Giant Sand - "Chore Of Enchantment" - CD 2000 Cover Photo: Maria Mochnacz

"CHORE OF ENCHANTMENT"
25th Anniversary Edition

 

FIRE 2011
Double CD
FIRECD179
 
UK
 
Produced By Tucson - John Parish
Memphis - Jim Dickinson 
New York - Kevin Salem
Co-Produced By Howe Gelb
Mastered By Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound
Published By Amazing Black Sand (BMI) except 16 - 1997 Mushed Music
All Songs By Howe Gelb
except:-
16 - Rainer Ptacek


 

CD 1
1 Overture 0:48
2 (well) Dusted (for the millennium) 3:47
3 Punishing Sun 3:13
4 X-tra Wide 3:27
5 1972 1:03
6 Temptation Of Egg 3:41
7 Raw 3:29
8 Wolfy 4:25
9 Shiver 3:59
10 Dirty From The Rain 3:34
11 Astonished (in Memphis) 5:32
12 No Reply 4:34
13 Satellite 6:48
14 Bottom Line Man 4:41
15 Way To End The Day 4:47
16 Shrine 2:03


"THE ROCK OPERA YEARS"
25th Anniversary Edition

CD 2
1 Rock Opera 3:22
2 Dusted (in Tucson) 3:22
3 Astonished (in Tucson) 4:24
4 Hard On Things 3:58
5 Francoise 2:08
6 Punishing Sun (in Tucson) 4:46
7 Chore Of Enchantment 4:14
8 Seldom Matters Again 4:21
9 Music Arcade 6:46
10 Shiver (in Tucson) 3:51
11 Catapult 5:31
12 Dilemma 2:43
13 Not Good 3:57



(Click titles for lyrics)
 

  

CD 1
Howe Gelb Toys with guitar, piano and sung some hum
John Convertino Drums some drum
Joe Burns Strum bass strum
Juliana Hatfield Backing vocals (6)
Sofie Albertsen Gelb Backing vocals (9,15)
Jim Dickinson Mellotron (2) Piano, Organ (11)
John Parish Piano, Pump Organ (15) Door Shutter (16)
Kevin Salem 2nd Lead guitar (3) Acoustic (4) Mellotron (9)
Susan Marshall-Powell Backing vocals (4,11)
Jackie Johnson Backing vocals (4,11)
William Brown Backing vocals (4)
Rich Mercurio Drums (4,9)
John Abbey Bass (4,8,12)
Rob Arthur Mellotron (4) Organ (9,12)
Nick Luca Piano (5)
Neil Harry Pedal Steel (7)
Alan Bezozi Drum loop (8)
Scott Loder Bass (9)
David Mansfield Pedal steel (9,12) banjo (9)
Lydia Kavanaugh Backing vocals (12)
Paula Brown Bass, backing vocals (13)
Rainer Slide (16
CD 2
Howe Gelb Toys with guitar, piano and sung some hum
John Convertino Drums some drum
Joe Burns Strum bass strum
Sofie Albertsen Gelb Backing vocals
John Parish Piano, Pump Organ (2)  Wurly Loop (6)
Paula Brown Bass (6) 
Evan Dando Second Voice (2,9)
Victoria Williams Second Voice (9)


Dedicated with Great Love to Thee Grand
Slider and Masterful Human Being:
RAINER JAROMIR PTACEK  1951-1997




Thanks to Kate Hyman for the severe pleasure.

ok now.
you are in a room with nothing but a candle.
no windows. no doors you can see.
you calm yourself to be at peace with this lacking.
you begin to savor the candle.
it takes almost as long to do this as it does for your eyes to adjust to the flicker light of the room.
and then there on the floor in the corner, you can just make out a silhouette of a boom box.
you push play
this is the cd that begins to play.
the batteries are low.
they won't last more than an hour.
fortunately this record is 59 minutes and 59 seconds long. but in truth, before you spied this boom box you have already found the way to be at one with the room and candle and did not need anything else. and it feels like a chore to get up from your place and reach into the corner
you hope you don't need it.
you hope it sucks.
but if it does enchant,
this too will be a chore.


- hop-a-long howe


Click here for Howe Gelb's CD Booklet notes on Chore Of Enchantment
 


Click here for Howe Gelb's CD Booklet notes on 
The Rock Opera Years