High & Lonesome, by The Howard Hughes Suite

High & Lonesome

by The Howard Hughes Suite

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Kevin Anthony A breath of fresh air and immediately added to our station playlist

Philip Graham Another welcome companion for my Southwestern travels, perhaps best paired with sunsets and a dark sky field of stars. Favorite track: Flow State.

Lost Tribe Sound Horizon lines become elastic on 'High & Lonesome', gently folding, melting, and rising into the blue cloudless sky. Some of the finest explorations into slide guitar these ears have heard, also The Howard Hughes Suite's most crystalline vision yet!

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	1.	Flow State 03:58
	2.	Reverie 03:23
	3.	Slow Motion Pictures 03:15
	4.	Transcendental Medication 22:28
	5.	Lake of Dreams 06:26
	6.	Desert Spirits 04:28
	7.	Hinterland 09:39

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"...[High & Lonesome's] pedal steel guitar links back to Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois 1983 album Apollo – Atmospheres and Soundtracks. A hard one to match, but The Howard Hughes Suite lives up to the task..." - Peter van Cooten's Ambienblog

www.ambientblog.net/blog/2022-02/howardhughessuite-fawnwodacianileisz/

"Famed pedal steel player Daniel Lanois once said of his production technique, ‘Let’s concentrate on what is glaringly special and make something out of it’. The Howard Hughes Suite accomplishes this feat with High & Lonesome." - A Closer Listen

acloserlisten.com/2022/05/25/the-howard-hughes-suite-high-lonesome/

"A remarkable ambient music collection, and not just for pedal steel guitar fans." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - All About Jazz

www.allaboutjazz.com/high-and-lonesome-the-howard-hughes-suite-self-produced

"...this collection springs from the American Southwest. The pleasure in the disc lies not just in the way that the artist turns that topography into textured music (a nice addition to a burgeoning genre), but also in his ability to expand the tone of his guitar..." - Justin Cober-Lake - Dusted Magazine

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"...like a lullaby in the darkness..." - A Closer Listen

acloserlisten.com/2022/01/03/2022-winter-music-preview-ambient-and-drone/

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Liner notes:

The Age of Virus.

In a time of face masks and plexiglass; lockdowns and furloughs, I have no doubt that I was not alone in becoming even more stressed and anxious than usual.

Though insomnia was stealing my nights, I was able to channel this exhaustion into something positive, and the results from this intense episode are here on ‘High and Lonesome’.

Composed, recorded, and mixed in June 2020; the whole process became a cathartic and calming experience, and I hope this will be true for listeners of the album too.
Perhaps the very absence of sleep is the invisible, guiding hand that authored and informed these sonic dreamscapes and their ethereal narratives; an aural aid in the art of losing yourself, surrendering and letting go.

Everything you hear on this album was created by using pedal steel guitar as the sole/soul sound source; at times unrecognisable, but always affecting.

The album's title refers, in part, to the 'high lonesome sound' - "...An expressively emotional, powerful and earthy style of musical expression associated mainly with bluegrass, old-time and country music, characterised by unmetered music ...".

To my ears, though, the 'high lonesome sound' is best conjured by the keening cry of the pedal steel; an aching, melancholic weeping, yet paradoxically remains uplifting.

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released February 18, 2022

All music © The Howard Hughes Suite

Album artwork © The Howard Hughes Suite

Mastering: Ian Hawgood (www.homenormal.com)

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Bottleneck slide guitar and pedal steel alchemy.
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