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Mostly we put our daily recommendations here for the blog readers among you, although occasionally we go longform.
Reading about music is a bit like looking at pictures of food - not nearly half as much fun as getting involved, so we scribble a brief intro to hopefully whet your appetite but you're better off just hitting play. Not very "slow" I know but there's a lot of music to check these days & hopefully you'll find the recommendations a handy filter.
Trust your ears, not opinions.

23/2/2019 0 Comments

Slow Music Recommendations Round-up - 23/2/2019

Welcome to our weekly RSS feed friendly round up of this week's daily music recommendations, just in case you don't want to ride the algorithmic rollercoaster on social media.

Tilliander - Expect Resistance/Respect Existence (Dub on Arrival)

NASA has detected extraterrestrial low end frequencies through a fray in the time space continuum. Encouragingly Tilliander & the other alien life forms sound dread and like they're tripping.

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Snow Palms - Everything Ascending (Village Green)

A welcome return by Snow Palms with two epic tracks, stylistically opposed but united through drama & drive. Check out the electronically enriched, minimalism meets modern classical, glockenspiel, clarinet & vocal enhanced joys of this glorious EP for Village Green Recordings.

Richard Norris - Abstractions Volume One (Group Mind Records)

In no great hurry but with a clarity of purpose and equipment mastery only an electronic veteran could muster Richard Norris presents a welcome escape hatch to warmer ambient music worlds. Best served immersed but wafting also an option.

Lucas Arruda - Onda Nova (Favourite Recordings)

Midweek musical sunshine with Lucas Arruda as he jumps again into his soulful sedan for Favorite Recordings but manages to slam on the breaks just before driving over an AOR cliff edge. Brazilian boogie that your Mum wouldn't moan about.

A.A. Bondy - Images of Love (Fat Possum Records)

Artist discovery of yesterday was A.A. Bondy & his new song, "Images in Love" in anticipation of his new LP for Fat Possum Records. Get round the abrupt ending by putting it on repeat and check out his back catalogue is my advice.

Pablo Guerrero & Finis Africae - Los Dioses Hablan Por Boca De Los Vecinos (Abstrakce Records)

Pachamama's instrumental voices are layered onto a minimal, ambient bed of field recordings, samples & subtle synths by Finis Africae to provide a perfect bed for the unhurried, sombre yet sensual thoughts of Spanish poet Pablo Guerrero for Abstrakce Records.

Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light in the Attic)

You could do a lot worse this Sunday than discover that Kankyō Ongaku is Japanese for Ambient, Environmental & New Age music by listening to this wonderful snapshot of the genre selected by Spencer Doran for the aptly named Light In The Attic Records.

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21/2/2019 0 Comments

The Slow Music Movement presents Lazy & Hazy #3 for Radio Primavera Sound

Welcome to the third installment of Lazy & Hazy radio show that The Slow Music Movement record every month for the exciting new Radio Primavera Sound station - the offshoot of the always interesting Barcelona based Primavera Sound music festival.

Pointilism inspired atmospheric techno meets futuristic, avant garde ambient soundscapes before the most spiritual of jazz is followed by soul grooves that morph into psychedelic Americana with a bump before coming full circle back to the world of ambient techno but this time with added beats to anchor the weightlessness.

Zoltan Fecso - Wave (The Slow Music Movement promo)
Another World - Trux (Office)
Corey Fuller - A Hymn For The Broken (12K)
Duke Pearson - Cristo Redentor (Jazzman promo)
Medline & Stephane Carricondo - Relaxation Electrique (Mybags)
Ed Longo - New Life (Early Sounds)
Oso Leone - Virtual U (Apollo)
Scott Hirsch - No No (Scissor Tail)
Jeffrey Silverstein - Given The Light (Driftless)
LeonxLeon - Formant Sweep (Cracki)
Tarjei Nygard - Bleusa (ESP Institute)
Duckett - Looking at Mum Objectively (Wisdom Teeth)
Placid Angles - Soft Summer revisited (Magic Wire)

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16/2/2019 0 Comments

Slow Music Recommendations Round-up 16/2/2019

Welcome to our weekly RSS feed friendly round up of this week's daily music recommendations, just in case you don't want to ride the algorithmic rollercoaster on social media.

Euglossine - Coriolis (Hausu Mountain)

Somewhere in a galaxy far far away, there is an easy listening lounge bar where the cosmic cocktails have been spiked and house jazz band, Euglossine, have had one too many. More far out vibrations courtesy of Hausu Mountain.

Bjarki - Happy Earthday (!K7)

Get your Friday freak on with the ever inventive Bjarki's new LP of peculiar & personalized electronica for !K7 Records. From braindance to ambient via deep house & liquid drum and bass, he's got the electronic music spectrum very listenably covered.

James Place - Still Waves To A Whisper (!K7)

The ever reliable James Place has come through with another border bashing EP for Mexico's Umor Rex of his trademark, slightly dystopian, hauntology inclined, sample saturated, densely layered ambient house.

Jaze Baqti - Mnemos (Bandcamp Self Release)

Good to see Jaze Baqti back with more of his signature, stripped back, haute hip hop imagined soul, jazz, disco & house designs.

Matt Lajoie - The Center and the Fringe (Flower Room)

Exit the machine by the nearest door, take your first left & jump aboard the transcendental highway to a warmer, more caring, loving, harmonious place with the Kosmische caressed, psychedelically expressed, cosmic guitar and new age of New Age vibes of the excellent new LP from Matt Lajoie for Flower Room

Glasbird - Gronland (White Label Records)

A wonderful, cultured Sunday listen, although inadvisable if your heating has broken as Glåsbird adopts a suitably, frigorific onomatopoic, modern compositional approach to giving Greenland it's own electro acoustic ambient soundtrack using stirring strings, drones & piano for Whitelabrecs. Thanks to the excellent Stationary Travels blog for the tip.

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9/2/2019 0 Comments

Slow Music Recommendations Round up - 9/2/2019

Our weekly RSS feed friendly round up of this week's recommendations just in case you don't want to follow us daily on social media.

Dub Colossus - Dr. Strangedub (Good Deeds)

Dub don Dub Colossus is back & dialling back the Ethiopian vibes that have made this one of the most interesting JA fusion projects of the last ten years but turning the jazz and horns up to 11 to more than compensate.

Flamingo Pier - Flamingo Pier EP (Soundway)

Strut into the weekend with one of the best nu-disco EPs I've heard in a while from Flamingo Pier for Soundway Records. Tropically tinged, pop skirting, acid flirting & deep housing whilst bridging the decades with feel good, positive vibes & smiles for days.

Duendita - Direct Line to my Creator (Bandcamp Self Release)

Currently being blown away by Duendita's jazz tinted, gospel soaked, inventively arranged breath of super fresh soul air.

G.S. Schray - First Appearance (Last Resort)

Great chilled, thoughtful new age of New Age vibes, as G.S. Schray expertly deschmaltzes the schmaltz for Last Resort with a great balance of post rock, dub touches & classic piano all snuggled up in a Balearic blanket.

The Delines - The Imperial (El Cortez)

Making lyrics & Americana great again, the blue eyed country got classic soul of The Delines & El Cortez records tell the stories of America's forgotten people in the most compelling fashion.

Kenji Kihara - Dawn (Eilean Records)

If you're in need of some winter warmth and a Monday nudge then I suggest you ease your way into the week with the nature inspired ambient & gentle early morning electronic rays of the new Kenji Kihara / sphontik LP for Eilean Rec.

Andrew Wasylyk - The Paralian (Athens of the North)

Check out the Sunday suitable, Grecian harp centered, soul searching, North Sea serenading, jazz caressed, neo classically kissed, electro acoustic ambient joys of Andrew Wasylyk's great new LP for Athens of the North

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3/2/2019 0 Comments

The Slow Music Movement Radio Show #37

I'm really happy to announce that the radio show will once a month, starting from this episode, be broadcast on the excellent Music For Dreams radio station out of Denmark. If you don't know them then click the link they have a great roster of DJs showcasing the best in chill out and Balearic music, not to mention a great record label that has been running for years and has untold great music on it.

Kicking off with some pointilism inspired ambient, global folk, dreamy electronica, all sorts of cosmic dub deviance before finishing off with some emotional breaks and dubbed out Balearic disco.

Zoltan Fecso - Still, Floating World (Bandcamp Self Release)
Toquinho - Chuva Na Praia De Juqui (Mr. Bongo)
Building Instrument - Mangelen Min (Hubro)
Lo Five - A Lifetime of Intimacy (Emotion Wave)
Odd Ned - Rio Hatcha (Wheretimegoes)
Christoph El' Truento - Can't Stand The Pressure (Bandcamp Self Release)
Alborosie - Dub For The Radicals (Greensleeves)
Fred Und Luna - So Weit Wi Moglich (Compost)
Lo Kindre - I Don't Really (12th Isle)
Light Conductor - A Bright Resemblance, Abridged (Constellation promo)
Teen Daze - Hidden Worlds (Flora)
Aug Togo Meets Becker & Mukai - Before Time (SAS)
Tomasz Guiddo with Nirosta Steel - Go Back, Original Instrumental (Compost Disco)

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2/2/2019 0 Comments

Recommendations round up - 2/2/2019

Masaki Batoh - Nowhere (Drag City)

Japan's Masaki Batoh uses his strings of steel to expertly & compellingly fuse English with Japanese, circular with free picking & Delta blues with assorted shades of Americana in this psychedelic folk masterpiece for Drag City Records.

Various Artists - Two Tribes (Agogo Records)

An excellent snapshot from Agogo Records of modern African European musical cross pollination. From Afro electronic fusion to traditional sounds & fertile collaborations, cosmic grooves to club bangers, it's all here.

Mac-tallah Nan Creag - The Sorrow of Derdriu (Firecracker)

A sprawling, quite stunning deconstruction of Scottish folklore told through ancient instruments, field recordings, vocal ingenuity reimagined through the minimal, ambient & electronic eyes of Hoch Ma Toch, Other Lands & Lord Of The Isles for Firecracker Recordings

Julia Kent - Temporal (Leaf Label)

Admittedly the songs were initially composed for visual mediums - theatre and dance, but this original, moving & cultured modern classical electronic fusion LP driven by Julia Kent's consummate cello for Leaf Label really needs its own film.

Building Instrument - Mangelen Min (Hubro)

A real roller coaster LP from Norway as Building Instrument hit the sweet spot between experimental and listenable with their unique blend of Nordic folk rock pop, live drums, synths, sampling & distinctive vocals for HUBRO & travel from the cosmic campfire to the club with ease.

Ed Longo & Applied Arts Ensemble - The Other Fantasy (Early Sound Recordings)

Start your week right with Ed Longo's sultry boogie, sweet soul & cosmic ambient all wrapped up in a warming jazz embrace. The Early Sounds Recordings crew from Naples have done it again.

Kryshe - Hauch (Serein)

Sunday listening sorted with the new ambient Kryshe LP for Serein. Minimally produced with an iPad & tape machine before loops & layers of swirling found sounds, voice, piano, guitar & trumpet vapours circle & soothe.

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Slow Music Recommendations Round-up - 23/2/2019

Tilliander - Expect Resistance/Respect Existence (Dub on Arrival)

Snow Palms - Everything Ascending (Village Green)

Richard Norris - Abstractions Volume One (Group Mind Records)

Lucas Arruda - Onda Nova (Favourite Recordings)

A.A. Bondy - Images of Love (Fat Possum Records)

Pablo Guerrero & Finis Africae - Los Dioses Hablan Por Boca De Los Vecinos (Abstrakce Records)

Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light in the Attic)

The Slow Music Movement presents Lazy & Hazy #3 for Radio Primavera Sound

Slow Music Recommendations Round-up 16/2/2019

Euglossine - Coriolis (Hausu Mountain)

Bjarki - Happy Earthday (!K7)

James Place - Still Waves To A Whisper (!K7)

Jaze Baqti - Mnemos (Bandcamp Self Release)

Matt Lajoie - The Center and the Fringe (Flower Room)

Glasbird - Gronland (White Label Records)

Slow Music Recommendations Round up - 9/2/2019

Dub Colossus - Dr. Strangedub (Good Deeds)

Flamingo Pier - Flamingo Pier EP (Soundway)

Duendita - Direct Line to my Creator (Bandcamp Self Release)

G.S. Schray - First Appearance (Last Resort)

The Delines - The Imperial (El Cortez)

Kenji Kihara - Dawn (Eilean Records)

Andrew Wasylyk - The Paralian (Athens of the North)

The Slow Music Movement Radio Show #37

Recommendations round up - 2/2/2019

Masaki Batoh - Nowhere (Drag City)

Various Artists - Two Tribes (Agogo Records)

Mac-tallah Nan Creag - The Sorrow of Derdriu (Firecracker)

Julia Kent - Temporal (Leaf Label)

Building Instrument - Mangelen Min (Hubro)

Ed Longo & Applied Arts Ensemble - The Other Fantasy (Early Sound Recordings)

Kryshe - Hauch (Serein)

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