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| Slow Six are a classical crossover group based in New York City and led by composer/violinist Christopher Tignor. They released their debut album, Private Times in Public Places, on Western Vinyl on April 29, 2004, then switched to the classical label New Albion for their second, Nor'easter, released on July 31, 2007. By the time of their third album, Tomorrow Becomes You, which found them back on Western Vinyl, they were a quintet consisting of Tignor, Rob Collins on Fender Rhodes electric piano, Stephen Griesgraber on guitar, Ben Lively on violin, and Theo Metz on drums. – All Music Guide |
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| MEMBERS |
| CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR |
| STEPHEN GRIESBRABER |
| ROB COLLINS |
| BEN LIVELY |
| THEO METZ |
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| EVENTS |
| Feb 8, Boston, MA @ Royale w/ This Will Destroy You, A Far Cry |
| Feb 9, NY, NY @ Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall w/ This Will Destroy You, A Far Cry |
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| SELECTED PRESS |
"Listening
is like slipping into a warm aural bath...Tignor's beguiling compositions
move seamlessly through several stages of development, often ending up
somewhere distant from where they appeared to be headed at the
outset." |
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"The
gorgeous orchestration and complex rhythms make this album an engrossing,
compulsive listening experience...8/10" |
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"Chris
Tignor's gently evocative postminimalist reveries prove one of the year's
most pleasant surprises." |
– Time
Out New York (Top
10 Classical Albums) |
"Composer
and computer musician Chris Tignor's Slow Six exists in a rarefied realm
bordering on classical minimalism and post-rock chamber groups like
Rachel's. The band's debut release, Private Times in Public Places, is a
thing of rare, fragile beauty, urgently recommended to admirers of Brian
Eno's ambient music and West Coast minimalists like Ingram Marshall and
Harold Budd."
– Time
Out New York |
"Each
(song) has its own breath and life, and moves with a spirit that feels
like a wise and aged soul...the music becomes more lovely with every
replay."
– Brainwashed |
"Arvo
Part meets King Crimson."
– PRI's
Echoes Radio Program |
"Instinctively
marrying amplified classical strings, fender rhodes piano and electric
guitars, which they process through homegrown software instrumentation,
these classically trained musicians, led by composer Chris Tignor, conjure
up melancholic chamber music that appears to gently ebb and flow through
schisms in space and time, while the dramatic tension created between
instruments cascades over you with cut-glass perfection...8/10"
– Pop
Matters [read
full review here] |
"In
these two releases, Slow Six accomplishes something very rare in creating
spellbinding art music that's wholly accessible to the masses without
suffering any compromise to its artistic integrity."
– Textura [read
full review here] |
"Uncommon
serenity and lushness...a space of majestic respite from Lower East Side
antics"
– Flavorpill |
"Their
music can be haunting, it can be thoughtful, it can be soaring, it can be
resigned... But it is always good. If you thought you couldn't listen to
classical beyond the obvious choice cuts from Wagner or Beethoven, Slow
Six is a great excuse to delve back into orchestral music."
– Audioversity |
"If
you have a beating heart, working ears, and the patience to listen to
half-hour long tracks that have the slow, careful, and unswerving
dedication of minimalism, then you need to hear this album. 8/10"
– The Silent Ballet [read
full review here] |
"In
a word - fuck! In four - fuck, this is good!...There is a tradition of
post-rock neo-classicism exemplified by Rachel's and Clogs which Slow Six
fits into, but no band has really attempted to create pieces on this scale
before."
– Music Musings and Miscellany [full review here] |
"Indeed,
there is such a prevalent sense of unity and understanding between band
members, that it would seem Slow Six were born with their instruments
attached...You would imagine, had a composer such as Wagner been born this
century, he would be experimenting with classical structures much like the
reveries found on Nor'easter."
– Angry
Ape [read
full review here] |
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