New album announcement from Luke Howard October 15, Thank you for signing up! Thank you for registering! Click the link to confirm your email address. Coming in at 17 tracks stretched out over almost an hour, Open Heart Story has the room to explore, and it does.
Open Heart Story is a masterclass to a side of contemporary Australian music often left unpublicised and ignored, but from the lush strings of singles like Hymn to the more detailed and intimate, piano-backed moments, the album has a wide range that may appeal to more people than you initially think. It's also a bit of a personal release for Howard, with the album detailing a reflective period for the musician as his career continues: "Written at a time of introspection and self-reflection, Open Heart Story explores fragmented relationships, childhood memories and getting older," he says.
Find more details on the show HERE , stream the album below or buy it HERE , and learn a little more about Luke Howard and Open Heart Story as we chat about the album, making music for orchestras and films, and where he fits in the Australian musical landscape.
Hey Luke, congratulations on the album release! Recording albums is a hard experience for many musicians — how did you find it? Were there any hiccups you faced in the making of the album? Actually, it was, at least logistically, a fairly pain-free record. The only hiccup I can recall is not having our room of choice in which to record the strings, but it worked out for the best in the end — we ended up recording them in the wonderful Elisabeth Murdoch Hall at the Melbourne Recital Centre. But I think the record has a fluency and conciseness that comes from having written and recorded all the music over the approximately six months it took.
How do you work to combine these two worlds within your work? Instead, I chose a deliberately small palette of effects, and I wanted the listener to almost not notice their presence, or at least to be left wanting more.
There are tracks on the album written for string orchestras, yet also subtle little solo pieces on the piano. Or does the song just evolve into what it is naturally? Having said that, there were certain pieces such as Hymn where, after recording on piano, I thought, this has to be recorded with strings.
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