Luke Howard

Luke Howard – All of Us (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:22 minutes | 862 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

In All of Us, Howard’s sonic compositions become a musical language through which he responds to the calamities and destruction of the contemporary world — not reflecting or mirroring them, but speaking to them and illuminating the aural sensations they produce. There are moments in All of Us where it’s clear that Howard has scored music for films, with sweeping orchestral crescendos that could be used to mark visual denouements in works of combat cinema (for example, in the fourth track An Hour Off For Friendship). Yet largely, the tracks are bound by their collective sense of unease and our shared sense of precarity.
(more…)

Luke Howard – All of Us (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:22 minutes | 862 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

In All of Us, Howard’s sonic compositions become a musical language through which he responds to the calamities and destruction of the contemporary world — not reflecting or mirroring them, but speaking to them and illuminating the aural sensations they produce. There are moments in All of Us where it’s clear that Howard has scored music for films, with sweeping orchestral crescendos that could be used to mark visual denouements in works of combat cinema (for example, in the fourth track An Hour Off For Friendship). Yet largely, the tracks are bound by their collective sense of unease and our shared sense of precarity.
(more…)

Luke Howard – The Sand That Ate The Sea (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:40 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Neoclassical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

Following the critical and commercial success of composer and instrumentalist Luke Howard’s, Open Heart Story, and its subsequent companion EP, More Heart Stories, Mercury KX/Universal Music Canada is excited to announce the release of Luke’s new album The Sand That Ate The Sea. Check out “Future Coda” and its video, from the forthcoming album now. The video was filmed in the remote outback town of Andamooka (South Australia), the striking visuals resonating powerfully with Luke’s emotive string and piano arrangements alongside guitar by Leonard Grigoryan and celestial vocals from Shards (Erased Tapes) and fellow Australian Lior.

(more…)

Luke Howard – Open Heart Story (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:32 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

Open Heart Story is a contemplative and uplifting journey ranging from intimate solo piano pieces to emotive works for a 23-piece string orchestra interwoven with subtle electronics. It opens with a beautiful piano piece called “Prelude for a Single Voice” – an homage to the composer J.S. Bach whose music continues to inspire Howard. The track “Remembering My Childhood” was influenced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Yellow Magic Orchestra – music he used to listen to when he was growing up.

(more…)

Luke Howard – All That Is Not Solid (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:27 minutes | 870 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

Australian composer and instrumentalist Luke Howard will release his new album “All That Is Not Solid”.

Named after a quote by composer and academic David Toop, ‘All That Is Not Solid’, is his most audacious and exciting album yet. It documents the four concerts Howard played in January of wholly improvised music. The result is Howard at his purest, highlighting his breath-taking melodic talent. The four weekly concerts at Melbourne classical venue Tempo Rubato in January from which these records stem, saw Howard freely improvise for an hour, before a second half of his existing tunes. The shows took place while bushfires raged in Australia. They were nearly cancelled because of the heat, but offered solace and comfort to audiences when they went ahead.

(more…)

Luke Howard – Laulasmaa (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:14 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

Luke Howard is an Australian composer and pianist.

A piano student growing up in Melbourne, he was encouraged to develop his first improvisations by his piano teacher, Nehama Patkin. Later he studied at the Victorian College of the Arts.

His album The Sand That Ate The Sea saw him nominated for ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019. It is the soundtrack to a film by Matthew Thorne that looks at the opal mining town Andamooka, South Australia.

(more…)

Luke Howard – All of Us (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:22 minutes | 862 MBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

In All of Us, Howard’s sonic compositions become a musical language through which he responds to the calamities and destruction of the contemporary world — not reflecting or mirroring them, but speaking to them and illuminating the aural sensations they produce. There are moments in All of Us where it’s clear that Howard has scored music for films, with sweeping orchestral crescendos that could be used to mark visual denouements in works of combat cinema (for example, in the fourth track An Hour Off For Friendship). Yet largely, the tracks are bound by their collective sense of unease and our shared sense of precarity.
(more…)