Country: US
Artist: Trio
Career: recording since 1985
Language: English
Genre: Inside out Country rock
Wayward talent, that’s Howe Gelb. Gelb and his men have been setting fire with their chaotic desert rock’n’roll since the early ‘80s. Gelb – the beatnik orator at full speed, never managing to fit his lines into metre or reason. His men, with casual disregard for notes and bars. The pulpit of absurdist theory.
Prior to ‘Chore of enchantment’ there was a long silence. They lost one of their men to cancer. Maybe that’s what accounts for the record’s concentration. They’re uncharacteristically sharp and on the ball. Granted, the ball is still chaos, but they’re on it. It might account also for the tone of reflection and strength. It takes time to decipher, or to get a grip on its absurd logic, but it’s a powerful statement. After this the long lasting configuration of the band, reduced here to Gelb and Calexico’s rhythm section (great!), fell apart. Gelb has been recording with/under various band names. But there was something special about these guys.
Wayward – I saw Gelb play solo a couple of months ago. He’d gotten himself a new old guitar effect, and he seemingly smitten with it. In short, when he hit it, the note he played would change to a random note by way of slides/slurs/whooshes of sound. He used it on every song, and told us the story of how he came by it. My girlfriend couldn’t take it. Wayward.
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