Howe Gelb’s new release, Dust Bowl. Here’s Howe’s story:
The time frame intriques…
that little sparkle of speckle filling up our sun beams so dancingly down to earth when we think out our time in history, now vexed with it’s perplex…so intense and off the chart…dense with hardship, fear and economic woe…it’s of interest to compare it to a waterless storm without end and the future offering nothing but dust…that’s what songs became then too…dancingly down to earth…
here is a sonic collection that could have been culled from such an endless season while survival and love would have to fight off each other for one’s priority no matter what unfolds, the spirit finds a way to sing through it like were only here for a blink of an eye regardless of the dusty chunk in it.
these tracks were mostly done at home with that true dust sound (and not by a computer) except nicely badly on the last 3).
the sound of survival instead of demise…a revival for the dust free one day to arise.
the end.
howe gelb
![Ashishishe (aka Curley) the son of Strong Bear Inside The Mouth and Strikes By The Side Of The Water, and the husband of Bird Woman, taken c. 1878.
Ashishishe was part of the Crow Nation. The name of the tribe in the original Siouan language is Apsáalooke, meaning “children of the large-beaked bird”. French interpreters translated the name as gens du corbeaux, meaning “people of [the] crows”, and they became known in English as the Crow. In 1743 the Absaroka encountered their first people of European descent, the two La Vérendrye brothers from French Canada. The explorers called the Apsáalooke beaux hommes (handsome men). The Crow called the French Canadians baashchíile (persons with yellow eyes).
The Crow were largely pushed westward by the intrusion and influx of the Sioux, who had been pushed westerly by European-American expansion.
The Crow had more horses than any other Plains tribe; in 1914 they numbered approximately thirty to forty thousand head. By 1921 the number of mounts had dwindled to just one thousand. The Crow were a nomadic people.
After marriage, the couple was matrilocal - the husband moved to the wife’s mother’s house upon marriage. Women held a significant role within the tribe.
Crow kinship is a system used to define family. Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Crow system is one of the six major types among indigenous people which he described: Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese.
(Source: wikipedia.org)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9qz98m1zb1qgvfkto1_400.jpg)
