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Big Sky Tapes

October 4, 2026 Mike Howe 12 Comments

If you’re new to my music, or if you’re interested in some of my best recent work, start here:

Big Sky Tapes – brings together a collection of some of the best singles that I’ve released in the last 6 years.

Before these singles I released five studio albums between 2009 and 2015. Big Sky Tapes represents the next chapter—my independent work from 2020 onwards, and the collection I’d recommend to anyone discovering my music for the first time.

Click on the album cover for links to streaming and downloading sites and to hear previews of all 14 tracks on the album.

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come home

September 16, 2025 Mike Howe 13 Comments

My new single…about a memory of a place once known or the longing for someone lost…

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My 100th song release – ‘Blue’, a song for sunny days

July 16, 2025 Mike Howe 9 Comments

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Arcade

May 22, 2025 Mike Howe 7 Comments

My new acoustic guitar single Arcade is a memory of flickering lights, faded laughter, smoke and dark starlit nights, where every note echoes with something half-remembered, half-dreamed.

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This is my new guitar tune ‘i can help’

March 26, 2025 Mike Howe 4 Comments

My new single ‘i can help’ is out today! The cover is a photo I took of some graffiti at a train station in Portugal. It reminded me of Minsky, the alien robot from season 3 of Fargo, who roams the Earth for centuries, only ever saying ‘I can help’—but is always ignored and abused amidst the chaos of human history.

Recorded on a fabulous little Taylor Academy nylon-string guitar, with a single studio mic and blended Strymon Cloudburst and BigSky pedal reverbs to create the space and emotion I was looking for.

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Introducing my new single ‘Wanderer’

January 29, 2025 Mike Howe 16 Comments

“Wanderer” is an evocative guitar instrumental about longing, the overlooked and the untraveled.

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Introducing my new song ‘long before’

November 17, 2024 Mike Howe 16 Comments

‘…the acoustic guitar on this track does two things. It creates space, timelessness, room to breathe, but it also tells a kind of story of memories and times past, inviting the listener to project onto it their own inner worlds, which is perhaps why so many people find this song so personal and moving’

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