Giant Sand’s Gelb For Music Doc

Filmed by same director who handled PJ Harvey's 2006 doc "On Tour".

By Blurt Staff

Whattaya get when you send Howe Gelb off on tour and have a filmmaker follow him around? Why, a Howe Gelb music documentary, of course, and if you're familiar with Gelb (frontman for Giant Sand) you know that a doc on him won't be your garden variety doc. You can see a clip from it, below.

‘Sno Angel Winging It follows the collaboration of Gelb and his band plus the Voices of Praise gospel choir. Filmed in the UK, Spain and Canada over 2 years by director Maria Mochnacz - PJ Harvey - On Tour: Please Leave Quietly (2006) - it shows the coming together and subsequent recording session and tour of musicians from very different backgrounds. In the words of choir director Steve Johnston, "Taking a gospel choir, with what we stand for - our beliefs, out on the road with a rock and roll band; you have absolutely no idea what to expect!"

In the words of Gelb:


rock documentaries suck.

this one is no different, except maybe, cause it was left in the talented hands of maria mochnaz (who shot and assembled the live p.j. harvey DVD) and follows the impossible notion of attaching an entire choir to the crinkle of desire to acquire. it works if you want it too. soothing, like reaffirming creme. loose, like cluster muck. the reliving is relieving and revealing. probably doesn't suck at all.

the end

-howe

En route, then, is a DVD/CD package featuring the Winging It film plus a live concert audio CD. The audio portion of this package will also be available as a digital download from iTunes, Amazon, etc. Go to www.giantsand.com where they are taking preorders right now.