"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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"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" |
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"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." |
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"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." |
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"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" |
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"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." |
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"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 |
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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) |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"Arvo
Part meets King Crimson." |
– PRI's
Echoes Radio Program |
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