Eleni MandellHowe GelbA rare night with two distinctively-voiced and fiercely independently-minded singer-songwriters: Howe Gelb and Eleni Mandell!
Howe Gelb has been called one of the most resilient and consistently inventive American artists of the last two decades. Over the course of the last fifteen years Howe has served as front man for Giant Sand, been a member of OP8, become a label owner and perhaps most importantly become a family man. All the while amazing, entertaining, confounding and influencing fans and critics alike.
From her first album, 1999's Jon Brion-produced Wishbone, to her fifth, 2004's Afternoon (after which Los Angeles magazine named her best local singer and the LAWeekly anointed her as best songwriter), L.A.-based singer/songwriter Eleni Mandell has been feeling the love from critics and her fellow musicians, who have freely offered their hosannas and hot licks, respectively. Impressive, to be sure, but her career to this point is but a tantalizing extended build-up to Mandell's superb new longplayer, The Miracle of Five, which is at once the quintessence and the culmination of her vibrant oeuvre.
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