"In its unspoken manner, the album playfully encapsulates the mood and posture that have defined Gelb’s career, cradling time and experience within the modest beauty of weathered grace." - Americana UK
May 31, 2024 (Tucson, AZ):
Weathering Some Piano from Howe Gelb is out today on digital & vinyl. A collection of thirteen improvisational compositions held together by the cohesion of their creator’s signature style, the record vividly documents the process of a generational artist.
“Storms are life affirming and most likely the shape of the Creator here on the planet. For those that believe we were made in the shape of the Creator, then it validates the storms that live within us and how we are shaped by them.
The storm brings life and takes it away. We can build houses to hide out from the next tantrum, but these boxes of humans can also infuriate the matter.
My Pennsylvania childhood home town was wiped out by a flood. It delivered me out here to Arizona. It taught me something when I would reflect back on it. With the tragic circumstances that destroyed a town teasingly set up by a compliant river that instead would one day come knocking at our front door. Only then could the immense erasure of a planned existence allow such brand new possibilities beyond anyone’s scope of imagination.
The hurricane responsible was named Agnes. The first girlfriend had in Tucson was also named Agnes. The storm delivers, or so I understood.
Free falling water is still absolutely miraculous to behold. The utmost respect out here, monsooner or later. A tragic story is a trajectory.”
- Howe Gelb
Recorded in the Barrio Viejo neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona (inside a framed section of an adobe home insulated with denim to flatten the reverb and suck up the nuance) Weathering Some Piano is a collection of thirteen improvisational compositions held together by the cohesion of their creator’s signature style.
All songs written by Howe Gelb
Self-recorded in Tucson at home during random moments of weathering
Mastered by Jim Blackwood
Produced by Howe Gelb
Cover Photo by Pieta Brown
Piano in question photographed by the player
Design and Layout by Francie Chang
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