The view from scenic highway 12 in Utah
I’m intent on sharing as many of the other Mikes wonderful photographs with you as I can – here are some beauties of a tiny Pembrokeshire fishing village as Autumn returns…
You kind of have to walk along these paths don’t you?
This is an ancient Welsh drovers road that was used for thousands of years to travel from Cardigan in the west to Shrewsbury in the east….
Ornamental garden path…..
Gold miners track……
On my 4th album “Heading West” I wanted to interpret some of the North American landscapes that I had seen and felt in the music that I composed. But more than that I wanted some of the history of those landscapes to be heard in the music, and particularly in the instrumentation that I used.
This tune is about the prairies. I obviously wanted to depict wide open spaces, but I also wanted the warmth and intimacy of the piano and double bass to convey some of the folk traditions of times past. It’s not always a comfortable experience to interpret places that you are not completely familiar with, there’s a real danger of creating a cliche, as I have heard many times when the British culture or landscape is interpreted musically by others.
Anyway I hope that you like this one and can see where I’m coming from 🙂
Mike Howe 