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The Howard Hughes Suite

Reclusive, lone, multi-instrumentalist. Bottleneck slide guitar and pedal steel alchemy. ♣️♦️♠️♥️

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The Howard Hughes Suite: High & Lonesome

Read "High & Lonesome" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Despite the group impression the name makes, The Howard Hughes Suite is the recording identity of a solo English pedal steel player, and High & Lonesome goes beyond his earlier recordings as an exercise in utilizing the recording studio as an instrument. The album presents the pedal steel guitar as an experimental instrument, sharing creative DNA with previous efforts such as the “ambient country" band SUSS and the playing of Daniel Lanois on albums like Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres and ...

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"…The Howard Hughes Suite and Geir Sundstøl’s Afterglow bends shimmery pedal steel into almost Balearic soundscapes…" - Jude Rogers. The Guardian. Folk album of the month (May 2021). ★★★★

www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/14/future-folk-friendly-faces-different-spaces-review

"The music of our dreams…". Max Reinhardt. BBC Radio 3.

"Ennio Morricone from Mars!" - Last Day Deaf. lastdaydeaf.com/beyond-boundaries-fifty-four/

"… a haunting, stark soundtrack…it’s easy to imagine the band’s namesake moving like a ghost through empty halls, Smoke from a Future Fire echoing around him." "- Petal Motel. petalmotel.com/bandcamp-friday-september-shopping-list/

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