Percy Howard, a NorCal based singer-songwriter and product of the New York no-wave avant-garde, has performed and or toured with members of Living Colour, King Crimson, Swans, Guns N\u2019 Roses (Buckethead), Oxbow, Henry Cow, This Heat, and Brand X. Percy has also shared European festival stages with Brazilian music legend Caetano Veloso and ambient pioneer Stephan Micus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Percy is the generator of the Meridiem project, which has included collaborative input from Bill Laswell, Vernon Reid, Charles Hayward, Trey Gunn, Fred Frith, Robert Rich, Buckethead, Jarboe, Happy Rhodes, and Jill Tracy, amongst others. Percy’s Genre-defying mix of rock, jazz, soul and classical influences have drawn critical attention and praise from all over the planet. Percy has recently started the record label Necessary Angel, which he sees as an archival entity whose sole mission is to spread as much sonic beauty across the world as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Influenced by the Laurel Canyon Sound, Bowie, Steely Dan, Richie Havens, and Scott Walker, but created in the context of my own experience, Percy\u2019s new album \u201cThe Stars and The Well\u201d is unabashedly nostalgic, consumed with Romance and unafraid of the fragility of love. It\u2019s a retrospective of the impact of love in my life, in all its forms\u2026 From the heights (The Stars) to the depths (The Well).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please listen with your ears, mind and heart open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Produced by Joe Chiccarelli at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, CA. October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musicians:
Bass – Kaveh Rastegar, Sean Hurley
Guitars – Joe Gore, Vernon Reid, Fred Frith, David Levita
Banjo – Joe Gore
Drums – Matt Chamberlain
Keyboards – Zac Rae
Backing Vocals and Vocal Arrangement on \u201cThe Lonely Sea\u201d – Roger Joseph Manning
Backing Vocals – Valerie Pinkston, Mia Pfirmann, India Carney
Trumpet – James Havorka
Horns – Danny T. Levin
Strings – The Section Quartet
Song Charts – Benjamin Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Advice and Coordination: Eliot Goldstein for Blue Buddha Productions<\/p>\n\n\n\n