Exciting New Projects and upcoming European tour - Summer 2026
Excited to announce a new duo Folk/Americana album the Midnight Sons with Gary Heffern due out next summer. There's an interesting story behind how we bonded over not only music but discovering we both had Sami heritage from Scandinavia.
New Single That Damn Gate with our new group TINY SHINY HUMANS has dropped. Tiny Shiny Humans is a side pop project from the COVID years, with Nashville collaborators Gary Goodlow and Alex Carter and featuring up-and- coming vocalists Jeremy Stinson and Kendall Joy. And a big thank you to special guest Philly Rapper MULU.
Look for more singles to follow.
If you like my pretty voice…
Riddles Wisely Expounded, the English and Scottish Ballads
Henry Kaiser and I put some experimental music to the old ballads including a new original tune for The Silkie of Sule Skerry.
Free Improv CD releases
The Problem with Livia - solo instrumental album on 8 -string Weissenborn, piano and effects, out on 577 Records.
Vigeland - my first solo ambient lap steel improvisation around the renowned reverberation of the Vigeland museum.
Plumes of Ash in Moonlight - playing with my mentor and friend Eddie Prévost, Ståle Liavik Solberg, N.O. Moore, Tony Hardie-Bick and Olie Brice.
and more…
Available via mail order from Squidco
The Cooper-Moore Sessions
Cooper-Moore is a brilliant pianist and accompanist, a builder and creator of unique and singular home-made instruments, nad a well-known sonic explorer in the free improvisation world. After working with me in New York on a Giuseppe Logan session, CM agreed to travel to Nashville to record with Jerry Navarro, Dylan Simon, and myself. The Cooper-Moore Sessions, a 3 CD set in keepsake tin box with printed cotton wrap, features a Nashville acoustic and electric improv session, a New York session with double bassist Larry Roland wth Cooper-Moore exclusively on acoustic piano, and lastly the gospel recording The Reverend Eddie Bones, to which CM brings his own experience and insights to the interpretation of ten classic gospel tunes, with yours truly on vocals and acoustic guitar. Hats off to Cooper-Moore for encouraging the next generation of free improvisors.
Available now at Squidco
Free improv exclusively available on Bandcamp
World without Tears - My First Concerto! a concerto in three movements for electric guitar and electric violin. Assisted by the brilliant Tracy Silverman on six-string violin and Kirby Shelstad on percussion, and Alex Carter.
3 Uneasy Pieces with the London Experimental Ensemble
Where the Wind Takes Us - New, solo, ambient, cinematic lap steel album
Collected Abstractions - an hour of dynamic ambient solo guitar work set to Sean Bokenkamp's animated film. View the film on YouTube: Collected Abstractions Film
The Interloper: My live improvisational duo with UK sax man Massimo Magee to benefit Iklectik Art Lab in London
The London Experimental Ensemble
My year in London led me to a wonderful group of experimental musicians doing free improv in the style of AMM under the auspices of Eddie Prevost. A group of us formed The London Experimental Ensemble with a common purpose – to play free improvisations. Our size, at 13 to 14 musicians, is unusual in free improv but serves the goal of being smaller than an orchestra yet large enough to achieve wide aural landscapes. In 2017 the London Experimental Ensemble performed all 193 pages of the Cornelius Cardew graphical score Treatise and recorded the performance live. We next tried our hand at improvising around traditional ballads of the British isles and that record The Child Ballads is available both in CD and vinyl. We then played to a audience viewing of the film Orbit, a breathtaking visual experience developed by Seán Doran from time lapse photography data by NASA’s Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit. View Orbit here.
Recently Richard Thompson, Sivert Høyem, Wesley Stace, Marissa Nadler and more joined us to showcase several more Child Ballads in The Child Ballads: The Final Six.
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More High Line Riders? Yes please…
Yes my friends, two new albums in 3 years. The new record, "Walking Home" has been released via our friends at Blue Rose Records in Germany. Physical CDs and vinyl can be ordered from Blue Rose at the Blue Rose website or downloaded from Ed's store or via Bandcamp. Also available is the classic 1997 Somewhere South of Here in an expanded remastered edition that has been out of print for years until this reissue. And please visit The official High Line Riders website where you'll find updates and Ed's food/music/travel blog.