Late Aster

Late Aster

Late Aster was formed when Aaron Messing and Anni Hochhalter moved to San Francisco in 2019 and released its first EP, True and Toxic, in 2021. The San Francisco Chronicle called the record, “as impressive a local debut as I’ve heard this year… you’re guaranteed to hear unprecedented sounds in Late Aster’s very cool collisions of brass instruments and electronic sounds.”

Two classically trained brass musicians, Aaron studied Trumpet Performance at Northwestern University and Anni studied French Horn Performance at the University of Southern California. Anni (born in Oakland, CA) also performs full-time with classical chamber ensemble, WindSync, represented by MKI Artists, and is Executive Director of WindSync’s Houston-based non profit organization.

Lead engineer and producer at the live session, Charles Mueller, is Late Aster guitarist and audio engineer on all other studio recordings. Charles went to Northwestern University with Aaron and the two have been playing together in bands since 2012. Charles is now an engineer at Oktaven Audio and based in Brooklyn, NY. 

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