Giant Sand - Live 2025

9 years after their last album together, Howe Gelb and his Danish comrades-in-arms can no longer leave it at that. Coincidences have separated them, and in many ways it is coincidences that are now bringing them back together. A brief impromptu reunion set at a Howe Gelb solo show in 2021 ignited a fame that now burns so fiercely that the inevitable becomes real.
Fans of alt-country, Americana or what Gelb calls "erosion rock" will get a chance to join the gang as they resurrect their best work and unveil new material.
In September, DeSoto Caucus & Howe Gelb reunite to pick up where they left off after their 2015 Glastonbury Festival show: It's the energetic set that first made Giant Sand fans sit up and take notice with 2004's All Over the Map, prompting Pitchfork's Mathew Murphy to note:
"I can't say for sure if it's because of the departure of his former bandmates, but something has definitely got him [Howe Gelb] riled up here. Throughout the album, he sounds as angry as a spear in an undersized cage, and the result is some of the rowdiest Giant Sand music since 1992 [...] he leads the (mostly European) ensemble through some of Giant Sand's most saturated Crazy Horsederived rockers ever."
Peter Dombernowsky, Anders Pedersen, Thøger T. Lund and Nikolaj Heyman have been active ever since. In addition to live and studio work as valued sidemen for artists such as Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell, M. Ward, Jolie Holland and numerous others, their band DeSoto Caucus, which began as a side project, has become a valued vehicle for songwriting and live shows that have brought forth some of the artistic concepts and aesthetics that have always made Giant Sand worth following.