Lovely to catch up with Kaitlyn to get a behind the scenes breakdown of the process that went into creating her latest LP "Gush" I was not expecting it to be made this way. Nope. I had no clue. I loved being so utter wrong about it! I challenge you to listen fist to the music and then guess how she pulled it off. Utterly wild. Love it. She tells me of the sonic coffee (what resets her ear palette) The inspiration of Lex ishimoto the dancer and reveals a secret as to who she'd like to sound like when singing. Again I was shocked! This was recorded in Feb 2025.. err.. sorry! took me ages If you dont know her work you're in for a treat. She has a very unique and delightful harmonious take on the construction and presentation of electronic sound that is quite a singular take. So rare to find someone that really found their own way through. She's never repeating herself it seems. There's a great range in the catalogue which to me is always the key to a truly great artist. A true seeker.
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HOWA EP 142 - PHILIP WEINROBE
Welcome Philip Weinrobe the optimist. It’s downright infectious to hang with this chap. His bright-eyed, freewheeling attitude is not something that can be put on. Well at least, I feel you know when it's an act. In Philip's case it's interwoven into his worldview. What I'm saying is. He’s really that guy and it’s a wonderful thing! I was happy to learn of his wigglesome ride through this thing called life that led him work with some of the modern greats like Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief), Tomberlin, and Theo Katzman (Vulfpeck) ______________ Dipping into the Phil links: Don ellis was mentioned in the chat. I wasn’t aware. He was the real deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8kfgJ_ZBk Phil teaches - sonic scoop walk through of a mix. So much to learn here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ-Fc_Nm_H8 Alanis Morissette made an ambient record :) Phil was involved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storm_Before_the_Calm ____________ music that you hear peppered through the show comes from David Carlisle You can find the music here and directly show some support: https://davidcarlisle.bandcamp.com/ His instagram is: davidbloodyhaynes ______________ During the intro I float the idea of sharing my latest studio experiments on Samply to you at the Patreon hub. Interesting ?
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HOWA EP 141 - PASCAL LE BOEUF
My new album PLACES OF UNKNOWING has arrived link to LP (release date July 18th 2025) https://lnk.to/placesofunknowing WOO!! Let's get on with the show! Meet Pascal :) What a treat it has been to welcome this man into my life Not only did he give me confidence and skills to play the piano for the first time in my life, he toiled to transcribe my vocal multitracks and save them from dying on the hard drive. He sat with me and the recording crew in the studio for 5 hours to assist our cellist as this same song took shape With patience and encouragement that’s very rare and deeply contagious. Speaking my language just as fluently as the classic players He’s been the bridge to many lands This new LP - Places of Unknowing that’s OUT July 18th 2025 Would not have existed without Pascal. It’s as simple as that. He set the ball rolling and helped me so so much along the way. I was watching the live show footage last night. The concert of the record that was performed in Nashville March 2025 with a wonderful group of musicians. Some of them were professional like Rob Burger, Ethan Jodziewicz and Lee Vinson but many students joined from Blair college of music. Pascal was working at the school at the time and drummed up interest, found us a room to practice in and kept it all together with so little time. He not only found all these great players but he then remade arrangements from the album for woodwind Beautiful arrangements. I was in tears last night. Just thinking of that night and all the time leading up to it It took so long and so much energy to pull it together. Life has moved from that time and now Pascal is leaving to MIT in Boston with his wife and kids I couldn’t be happier for them !!! I mean come on. MIT!!! He really is one of the most inspiring people I’ve met and I’m so happy to get to share this pod and the window it opens to his world. With one grammy under his belt already, watch out for him This will not be the last time you hear about Pascal. He’s the real deal. Im very lucky to call him a friend x ____ I thought it might be useful to share some links to musicians Pascal references in this chat as many are new to me and maybe to you too :) LINKSSSSS!!! https://miguelzenon.com/videos/ https://www.daniloperez.com/video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri_Allen https://www.aaronparks.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Mehldau https://www.kurtrosenwinkel.com https://milestilmann.bandcamp.com/album/3d-concepts Thomas Adès: In Seven Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2B4KOGyTTk https://www.donnachadennehy.com/discography Louis Andriessen - Hoketus (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=palDwGpg3ME
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HOWA EP 140 - ROB BURGER
He lives across the street and happens to be one of my fave musicians ever. Sometimes life is just like that right? He's played in so many rolls over the years both as a solo artist and film composer and as a player backing the heaviest like Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, John Zorn and this bloke Jamie Lidell Yep, he's opened me up to so much great music and is one of the best improvisers I've ever heard. Just flowing with the music. He sits at the piano and he's away. With the muses that circle him. Great to present this audiobook length chronology for the archives. Rob has been such an important part of my musical world here in America. He's all over my upcoming album "Places of Unknowing" and throughout this chat I play excepts from the record that were played by the man himself. here we go!!!
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HOWA EP 139 - LINDSEY ROME
ITS OUT!!! YES!!! It’s hard to believe tbh after all this time but indeed the first song from my long talked about LP “Places of Unknowning” is OUT There’s a vinyl pre-order (and digi pre-thing) for the full album and links to stream this early track the “The Center” here: https://todo.ochre.store Video from the live performance of The Center here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxUxtHkE1 You might be curious how it all came to be.... Where are these wild and powerful words coming from for example? Well I’m glad you asked since I got to sit down and record a chat with my delightful wife Lindsey Rome who wrote this record with me. Specifically, she wrote the words and I set them to music. A marriage of it’s own! She’s A lady I adore A lady I am constantly inspired by. A lady that has no end to her creativity. She’s written a lot of material with me at this point and it’s always been super rewarding to work in this way but I will say that NOTHING I’ve made with her has ever been like this. I felt like I was handed these precious truths and intimate revelations to try and merge with the realm of music. The fact I know her so well and care so deeply was both the only way to make this so rich and potent but also proved to be quite a challenge to get right. Needless to say Im mightily excited finally get to share the fruits of our collaboration at long last. It really was a team effort between the two of us and all the more sweet to send it off as a document of this time Hope you enjoy hearing how it all came to be from my best friend and true love Lindsey Rome
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