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"See the sky a broil and the color of blood orange. Hear the crackin’ singe of the front metal screen door hinge. Loving like lovers that know they’re going to hang. Sweating bullets and reloading over and over again…Rain is only a rumor, over before it has begun." -From the song Blood Orange



Welcome to the mind of Howe Gelb. These lyrics taken from Blood Orange the tenth track on Howe’s new cd, The Listener, are a peek at yet another stirring image from Howe, who has for more than two decades painted with a canvas of music and words. While both often times seemed to defy any sequential logic, it’s hard to argue with a career that through it’s many incarnations- Band of Blacky Ranchette, Giant Sand, OP8, to name but few-has remained vibrant and vital, always taking chances along the way. The Listener is no different. It focuses on Howe’s recent sojourn to Denmark where he lived for half of 2002 and recorded the bulk of The Listener. Making the journey so that he could be with his wife as she prepared to give birth to their second child offered Howe the opportunity to create away from his usual supporting cast in Tucson. Home, however, was never that far away, just a flip of a letter as noted above. It would be to Tucson he would return, yet the effects of this new location and the events surrounding why he was there had a profound effect on him, his music, his words and possibly now you -- The Listener.



The Listener begins with the piano based instrumental "Glisten" and leads into the piano driven "Felonius". Both aptly titled as "Glisten" does just that as it shines through your speakers, and in "Felonius" Howe addresses head on the idea he’s stealing "Lou Reed licks" on a piano. These songs set a tone for the rest of the record. One of lazy days and late nights, w.......
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