I met Earl Howard in 1991 during my first guest appearance in New York. I played at the old Knitting Factory with my trio with Ernst Reijseger and Gerry Hemingway, who had worked a lot with Earl since the early 1980s - as a duo as well as in larger constellations with George Lewis, Anne LeBaron and especially with Anthony Davis. When I founded Random Acoustics two years later, Earl Howard's "Pele's Tears" was one of the first releases on my label (catalog number RA 004). Over the years we have played together from time to time, in a trio with Hemingway in New York and Boston, but also in a quartet (with Ernst Reijseger) at the Moers Festival and at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. Most recently at Gerry's residency at John Zorn's "The Stone" in New York (2015).

Earl Howard has been developing a kind of electronic and instrumental music that is completely unique for 50 years now. His concerts in Europe are rarities - and I am particularly pleased that the time has finally come again in March 2025. (Georg Graewe)