HOWA EP 142 - PHILIP WEINROBE
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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...
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HOWA EP 141 - PASCAL LE BOEUF
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My new album PLACES OF UNKNOWING has arrived link to LP (release date July 18th 2025) 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...
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HOWA EP 140 - ROB BURGER
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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...
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HOWA EP 139 - LINDSEY ROME
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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: Video from the live performance of The Center here! 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. ...
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HOWA EP 138 - CRISTÓBAL TAPIA DE VEER
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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...
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HOWA EP 137 - BIBIO PT2
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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...
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HOWA EP 136 - MATT ROSS-SPANG
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I met Matt Ross-Spang thanks to Mark Rubel. Mark was an amazing knowledge and super generous chap who sadly died not so long ago. RIP to that legend. I'll never forget that trip to visit some of America's most amazing studios. We toured most of the iconic rooms in Memphis which is the city where Matt Ross-Spang has always resided. We went to Sun where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf all recorded and then on to Sam Philips recording service which Matt helped restore to its former glory. What a place! Just full of history and so beautiful both aesthetically and sonically. Matt has...
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HOWA EP 135 - SUZANNE CIANI
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What a treat it was to speak with the absolutely wonderful Suzanne Ciani who’s really a unique and outstanding woman in the world of electronic music. We get into her early use of psychedelics and chat about spirituality and the inner “little voice” which is her guide in all things. We discuss eternal sounds, how her LP “Seven Waves” was constructed from a huge manuscript. We listen to her snoring cat and chat tennis. In fact there’s a lot of tennis talk here which is definitely a first and an area Suzanne is very passionate about. Of course we talk about the exceptional Don Buchla...
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HOWA EP 134 - ROGER ENO
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YO ho ho ah.. it's a bit late for that. Sorry this WAS supposed to be a Christmas pod. The so called "escape pod" but I got struck with a brutal illness that is only just waning. I shan't linger on it as it's dull but I was down. Down, down, down like the pointer sisters are clearly singing about in "automatic". This pod is brought to you remotely from Sedona Arizona. It might sound a bit less polished as a result but it's the content that matters :) Welcome to this humble whee ramble with Roger Eno, who's had a long and successful career in the olde music game. He's left behind some...
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HOWA EP133 - TRENTEMØLLER
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Id often hear about this man during my stint in Berlin in the mid 2000s. Mostly that he had an amazing live show... who was this man? There was a sense in my mind that he was a gothic mystery, a dark figure that coaxed mystical melodies from the tarot and such but it seems like he’s a sensitive and passionate follower of his own North Star. His upbringing in Denmark really captured my imagination. Partly just reflecting on the simpler times and remembering my own childhood in the sticks and how music was such an elixir to a world with a lot less demands on the modern, dwindling...
info_outlineI met Jim thanks to the wonderful master of mastering Heba Kadry who's based in New York (whi btw that just finished mastering my new LP!)
She used him to assist in the making of her room and that set me on a journey to get my place into shape too. Him and his team at Sondhus did an excellent job and I've been loving my light and airy attic so much!
I've talked about my space a little on the show and I've shared a few pics and videos from the spot so there's evidence of it out there.
I look forward to being in here every day.
Jim's story is really interesting and it's an angle that's not been covered thus far on the pod.
He has knowledge and passion on all manner of issues relating to studio spaces, from the flow to the sound and the minimal aesthetic that is a through line in his work.
He's made rooms for Martin Gore, Laurie Anderson, Heba Kadry, Philip Weinrobe, the Juliard School in New York to name but a few.
Wild !
In this show I demonstrate the sound of my rooms and why using a binaural head for interviews and voice over is a terrible idea :) ha