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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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• HOWA EP 138 - CRISTÓBAL TAPIA DE VEER

  I got hip to Cristobal’s work thanks to my recent TV addiction.  I inhaled all 3 seasons of the white lotus and I think I was only able to get so greedy because of the EXCELLENT music.  I usually get repelled by TV scores tnh. I feel like I know the tricks and the tones and the emotional devices and I end up paying attention to them in a bad way. My agitation stops me from getting swept up and carried away. Not so with this man’s work.  I just felt like it was so deeply connected to the lands and the mystery and power of our animalistic shadows that ride in the narrative. I was taken aback and taken away.  It’s been a long time since I found myself loving a soundtrack. I had to know more and thankfully Cristobal (I butcher his name in the pod btw to my shame!) has been fantastic to chat with. I reached out, we set a date to chat and it just flowed. I love that.  Hope you enjoy the fascinating insights he shares. He’s so humble about his ways but he clearly is no pushover, knowing what he believes in and fighting for that.  I loved this hang. Hope it gets to all to at least buy a shaker if you don’t own one!    

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• HOWA EP 137 - BIBIO PT2

  Took me a while this one. Sadly, as many of you may know, I lost my Dad. It was a very long time coming and I was "prepared" but of course death has a power that yields a unique power and the grief has hit in waves. The first week was a kind of exhaustion, then I got to feel the sadness and the reality hit me in a new and more profound way. I talk about it here in the pod so I'll not linger too long in text form. Needless to say, it's been an intensely emotional time. Shortly after this news I was thrown into full preparation for the first live show for the LP that is going to be announced (finally!) next month. I was grateful to have my passions engaged in deep musical focus. Thanks to my wife and the amazing players that can to support me, the show was a truly beautiful event. Not one I'll forget. So with all that going on, the pod has taken the back burner. I had been meaning to air this Bibio episode for a long time. A whole other perspective on the man compared to the first encounter.  I hope you enjoy the west country rambles! Thanks to all of you that shared your kind words with me about my Dad love you guys x

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