Blog Archives

The Slow Music Movement Blog

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 strongly advise you just hit play and make up your own mind.
There's a lot of music to check these days & hopefully you'll find these recommendations a handy filter.
Trust your ears, not opinions.

31/7/2023 0 Comments

Yungwebster - Yungwebster (Sferic)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

What We Say

Chopped & screwed then diced & wrung out, southern soused post trap meets late night fentanyl spiked atmospherics, propped up on some lethargic low end frequencies to avoid total sonic collapse from Yungwebster on Sferic. Late night rap for the purple drank swilling high grade tokers & the naturally unworried, unhurried urban ambienteers.

What the Release Notes Say

An astonishing debut album of ambient rap that stretches saturated 808 kicks over dissociated AutoTuned vocals and glyding, amniotic bass. Every track is rolled out in regular, fast, and slurred versions, slanted and enchanted to enhance a sense of sensual, blunted delirium that comes highly recommended if yr into Future, Young Thug, Lee Gamble’s new one, Lil B, Iceboy Violet, DJ Screw.

It was only a matter of time before rap and ambient merged into a full syrup, something that’s been on the cards since Lil B appeared in 2010 on DIY label Weird Forest (home to Emeralds, Hair Police and Yellow Swans) with a truly eccentric braindump of stream-of-consciousness raps laced over totally anomalous ambient pads. Iceboy Violet took it further with 'Drown To Float' in 2020, granulating the edges of tracks from Lil Durk, Thugger and Gunna, and now Yungwebster propels the sound further into the blissed abyss, and in the process provides the Sferic label with its most essential release since Space Afrika’s ‘Somewhere Decent To Live’ album in 2018.

Yungwebster’s debut sweeps up tracks recorded over the last couple of years, taking the signature crawl of Southern rap that guided cloud rap's first steps (look up Viper and thank us later), and dissolving it with Ambient froth, lean-hued ATL melancholy and YouTube/TikTok micro-clique self-expression. Yungwebster is here joined by Cali producers astarii, Tavo and 6rantt, Rxmer from the Netherlands, Alabama's Sasmochi, Chicago's Dielauryn, Smooks, Cominalone, Star, local rappers Agxny and Tnotsobad, and NY producers Kacie Free and Sonofadm, all of whom contribute to the album's waved atmosphere. Each track is deployed at diff speeds, often melting into a slowed-down redux, giving a nod to DJ Screw and acknowledging the Houston original's overwhelming influence on contemporary ambient-experimental styles. He speeds things up on 'Stay FOCUSSSS', paying attention to Florida's quicker pulse, heard in music from artists like Ski Mask the Slump God and Smokepurpp, before he fades into a regular-speed coda.

Through each track, Webster works like a musicologist, presenting a wide-angled view of rap that's both nostalgic and forward facing. When he references Future's most inward material (think the soul-piercing 'Monster' finale 'Codeine Crazy'), he inevitably juxtaposes those feels with euphoric risers and psychedelic pads. On 'pull it to the side' he raps over asymmetrically Eno-esque waves and delicate, skeletal 808 Mafia-inspired rhythms. Even the commanding power of Imogen Heap (not only was she sampled on Lil B and Clams Casino's 'I'm God', but Lil B's The Pack bandmate Young L made an entire album from her voice in 2011 with 'As I Float') is referenced on the record's closer 'Coraline'. Circled by ethereal chorals, Yungwebster sings to the heavens, leaving trilling hi-hats to whirr into the clouds.

Real mesmerising gear, a proper AOTY contender.

(Boomkat)

CREDITS
Additional prod. from astarii • smooks • kaciefree • sasmochi • Tavo • Rxmer • dielauryn • star • comeinalone

Mastered by Isaacrohr & tnotsobad. Cut by LUPO.
Photography by Ruth Gaëlle Genéus.
Design by Will Boyd.

FOR MORE ETHERAL ADVENTURES IN MODERN MUSIC HEAD OVER TO THE AMBIENT POP PLAYLIST

0 Comments

30/7/2023 0 Comments

Theodore Cale Schafer - Our Blood For .S (Daisart)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We SAy

If you need a most dignified & seemly Sunday soundtrack for all sorts of glorious inactivity then sink into the ultra-minimalism, elevated ambience & genteel neoclassicism of the new Daisart enabled, Theodore Cale Schafer LP, who conducted his remotely connected ensemble of notable players from afar, encouraging them to say more with less & accentuate the beauty in restraint.

What The Release notes Say

Expanding from Theodore Cale Schafer’s introverted and veiled personal composition style, ˋOur Blood For .Sˊ sees the musician writing for a trans-american ensemble spanning Chicago, Northern Colorado, Texas, and New York City. Schafer has directed and sourced recordings from instrumentalists Tommy Paslaski (cello), mari rubio (violin), and Matthew Sage (clarinet), carefully grafting discrete parts into his own unique fidelity. Across these four works, the musicians’ arterial acoustic performances circulate around Schafer’s emotional core—enchanted by his ability to distill poetic introspection out of dry audio. A careful balance between file-sharing and Schafer’s diaristic approach allow the works to scale into both miniature and empyrean vistas—big skies and small rooms—a moving music where an audio file shot across the plains finds celestial orbit.

Schafer’s music often confronts the tropes of ambient, drone, field recording, and now chamber music to arrive at a kind of “concrete” aesthetic. “Our Blood for .S” is a clear step into a more formal approach for Schafer, hybridizing his penchant for documentation and “minor music” with a clear ear for writing for ensembles. Noble and “chapbook-like” in its immediacy, the longform works on “Our Blood for .S” establish an emotional crossfade between his digital and acoustic orientations—the merchant room in Resident Evil and the court chambers of classical and Gagaku ensembles—the dividing lines that music flows between … “Our Blood.”

Theodore Cale Schafer (b. 1994) is a musician based in New York City. Informed by his occupation as an audio engineer, his work combines digitally sourced audio, manipulated self-recordings, and parts written for musicians to create music that is equally influenced by Playstation OSTs, modern classical composition, confessional narrative, and spoken word. Recently, he has collaborated with Natalia Panzer, Angelo Harmsworth, Claire Rousay, Sydney Spann, and picnic, participated in the Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival at the Black Mountain College Museum, and curated the “Casualism” mix series with Retreat Radio in Malmö, Sweden.

- Nick Scavo

CREDITS
Tommy Paslaski - Cello
mari rubio - Violin
Matthew Sage - Clarinet
Theodore - Piano/Electronics

Mastered by Sean McCann
Artwork by Eyrie Alzate

For more, largely laidback neoclassical anomalies head over to the Slow Neoclassical Playlist

0 Comments

29/7/2023 0 Comments

Jiminil - Other Men's Flowers (Petrol Dream Records)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We Say

Jiminil rather self-deprecatingly describes his music as "quid-bin freak-folk" when really this is undoubtedly music for the record shop counter tops. So turn on & tune into this fine, freaky fusion of classic acid folk with its distinctly modern, hazy- shoegazey, indie-rocking twists & turns. It's a serious trip from this oddly underappreciated artist & his Nottingham pranksters.

What The Release Notes Say

Cameron Worne - Drums
Alice Robbins - Cello
John Thompson - Bass
Fang Jr - Electric Guitar
Sam Potts - Organs, Piano & Electric Piano
Jim - Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Assorted Madness

Recorded by Cameron Worne at Summerhouse Recording Studio
Mixed by Tom Rees
Mastered by William Crumpton
Photography by Adrian Vitelleschi Cook
Layout & Text by Jim

For more folk adventures head over to the Slow Folk Playlist sometime

0 Comments

28/7/2023 0 Comments

Cool New Singles & Hot New Artists From The Independent Music Underground - July 28th, 2023

Prince Enoki & Jocelyn Barth - Love is Everywhere RMX (Magic Messenger)

Vertical Divider

This is a fine slice of twisted, spiritual, leftfield nu-jazz that starts off innocently enough with Barth's accomplished vocals before Enoki slowly adds classic sci-fi B-movie synths, changes rhythmic tack to a reggae lilt when he feels like it & generally leaches positively vibrating, deviant fusion frequencies into the cosmic ether for the greater sonic good.
Find it at home in the Slow Jazz Playlist.

xeuphoria - Haunted By You (Self Release)

Top drawer Ambient Pop has been a bit thin on the ground in July, but more than making up for it is this (inter)stellar slice of perfectly produced, magically mixed, beatless dream pop; where the abstract ambient world of Xeuphoria & her more socially acceptable vocals swirl around each other in perfect harmony, untroubled by the rigid frame of an over enthusiastic drummer. Find it in the Ambient Pop Playlist.

Vertical Divider

Agnest Aleesy - harp song (Self Release)

Vertical Divider

A classically trained multi-instrumentalist blessed with equally impressively vocals, Aleesy shrugs off climate dread & the weight of the world to reveal an adventurously arranged, perfectly executed slice of lush, celestial soul that eases the pain & encourages you to dream of better days.
Find her sounding wonderful in the Slow Soul Playlist.

Hidden Orchestra - Skylarks (Lone Figures)

Pretty amazingly Hidden Orchestra is a one man band - apart from the live shows when a host of musicians, including two drummers, are hired to replicate the deep, dense, driving, painstakingly layered, electronic jazz rocking studio creations. So take a plunge into the swirling sonic waters & let them sweep you along to who knows where?

Vertical Divider

carm Macarenhas - Fields Of Green (BBE)

Vertical Divider

Paul Hillery is one of the UK's top, global stone turning, diggers of rare records, not to mention a fellow Northamptonian; which wouldn't mean a lot if his compilation series for BBE records wasn't unfailingly as brilliant as it is consistently obscure. Get a taste of volume III with this incredibly deep slice of spiritual folk jazz from 1970s India that oozes hippy trail, Manali Black & unspoilt Goan beaches. Find it in the Slow Balearic Playlist.

McKenzie Stubbert - Err (Curious Music)

Using a 70 year old piano with "character", lends this somewhat sombre, neoclassical ambient tune from Stubbert with its pleasantly unsettling video a perfect imperfection & childlike quality that rather like a naughty friend, slyly persuades you into its paranormal folds, before you realise that perhaps you shouldn't be there, but are uneasily glad you went for the ride anyway.
Find it in the Slow Neoclassical Playlist.

Vertical Divider

Upstairs Open - Blue Damage (Self Release)

Vertical Divider

Oddly after many years of avoiding mainstream, accessible music & leaning more towards listenable experimentalism, I'm warming to some easier listening singer songwriting of late. This return to recorded output from Upstairs Open - after a bit of a hiatus, fits my new bill & is a welcome addition to the pleasingly melodic singer songwriter joys & acoustic instrumentation of the Slow Indie Folk Playlist.

Peter martin - Not The Same (PeterMartinIsReleased)

Another cultured slice of Indie-Folkish singer songwriting driven by Martin's plaintive vocals. It starts off quite minimally before slowly adding more instrumental & production layers to fine, gently evolving, engulfing, but never overwhelming effect. Find this somewhat melancholic slice of singer songwriting also in the Slow Indie-Folk Playlist.

Fellow Hollow - Smokies (Self Released)

Vertical Divider

To finish off today's folky triptych is the well arranged & well rounded, most modern slice of roots music from Fellow Hollow, that fills the soundstage with all sorts of sonic interest whilst effortlessly walking the tightrope between augmentation & saturation. Listen to this might fine, forward looking folk tune in the Slow Folk Playlist.

0 Comments

27/7/2023 0 Comments

Jörgen Kjellgren - Living Low (The Slow Music Movement)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover LOoks like

You can also stream the song on your favourite streaming service via this smartlink -
https://ditto.fm/living-low-jorgen-kjellgren

what We Say

I'm super happy to announce the second single from Jörgen Kjellgren on The Slow Music Movement label is out today.
Hit play above to check out his dreamy, summer primed, ambient folk musings. I hope you enjoy it.

What The Release Notes SAy

Jörgen has been making a name for himself in recent years as an accomplished ambient artist with a string of releases on notable labels. With the Hollywood EP for TSMM he dusted off his guitar to fine electroacoustic ambient effect, and has now decided to get a few thoughts out of his head and on to paper. Needless to say his attention to sonic detail and mellow vibes have been perfectly integrated into this pleasantly unhurried, most thoughtful Cosmic Americana meets Ambient Folk meditation on life's ups and downs.

What Jörgen says:
After my first release on the Slow Music Movement in 2020 Hollawood (theslowmusicmovement.bandcamp.com/album/hollawood), I started writing lyrics and singing again. I've done a lot of that in the past but had gone off it for a few years. I did early morning sessions, writing rough lyric drafts and then rearranging lines, almost in a blackout poetry kind of way. I disciplined myself not to overthink what the songs were about. Or if they even made much sense. Instead, I wanted to see what stories I was telling when I wasn't really paying attention.

Now that I think about it, a lot of the music I make happens when I'm sort of looking the other way. I'll steal away for 15 minutes and jot something down or work on a few chords or a loop. Before I know it, there's a song there.

So, what's Bluebird about, then? I'm not entirely sure myself. Perhaps it's best to listen with the mindset I had when writing these songs. Don't focus too hard; there's nothing there to figure out. Instead, be with the music and see if it tells you anything.

Even if Bluebird is, in some ways, my most expansive release to date, the gear list is pretty minimal. Of course, my trusty old Gretsch and Martin guitars are there. The rest is a jumble of guitar pedals, samplers, and synths.

Towards the end of most projects, I'll come up with something that I think will spark a new album, something I want to explore further. As I'm writing this, the etudes are that thing. But who knows, not me. I do hope you'll enjoy these Bluebird tunes. I had a lot of fun making them.

CREDITS
Written, produced, and mixed by Jörgen Kjellgren
Vocals recorded by George Hagstrand
Bass guitar on On a Tuesday and 17 by Rikard Lidhamn
All other insturments by Jörgen Kjellgren
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Harriet Richardson (www.harrietclare.com)

Bandcamp: jorgenkjellgren.bandcamp.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jorgenkjellgren/
Spotify Profile: open.spotify.com/artist/49dj9JMf1fRLv9VqBggYfi
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/jorgenkjellgren

FIND MORE LAID BACK SINGERS OF SONGS IN THE SLOW INDIE FOLK PLAYLIST

0 Comments

25/7/2023 0 Comments

Fabiano do Nascimento - Das Nuvens (Leaving Records)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

What We Say

Better known for his acoustic guitar led jazz & wide ranging explorations of his native Brazilian roots music, Nascimento jumps ship to Leaving Records & changes tack to more electronic territory by teasing the summer lounging, new age & cosmic vibrations out of the machines to accompany his varied string work. Reminiscent of the smoother, more open minded 60s jazz players easing their way into the increasingly electronic 70s, he also seems to have made one of the Balearic LPs of the year.

What The Release Notes Say

Los Angeles-based Fabiano Do Nascimento is a multi-string guitarist and songwriter who melds the traditional idioms of his native Brazil (i.e., samba, choro) with the more contemporary and experimental strains of jazz, pop, and electronic music. Das Nuvens (“The Clouds”), out July 21, 2023 on Leaving Records, is a crisp, frequently blissful, and deceptively groove-oriented showcase from a consummate musician — a rich and varied collection of songs, all of which seem to prioritize, and thrive in, the soft and intentional spaces between notes.

Raised in Rio and São Paulo before eventually relocating to Southern California as a teenager, Nascimento’s approach to guitar and songcraft is informed by an adolescence enmeshed in Brazil’s exceptionally fertile musical environs. His induction into this lineage was organic. With the encouragement and attention of a musical family, a young Nascimento learned to read music, play the piano, and dabbled with the flute before picking up guitar at age 10. His affinity for the guitar was immediate, decisive, and clear. The instrument further catalyzed his decades-long journey into the annals of Brazilian classical music.

Das Nuvens constitutes the free-form, exploratory work of a musician who, having mastered a distinct musical language, seeks to apply his skill towards broader, more experimental modes of expression. Fittingly, track one — built around a contemplative, pointillistic refrain— is titled “Babel,” a reference to the legend of man’s attempt to build a tower to heaven, and how God thwarted this alleged act of hubris by shattering man’s shared language, sowing chaos and confusion. Though a stern parable on its face, it is a myth that enshrines our world’s dizzying array of languages (of modes of being), and the subsequent beauty of cultural exchange through art. In this regard, it is a fitting opening statement for an album that collapses and collages not only contemporary and classical Brazilian and pop idioms, but also the diverse range of indigenous music that Nascimento has encountered and studied in his travels as a touring musician.

Recorded in Nascimento’s home studio with his longtime friend and collaborator, Daniel Santiago (who also designed the album’s art), Das Nuvens evokes windswept vistas (the plaintive “Thrdwrld” lands like Morricone gently flirting with trap), and the lush Latin American forests of Nascimento’s youth (“Aurora” in particular), while simultaneously foregrounding music’s ineffable and universally-felt capacity to sooth and inspire.

CREDITS
Fabiano do Nascimento - 7 string guitar, 10 string guitar, oktav guitar, E. baritone guitar, upright bass and electronics.
Daniel Santiago - 6 string guitar, electric guitar and midi.
Compositions by Fabiano do Nascimento
Produced by Daniel Santiago
Art Direction from Phoebe Frances & Fabiano
Bio by Emmett Shoemaker

For more chilled, eclectic summer tunes check out the Slow Balearic Playlist

0 Comments

24/7/2023 0 Comments

Jonathan Kirby - Safe To Disconnect II (Mr. Haircut)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We Say

Put a sonic wobble in your Monday with the psychedelic schmaltz, random exotica, new age noodles, cosmic synths, lo-fi loopiness, lysergic lounge, jazz/eyes glazed easy listening & meandering minimalism of Jonathan Kirby's eccentric elevator music.

What The Release NOtes Say

Safe To Disconnect II dives deeper into the dialog sparked in 2021 with the release of Safe To Disconnect. Having assembled his home studio and crude debut in just two weeks, Safe To Disconnect II benefits from a more measured and deliberate songwriting process. While each of the LP’s fifteen compositions were composed and recorded in single sittings, the depth and dimension of each new entry renders more focused incarnations of Kirby’s previous stream-of-conscious conjurings.

Buoyed by the unexpected success of Safe To Disconnect, Jonathan Kirby left his Akai MG-614 cassette 4-track powered up for the remainder of 2021, returning to the console as inspiration struck. A Fender Rhodes was purchased from the estate of a Moravian trombonist. A Hammond organ was donated by a local bar owner. A few digital gadgets were shipped to North Carolina from India. These new elements and textures were integrated into the rich stock of cascading synthesizers, sing-song melodies, and earthy drones abundant on Safe To Disconnect.

To satisfy curiosity, Kirby set aside one evening in July of 2022 to make reference mixes of everything recorded in the year preceding. Quickly amassing ninety minutes of compositions, sketches, and experiments, Safe To Disconnect II was eminent. Fans of this new collection will find themselves revisiting the first installment; like a conversation that stretches from late night into early morning, Safe To Disconnect II brings hazy notions to brilliant conclusions. From the extravagant to the intimate, this collection is perfect for active and passive listeners alike.

CREDITS
Jonathan Kirby uses (in order of appearance): Akai MG-614 Cassette 4-Track, Taal Tarang Digital Tabla, Hammond L-133 Organ, Moog Grandmother, Casio SK-1, Roland RE-201, Swar Tarang Digital Tanpura, Farfisa SK-330, Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Roland TR-8, Venturer Karaoke System, Glockenspiel, Baldwin 334C Upright Piano, Yamaha PSS-560 PortaSound, Harmony Electric Guitar, Melodier Electric Bass, Berhinger RD-8, Tamborine, TreeWorks Bar Chimes, Schroeder & Sons 1922 Upright Piano, Fender Rhodes, Martin D16 Acoustic Guitar, Yamaha PortaSound 130, Boss RC20XL Loop Station, Rotel RZ-8 Play Mixer

FOR MORE SONIC DEVIANCE HEAD OVER TO THE SLOW PSYCHE PLAYLIST

0 Comments

23/7/2023 0 Comments

Naima - This Must Be The Place (Self Release)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We Say

I was stuck for a tip today but luckily a trawl through my Bandcamp feed led me to this cerebral & soothing ambient jazz fusion LP from Naima. Details about the perpetrator are sparse - "A saxophone and a synthesiser in London", but the music is rich in sonic detailing, cosmic, calming in nature & blessed by Naima's less is more approach to jazz & his rare empathetic gift of how it best synergizes with ambient electronica. Big thanks to Jonathon More & his tireless digging (even after decades in the game) for the tip!

What The Release Notes Say

all music by me
guitar on 4 by felix tom
artwork by halley bunn

For a longer sound bath slip into the warm relaxing waters of the Slow Ambient Playlist

0 Comments

22/7/2023 1 Comment

Jonny Nash - Point Of Entry (Melody As Truth)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

What We Say

The new Jonny Nash LP is hitting the lazy, hazy weekend sweet spot today, so if you haven't got much more than a good book or lunchtime drink decision needing your attention then hit play. His meandering, zero gravity guitar picking - free from the laws of physics, floats into the ether, letting the summer breeze mold it into minimal mantras & at other times it's met by currents from the grow room extraction fan, morphing them into ambient kosmische swirls. Tune in.

What The Release Notes Say

Melody As Truth founder Jonny Nash returns to action with his first solo album in four years.

Point of Entry, the Gaussian Curve member’s sixth solo set, builds on Nash’s recent forays into folk traditions (2020’s Poe, made in collaboration with Teguh Permana, and 2021’s Suzanne Kraft co-production A Heart So White), while delivering a clear musical evolution.

Over the course of eleven mesmerising tracks, Nash points the compass gently inwards, casting aside any conceptual frameworks in favour of exploring an imaginative and idealised “personal folk music” that combines elements of traditional acoustic music with the producer’s richly immersive interpretation of ambient, a sound he has been developing for well over a decade.

The album was created using a stream of consciousness approach to writing and recording, with Nash utilising his favoured instrument – the guitar, often doused in atmospheric effects – as a starting point. Throughout, his delicate and evocative playing takes centre stage, its melodic lines and finger-picked refrains painting aural images that resonate with positive yet contemplative energy.

From the smudged acid-folk bliss of ‘Theories’ and ‘Eternal Life’, to the layered acoustic guitars of ‘All I Ever Needed’ and the delay-soaked, Durutti Column-esque ‘Light From Three Sides’, a wide variety of musical textures weave their way throughout the album.

Point of Entry is much more than a mere ‘guitar album’ – it draws on a rich and diverse palette to achieve its purpose. The delicate saxophone work of ambient-jazz contemporary Joseph Shabason swells on ‘Ditto’ and ‘Light From Three Sides’. Cascading piano lines ripple through the crystal clear sonic waters of ‘Face of Another’, whilst echoes of Nash’s work with Gigi Masin and Young Marco as Gaussian Curve appear in the dancing synth sequences of ‘Ditto’ and ‘Golden Hour’. Nash’s reverb-laden voice also appears for the first time since 2016’s critically acclaimed Exit Strategies, used delicately throughout the album to conjure up a world of dusk and golden light.

Combining the delicate human touch and naivety of earlier Melody As Truth releases with widened scope and vision, Point Of Entry is arguably Nash’s most complete work to date – an album that’s as much a statement of his “personal folk” vision as a future ambient classic.

CREDITS
Written, Produced, Performed and Mixed by Jonny Nash
Saxophone by Joseph Shabason
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Artwork By Denise Gons
Design by Michael Willis

For more cosmic, positively vibrating chilled sounds tune into The New Age of New Age Playlist

1 Comment

22/7/2023 0 Comments

Hot New Artists & Cool New Singles - July 21st, 2023

Emmi Maaria - Midsummer Silence (Self Release)

Blessed with a great voice & viola playing ability that can only be developed by starting young, Maaria also has a pleasing disregard for classical tradition. Here she embarks on an epic slice of string powered singer songwriting that should upset the purists as much as it pleases me - orchestral drama, stylistic deviance & out the box vocals, I'm all in.
Find her causing trouble in the Slow Neo-Classical Playlist

Sunkissed Child & Telica - Palate Cleanser (A Come Play With Me)

Sunkissed Child remarkably makes her French vocal debut, effortlessly flipping between UK street style & rather more sultry Parisian chic to fine & fresh effect. Coupled with Telica laying down some cool like ice, chopped up jazz beatage & you've got a laid back, fine & funktified summer jam. Find them warming up the Slow Pop Playlist.

e c h o boomer - Sundance

Not quite sure what's going on here but being as one of e c h o boomer's aims is to surprise the audience, I'd say they're doing a good job. So strap in to this electro jazzing pop rocking flight of fusion fantasy, try not to think too hard where you'd file it in a record shop & enjoy the ride.
Find them currently getting odd looks in the Slow Pop playlist

Metro Riders - Spasm (Possible Motive)

Spending a lot of time blowing dust off forgotten music gear & long forgotten software, Metro Riders put their electro-archaeological efforts to good effect, seemingly soundtracking surrealy empty, late nite cityscapes, low lit, shady looking, graffiti blessed backstreets & pasty skinned nocturnal characters that most people will never know exist. Find them right at home in the Slowtronic Playlist.

Emily Nicole Green - Wreckage (A Little Bit of Light)

Powerful & true vocals, original songs & an obviously accomplished group of musicians in full flow have got Green's fledgling career off to a fine start. To be honest it's a touch familiar Americana singer songwriter sounding but if you're not innovating - & let's face it not many do, then you better do it well & she sure as hell does that. One to watch.
Find her in the Slow Pop Playlist.

0 Comments

<<Previous

YOUR CART

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

What We Say

What the Release Notes Say

FOR MORE ETHERAL ADVENTURES IN MODERN MUSIC HEAD OVER TO THE AMBIENT POP PLAYLIST

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We SAy

What The Release notes Say

For more, largely laidback neoclassical anomalies head over to the Slow Neoclassical Playlist

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We Say

What The Release Notes Say

For more folk adventures head over to the Slow Folk Playlist sometime

Prince Enoki & Jocelyn Barth - Love is Everywhere RMX (Magic Messenger)

xeuphoria - Haunted By You (Self Release)

Agnest Aleesy - harp song (Self Release)

Hidden Orchestra - Skylarks (Lone Figures)

carm Macarenhas - Fields Of Green (BBE)

McKenzie Stubbert - Err (Curious Music)

Upstairs Open - Blue Damage (Self Release)

Peter martin - Not The Same (PeterMartinIsReleased)

Fellow Hollow - Smokies (Self Released)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover LOoks like

what We Say

What The Release Notes SAy

FIND MORE LAID BACK SINGERS OF SONGS IN THE SLOW INDIE FOLK PLAYLIST

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

What We Say

What The Release Notes Say

For more chilled, eclectic summer tunes check out the Slow Balearic Playlist

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We Say

What The Release NOtes Say

FOR MORE SONIC DEVIANCE HEAD OVER TO THE SLOW PSYCHE PLAYLIST

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

What We Say

What The Release Notes Say

For a longer sound bath slip into the warm relaxing waters of the Slow Ambient Playlist

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

What We Say

What The Release Notes Say

For more cosmic, positively vibrating chilled sounds tune into The New Age of New Age Playlist

Emmi Maaria - Midsummer Silence (Self Release)

Sunkissed Child & Telica - Palate Cleanser (A Come Play With Me)

e c h o boomer - Sundance

Metro Riders - Spasm (Possible Motive)

Emily Nicole Green - Wreckage (A Little Bit of Light)

OUR MISSION STATEMENT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS

Archives

Categories

Lazy Days, Hazy Moments & Dancing To a Slower Groove