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Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its...

Giant Sand (Howe Gelb) - Shiver - 2001 Play Video

Giant Sand (Howe Gelb) - Shiver - 2001

Music video for Howe Gelb's song Shiver. Song was originally released on the Giant Sand album Chore of Enchantment. Here is the official video for the song as produced by Bill Carter. The album is avaliable at...

Giant Sand (Howe Gelb) - Increment Of Love - 2008 Play Video

Giant Sand (Howe Gelb) - Increment Of Love - 2008

'Increment of Love' from the new Giant Sand release *proVISIONS* out NOW on Yep Roc Records. Video recorded in Arhus, Denmark - summer 2008. www.giantsand.com http owomrecords.com http

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Giant Sand - Stranded Pearl

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Giant Sand - Shiver Play Video

Giant Sand - Shiver

"Shiver" by Giant Sand, as performed on the album "Chore Of Enchantment".

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Giant Sand Biography

Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years--at times with each album. For a long while the band's rhythm section consisted of John Convertino and Joey Burns who left the band when their side project, Calexico, grew more widely known than Giant Sand and, as Gelb characterized it in 2004, Calexico "began to work against Giant Sand and eat away at what the band was".

Other members have included keyboardist Chris Cacavas (of Green on Red), bassist Paula Jean Brown (who was briefly a member of The Go-Go's and was married to Gelb at the time, Mark Walton (of The Dream Syndicate and Continental Drifters), drummer Tom Larkins (later to become a Jonathan Richman sideman). and Iain Shedden, drummer with Australian band The Saints.

Guest artists have included Victoria Williams, Neko Case, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Wynn, Vicki Peterson, Rainer Ptacek, M. Ward, Isobel Campbell nearly all members of the band Poi Dog Pondering, and regular cameos from Jello Biafra and Gelb and Brown's daughter, Indiosa Patsy Jean.

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Giant Sand Discography

Giant Sand albums.

  • Swerve - 1990 (Restless Records/US)
  • Cover Magazine - 19/03/2002 (Thrill Jockey/US)
  • *proVISIONS* - 02/09/2008 (Yep Roc Records/US)

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