For those celebrated guys who hit on the standards – Monk, Cohen, Bacharach, even Merle Haggard, Howe Gelb is creating new tunes with cathartic one-liners and malleable melodies that suggest any singer could interpret these dozen American piano ballads and take his offbeat worldview and make it their own. 

'Future Standards' album is released on Fire Records in UK & EU on November 25th and in North America on January 27th.

Howe Gelb - Impossible Thing

"Daringly different and dazzlingly diverse" Rough Trade

VANISHING TWIN / JANE WEAVER / DECISIVE PINK / MARINA ALLEN / RVG / MONDE UFO / THALA / BAS JAN / MARTA DEL GRANDI / ISLET / ELLA RAPHAEL / FATEN KANAAN / LUCY GOOCH / HATER / RATS ON RAFTS / JOSEPHINE FOSTER / DEATH AND VANILLA / ROYAL TRUX / KRISTIN HERSH / THROWING MUSES / THE LEMONHEADS / PICTISH TRAIL / THE CHILLS / HALF JAPANESE / SEBADOH / BLACK LIPS / THE DREAM SYNDICATE / GRAHAM REYNOLDS / AMBER ARCADES and more

Born in 1995, slim.choi (Al Ghi Choi) spent most of his childhood in Daejeon, South Korea. He learned to play piano and cello in elementary school and middle school but lost interest in couple of years and gave up. He moved to U.S. (New York) for high school, where his musical enthusiasm started to bloom. He taught himself how to play guitar and started writing songs for fun. After high school, he started going to college where he got academically suspended in less than a year. He is currently living his life making music in his bedroom in his free time in pursuit of his dream. 
The name "slim.choi" was given by his buddies when he was making rap/hiphop music, and has been too lazy to change it ever since.

Howe Gelb - Impossible Thing

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