hanging out with audiophiles

David Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. His 2017 book The Songs of Trees won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the Natio...

Merry Chrimble y'all! Here's a sonic present for your ears to unwrap.   It's in the form of a nice fireside ramble with the excellent Stephen James Wilkinson aka Bibio.   He's a wonderful and thoughtful chap with a very unique touch and a searching soul.   I love his musical range, his tones, his playing. YES He's rather good! Im assuming you all know his stuff? If not you fools!   You must immedi...

Such a treat to chat with Jeremy aka Red Means Recording. Now you must know who he is right? If not well you're in for a treat. He's an amazing creative soul and funky chap that makes excellent music, teaches and creates exceptional YouTube videos that go deep into the synth and electronic musical world. Highly recommended viewing. He's just great. Link to his YouTube here HELLO! Yes, I realize th...

Hello! Jamie again. I caught up with this busy Fred on his current US tour.   He's been busy you ask?   Oh yes. I mean so so busy.   For one thing he's penned massive pop numbers with Ed Sheeran, Stormy and other huge acts Did you know that?   I mean BIG BIG songs.   And YET his mentor and good friend is none other than   Brian Eno!   Wait.. what? Ah yes, all shall be revealed. See the thing about...

Max Tundra is Ben Jacobs A man that was a child that grew up in London. As pointed out on his bandcamp, he went to the same school as Jude Law and a Chemical Brother, but didn't know them. In this disposable content age, there's an undeniable urge to go for quantity over quality is there not? The music Ben makes as Max Tundra comes as rarely as a celestial event. We forget the rising and falling o...

Nigel is my kind of producer He has a strong sense of quality, a strong sense of who he is and what potentials artists have to be cultivated and captured. He's my kind of producer because he gets his hands dirty and doesn't just act as a fan of the band and take on that guru role but he's in the trenches, setting up the mics for perfect phase alignment, getting all the sonic chains correct but wit...

TEED has an excellent new LP out now called "When the Lights Go" available on his Nice Age label. Check it ooot! HERE is Link to the album, tour info and loads of ace merch! If you didnt already get the Chamberlin ADT sample instrument I made here https://www.patreon.com/HOWA 4.64 Gb sample instrument of the instrument used by Bowie on Low! ahhh yes…let's get on with the show….. It's high time I c...

You may know him for his soaring solo musical adventures or maybe you're old school and you were always down with his band The Invisible. Perhaps you've seen him playing with Amy WInehouse or Grace Jones. Perhaps you've heard his collaborations with Adele, Yoko Ono or Tony Allen? Perhaps you've not come across him yet, in which case I'm very happy to make the connection. I know him as  a genuine,...

  Mr maker of the odd circuits, Mr man with a vision to create a company from the ground up that dramatically changed the modular synth world forever, Mr maker of synth woven musics. Please welcome Mr Make Noise himself, Tony Rolando! We get into chatting about his excellent new album "Breakin' is a Memory" Which you can find here Come and delve into this new work and imagine where Tony's head is...

Holly Herndon is an American composer, musician, and sound artist based in Berlin Germany. After studying composition at Stanford University and completing her Ph. D. at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, she pursued a music career internationally. Herndon's music often includes human singing voices (including her own), is primarily computer-based, and regul...

It's a first here at HOWA. YES  I've a returning guest ...... Si Bonobo ! He was here before on EP29 and now he's back to walk us deep into the making of his latest live show. It's an amazing spectacle, with a full band, ample electronics, guest vocalists, wonderful immersive visuals and a very ambitious, scalable delivery. Huge stuff! Was a treat to have him swing by my studio here in Nashville t...

First of all please send music, comments and jokes to  lidellmakeswaves@gmail.com  and I'll check em :) Feel free to join the pod patreon for the best sounds and max patches in the known universe and all that! link  HERE Let's get on with the show! Ive been lucky enough to work with Daniel on my album Compass (2010) where he overdubbed a stack of these double speed, beautiful burnt crystaline, shi...

I feel like I've been very close to meeting Marta for sometime now. When I went to the Sonic Ranch and met Brad Cooke he was mentioning this amazing woman who was a tape whisperer and I was determined to meet her. She sounded like the coolest! I had also heard her name through the master of mastering, Heba Kadry and then she sounded even more like the coolest! I managed to get in touch with Marta...

my guest is Joe Gallagher ! I wanted to speak to him after I saw he was heavily involved in the making of the album Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan which is just such a great record. I was curious to hear how he works in this capacity and in general seeing as he's quite a private person and not super vocal on the socials etc. He's worked as an engineer on music by Kehlani, Ariana Grande, Kindness,...

Dustin O'Halloran is an American pianist and composer with five acclaimed solo albums under his own name.   He released his first EP Sundoor with renowned classical musical label Deutsche Grammophon in 2019, and followed that up with his solo album Silfur in 2021.     He's also a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen with Adam Wiltzie, and they released their album The Undivided Five...

Welcome to Crimble escape pod EP 91.   Happy to share this chat with Jonathan Rado ! You may know him from his band Foxygen or perhaps his productions with     The Killers ,   The Lemon Twigs , Tim Heidecker , Whitney , Alex Cameron , Father John Misty or perhaps Weyes Blood ? I had a blast meeting him in the covid lull a while back where we had a rare face to face chinwag. We talk about his work...

Welcome to Crimble escape pod EP 91.   Happy to share this chat with Jonathan Rado ! You may know him from his band Foxygen or perhaps his productions with     The Killers ,   The Lemon Twigs , Tim Heidecker , Whitney , Alex Cameron , Father John Misty or perhaps Weyes Blood ? I had a blast meeting him in the covid lull a while back where we had a rare face to face chinwag. We talk about his work...

Hi Hope you're all well. Eat a lot and be thankful.  I'm down with that ! Here's a little pod to fill you guys in on the recording of my new LP. 2 days of pretty epic recording are done! How was it? well you'd best take a listen. 

hi  Not a pod but a hallo. A Rrrrreally quick mind dump from me to you about my new LP and it's progress. It's the reason I've been absent from pod life for a while and I will be back soon but in the meantime I hope this goes someway to clarifying the butter of my world to you all.  Hope you're funky !

Alex Bilo made the BTS mega smash hit Butter as part of a crack writing team. A song that spent weeks and weeks at the Billboard number 1 spot. Just huge. HUGE! Hear how it went down from a man I'm happy to say is my friend.   Yep it's rare I'm friendly with such big writers but we go way back now.. Ah how the time flies! Alex came up working with many badasses before he hit it big Here's some lin...

Stimming joins the pod for a hearty, autumnal, philosophical ramble which I found most fulfilling (actually we spoke in the summer but the falling leaves around here are turning my sense of time) He's been producing quality textural groovers for a long time and his new Album LUDWIG has just taken flight and he's certainly stretching himself to new astral spaces. Highly recommended! He says of this...

I was very happy to catch up with Erick Elliott aka Erick Arc Elliott or Erick the Architect, a Renaissance man par excellence. He's a prolific and talented musician and producer and is arguably best known for his work in his band Flatbush Zombies but as you will find out he's so much more than a musician at this point. He's not afraid to move into new and uncharted territory and I must admit it w...

Who is that Ned? Well for one thing  He is one of the very best players of the game of Ableton! A sharp witted and rooted fellow. He makes a lot of rather good, anarchic and playful music that can be found on his  bandcamp under the name Rude_NHS look at titles like "flocks of pigeons making noises that sound like old women agreeing with each other" cheeky rascal! that's Ned but he's also got his...

So great to catch up with my friend and old band mate Cristian Vogel on the show! The way I met Cristian was pretty unlikely and pretty fantastic I have to say. Basically back in around 1995 I was making music with Subhead alongside Jason Leach and Phil Wells and thanks to those guys I became aware of so much incredible music mostly from Detroit and Chicago but not exclusively as there were some w...

I'm so happy to have had a chance to chat with Bill Schnee about everything from the art of recording drums, to his opinions on truthful recording vs recording as a way to make a cartoon (all shall be revealed!) We get to talking about some of the legendary recordings he's made with Marvin Gaye and Whitney Houston . I mean CHILLS guys.. absolute CHILLS. Just hard to fathom the industry in those da...