Howlin Rain - The Dharma Wheel

Released 12th November 2021.

Over nearly 20 years, Howlin Rain may have become the quintessential independent American rock n roll band: a steam-spitting Hydra of cranked guitars, kicking asphalt dust through a kaleidoscoping travelogue of desert motels and dives, volleying forth transmissions of sci-fi poetry from the blacktop veins of this cracked and aching country.

Now, in America 2021, capping these strangest and sorest of times, the band returns with The Dharma Wheel, a six-track, 52-minute dive into a joyous fantasy realm of exaggerated present.

I wanted The Dharma Wheel to be a portal from our everyday world, the one from which you stand on hard ground and hold the album in your hands and peer into the artwork, and into another universe, says songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, Ethan Miller. You enter into that universe with your eyes and ears and mind and take a ride through free-form me