All posts by Mike Howe

I am an ecologist and a composer of guitar based instrumental melodies signed to the Real Music label in California. I like to write about my work, music and nature conservation and how it all comes together. I try not to write about things I don't know much about.

Nice press acclaim

November 11, 2013 Mike Howe 15 Comments

Heading West, which marks Howe’s fourth journey with Real Music, features some of his most sublime music to date. The guitar is central on this release, featuring warm, carefree strumming that is accented by keyboards, piano and rhythm. Songs like “Old Wooden House” and “American Travels” have a pensive beauty to them — the guitar harmonies bear a reflective essence, as if Howe is wandering through old haunts reminiscing of past joys. “Badlands” ups the tempo a bit and adds a bit of bluesy groove, while maintaining Howe’s signature laid-back flair. A must listen for fans of relaxing guitar music.

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Mimic clouds

November 9, 2013 Mike Howe 16 Comments

Moments Lost In Time Like Tears In Rain

November 5, 2013 Mike Howe 9 Comments

This song is from my second album “Round River”

Beach architecture

November 4, 2013 Mike Howe 14 Comments

Marloes Sands

November 3, 2013 Mike Howe 16 Comments

Seal Pups And Strife

October 29, 2013 Mike Howe 14 Comments

The Atlantic Grey seals come ashore around our Pembrokeshire coast at this time of year to give birth to their pups.

The pups are white and fairly helpless at first.

The adults patrol the beaches and the mothers are understandably protective…

Usually tranquillity reigns but not always, sometimes there’s the odd disagreement….

I am so grateful to Mike Alexander for sharing these fabulous photographs with me, and you.

Journey Around The Sun – Autumn

October 27, 2013 Mike Howe 10 Comments

Ancient Beauty

October 24, 2013 Mike Howe 26 Comments

It’s difficult to do justice to the place where I’ve been working today. Dinefwr Park in West Wales is a beautiful, historic designed landscape, laid out by the people who lived here in the 17th century.

A mixture of parkland and farmland, with hundreds of oak trees that are over 500 years old. Today we were working out how to maintain these ancient trees for another two hundred years, and how to create the right conditions for their successors. So we’ve been thinking very long range thoughts today indeed.

And if that wasn’t enough Dinefwr is home to a very rare breed of the White Park Cattle. This beautiful breed can be traced back in history over a thousand years.

Ancient white park cattle Photo: Mike Alexander

And if the trees and cattle are not ancient enough, then just under the soil here there are rocks containing thousands of trilobite fossils, aged a mere 400 million years.

It was a wonderful day immersed in such ancient beauty.

An amazing demonstration of artistic talent with some quite nice music…

October 22, 2013 Mike Howe 18 Comments

Australian based artist Mike Barr is incredibly talented and here he gives a demonstration of how he constructs one of his beautiful paintings, with some of my music for background.