Ballads Of Thin Line Men“ 2019.), sazvao je stare drugare za još jedan nov projekat. Među njima je on sad oficijelno najmlađi član benda.

Tako će Beograd ponovo biti poprište još jednog istorijskog muzičkog događaja – povratničkog koncerta legendarnih Giant Sand. I to sa punim pravom, jer ih je još 1985. godine slušao na radiju Studio B pre mnogih evropskih metropola, zahvaljujući Žikici Simiću i njegovoj autorskoj emisiji „Tajanstveni voz“. Tako su postali deo naše rok kulture, kojoj se ovom prilikom opet vraćaju, kao stari prijatelji.

[radiolewes]

Vapour Trails #189 6th October 2022 "Phoenix Nights, and Mornings, and Afternoons."

[kowalskishish]

Music for hot afternoons. They know a thing or two about heat in Tucson. #giantsand #giantgiantsand #tucson #tucsonarizona #vinyl #howegelb #adioslosers #goodlucksuckers https://www.instagram.com/p/CgFS2oELX9V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[twistedcatmeow]

We are all in this together. Your own ability to reach enlightenment is contingent on the enlightenment of others. This does not mean that you need to go around proselytizing at people; on the contrary, you should lead by example. When you are able to walk through a fear it shows others that they, too, can walk through their own fears. When you act unselfishly, it shows other people that they can relinquish the illusion of lack. When you can be in faith and joy, regardless of your circumstances, you allow others to do the same.

Any impulse you have to become holier than your fellows is a product of the negative ego, and should be released. There is enough enlightenment for everyone, and enlightenment is made that much more by the number of people who reach for it.  The impulse to seek out your own glory above that of your fellows comes from a fear of lack – there is not enough, I am not enough, I will never be enough, and so on.  There is enough. You are enough. You will always be enough. For you are a child of God, a spark of the Divine, a co-creator of the Universe. How could you possibly not be enough?

Move out of the negative, fear-based messages of the ego and into the all-encompassing love and abundance of the heart. Whenever you catch yourself thinking about lack, correct yourself. Whenever you feel entrenched in worry or fear, focus on bringing your energy up from the solar plexus and into the heart center, in your chest.  Focus on your joy. Write gratitude lists to help you be fully aware of what you do have. Do generous things, so that you can experience the abundance available to you. The more you exercise this muscle, the stronger it will become.

#Greatness #WinWin #Unity #Brotherhood #Compassion #Equality #Community #Enlightenment #PracticalSpirituality #PersonalGrowth #DailyMessage #365DaysToEnlightenment #Ayamanatara #SeaPebbles #GiantSand

[calle-dnd]

The Ordning

You met a friendly, but rahter strange, giant in an flying castle. He told you abot the Giants social structures. 

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In an age before human and elf, when all dragons wereyoung, Annam the All-Father put the first giants upon the world. These giants were reflections of his divine off-spring and also children of the world, birthed from the marrow of mountains, the hot blood of volcanoes, andthe breath of hurricanes.Annam conceived the giants to be masters of theworld. He gave them great height so they would lookdown on all they ruled. He created a hierarchy for hischildren- the ordning- so that all would know theirstatus with respect to one another, and would know whoamong them stood nearest the knee of the All-Father.United in purpose, Annam's children built Ostoria, thefabled empire of the giants, where they lived according to the ordning. Storm giants ruled all from both below and above. They held sway over the oceans from under-sea fortresses and lorded over the land from castles in the sky. Cloud giants built immense floating cities andserved the storm giants as their strong right hands.Stone giants and fire giants settled on the mountaintopsand in the sprawling caverns beneath them, where theycarved and forged the greatest works of giant art andcraft. Frost giants defended Ostoria with the might oftheir arms, not just on the chilly peaks and glaciers buton every frontier. Hill giants sprawled over all otherlands, subjugating lesser creatures through brute force.

BEGINNING OF THE ENDAll told, the empire of Ostoria dominated the world forfour millennia before its decline began in a genocidalstruggle against the dragons that came to be known asthe Thousand-Year War.Dragons had lived in and around Ostoria in relativepeace since the empire's foundation. Conflicts betweendragons and giants in those days were personal, nottribal or regional, and usually involved bragging rights or hunting territory. Differences were settled by indi-vidual contests of might, wits, or skill. That situation persisted for generations, until the red dragon Garyx inflamed the greed and envy in its followers by rail-ing against the giants' prosperity, and they rose up in response.At least, that's what most giants believed to havehappened. No one really knows any longer what set offthe war. But once battle began, the long-standing peacebetween giants and dragons crumbled everywhere.Foes tore at each others' throats in all parts of Ostoria.There were no front lines or safe havens, only endless ambushes, sieges, and atrocities committed against gi-ants and dragons alike. Eventually, none were left alive on either side who had seen the war's beginning. Ageand brutality had claimed them all, and the few giantsand dragons then alive had spent their entire existenceat war. The Thousand-Year War didn't truly end so muchas it wasted away through attrition and exhaustion.The realm that could still be called Ostoria survived only far in the north. A few outposts and fragment king-doms, such as the fire giants' Helligheim and the stone giants' Nedeheim, clung to life in deep caverns and hid-den valleys. In the millennia that followed, even these places fell, and what remained of Ostorian territorybecame barren, shrouded in ice as thick as mountains. Since that time, many lesser races have attained great-ness and themselves fallen into obscurity. Few hints of the giants' once-great empire have survived the relent-less accumulation of years. But the giants remember. Their empire and their unified purpose are long gone, but a yearning for a re-turn to the greatness that was once theirs burns in all their memories.

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THE 0RDNINGGiant society (such as it is) is defined in large part bythe ordning, a caste system imposed upon the giantsby their gods, chief among them Annam the All-Father.The ordning determines where a giant stands amonghis or her ilk. Traditionally, storm giants have stood atthe top of the ordning. Tall and powerful, they struggleto keep the weaker races of giants from despoiling therealms of small folk and sparking conflict. The greateststorm giants are powerful seers, skilled at identifyingand interpreting cosmic signs and divine omens. Thealoof and aristocratic cloud giants, one step below thestorm giants, rarely condescend to deal with lessergiants or small folk. Extravagance defines their cultureand their place in the ordning. Below them are the tyrannical,warmongering fire giants and the merciless,predatory frost giants. Fire giants rank themselves bytheir forging skill, whereas frost giants rank themselvesby their martial prowess. Near the bottom of the ordningare the xenophobic stone giants, who mostly liveunderground and regard the surface world as a realmof dreams. How well they sculpt stone determines theirplace among their peers. The lowest and smallest of thetrue giants are the hill giants, as gluttonous as they areloathsome. Hill giants are dullards who live in fear oftheir more powerful giant cousins. In hill giant society,the biggest rule.

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Something must have happened because the Giants are moving about and chaos, disorder and mayhem is in their tracks. Zephyros doesnt know why and have tried to scry and contact other planes to understand the cause. He is troubled but also a bit crazed as it seems...

[cliggomusic]

Listen to Giant Sand for free: https://music.cliggo.com/artist/349180-Giant_Sand

[trianchelon]

[kidcongopowers]

Listening to Giant Sand “ Return To The Valley Of Rain” a momentous revisited update new take shake shake of a time. Proud to brag that @howegelb @gabrielsullivanmusic @sistertown and the band invited me to scrawl a bit of slide baritone guitar on a track or 2. Dig it. Thanks #giantsand #tucson #valleyofrain (at Tucson, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqlUnJWgeEA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mvs6sd8w4xgv

[danielmartindiaz]

Snapping a photo of @howegelb #GiantSand

[marc-neys-aka-swoon]

More work@home music #giantsand #ialsolikecds (bij Blaasveld, Antwerpen, Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUHgWoytb0v/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mekaeli]

ENG - without the pandemic, I would be at the @primavera_sound drawing concert for @psgraphic. Since I won’t have new livedrawing to share this year, I’ll post the ones I prefer from each year. Today is 2015 with Giant Sand. ES - De no ser por la pandemia, esta noche estaría de conciertos en el Primavera Sound. Como no tendré conciertos nuevos por enseñar este año, compensaré publicando los que más me gustaron de cada año. Hoy los mejores dibujos del 2015. Con Giant Sand #primaverasound #primaverasound2015 #illustration #sketch #livesketchers #livesketch #pentelbrushpen #watercolor #bcn #barcelona #GiantSand #photoshop https://www.instagram.com/p/CBB41PyqCn_/?igshid=sm1d8v4p56w

[garbsafari]

"Polena" -the first single by this southwestern instrumental group who would shortly rebrand as the Friends of Dean Martinez due to pressure from Deano's estate. The band combines Americana with electronica, ambient, lounge, psychedelia and dub and intertwines surf rock-inspired lead guitars. Members of Calexico and Giant Sand have played in their loose roster. (b/w Seashells; Sub Pop, 1995) . . . #vinyl #record #45 #waxwednesday #vinylgram #garbsafari #friendsofdeanmartinez #calexico #giantsand #instrumental #subpop #nakedprey

[alexvcook]

Young fresh folk look to me as pathfinder! #giantsand #vinyl #vinyligclub https://ift.tt/2un4x8T

[kowalskishish]

A whole lot of Howe. Few things have made me miss live music as much as 'Sno Angel Wingin It (Live). Many of my favourite gigs have been big bands in small venues. @howegelb #howegelb #giantsand #littlesandbox #howe #tucson #arizona #gospel https://www.instagram.com/p/CLepmo9ra0Y/?igshid=9fdczi13yqla

[aidyfrr-blog]

We’ve got some abosolute beauts on the way via the cool folk over at Fire Records 🔥 ESG - Come Away With - Ltd Orange Vinyl. 27/07/18 Giant Sand - Returns To The Valley Of Rain. Ltd Blue Vinyl. 10/08/18 The Chills - Snow Bound. Ltd Clear Vinyl. 14/09/18 Hater - Siesta. Ltd Yellow Vinyl. 28/09/18. All available for preorder now from Five Rise Records. #ESG #thechills #hater #giantsand #firerecords #vinyl #newmusic #newreleases #vinylporn #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie

[livesketchers-blog]