Rehearsals and recording my album “Island of Anywhere” in 2011. Â This guitar takes the lead on 2 of the tracks, “Sunset” and “San Francisco”
After weeks of winter grey skies, the cold, sharp air brings some sun and colour to the shoreline
We haven’t had any yet but I thought I’d share this photo from Mike Alexander of a darkly beautiful winter landscape in North Wales. Â The song is one I wrote having been out in the kind of muffled, noiseless, late afternoon light that only a snowy landscape can offer. Â It is one of my favourite compositions because it came out straight away, with no time to be influenced by anything other than the experience itself.
Imagine if you will the wide open prairie with a few scattered farmsteads, maybe it would sound a bit like this? 🙂
From the album “Time Stands Still” by Mike Howe
It was with complete surprise, followed by a buzz of excitement to be one of the WordPress Editors picks on “Freshly Pressed” today. My song “Hope” was featured and I got a badge (those of you in the UK that remember “Blue Peter” will understand my swelling pride – hehe…)
It’s funny how this virtual world that we inhabit for chunks of our lives these days has become, to a greater or lesser extent, so much part of what we do and maybe who we are. If I’m honest I both like it and find it quite unsettling all at the same time.
Which is why I’m so grateful to be able to get away from this screen and go and deal with some very real stuff, and tomorrow is no exception. Tomorrow I travel North so that I can look at, kick about in, and discuss the future of this place and one or two others. When I get out into air like this, all the anxiety disappears.
Mike Howe 