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WEST047 |
Slow
Six -
Private Times In Public
Places
Amplified strings, guitars, and a fender Rhodes piano, are joined by homegrown software “instruments” used to process the band’s live performance. The detail and structure of these compositions reveals the group’s background in the world of modern classical music, leaning on NYC’s post-minimalist heritage while their electrified, live energy projects the palpable drive of a long-running band with deep indie roots. For a preview of their work check out Nor'ester released by New Albion (John Cage, Arvo Part, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, etc) earlier this year. Since 2000, Slow Six’s live performances have stunned crowds at festivals including Minnesota’s SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art and Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. They continue to sell-out club dates at the finest NYC venues including Joe's Pub and The Knitting Factory. They have sold-out runs at The Joyce SoHo Theater in collaboration with modern dancers and packed The Apple Store with their unique video-art immersed concerts. Slow Six can be found regularly on the airwaves of WNYC's New Sounds, WFMU, PRI’s Echoes Program, England’s The Chiller Cabinet, and have appeared on NPR's Weekend America. This fall, they begin a national tour in support of Private Times In Public Places. |
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| "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." | |
| – The Wire [read the full review here] | |
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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" | |
| – The Silent Ballet [read full review here] | |
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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" | |
| – Pop Matters [read full review here] | |
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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." | |
| – Textura [read full review here] | |
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| "The gorgeous orchestration and complex rhythms make this album an engrossing, compulsive listening experience...8/10" | |
| – Foxy Digitalis [read full review here] | |
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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." | |
| – Music Musings and Miscellany [read full review here] | |
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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." | |
| – Angry Ape [read full review here] | |
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| "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." | |
| – Audiversity | |
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| "Uncommon serenity and lushness...a space of majestic respite from Lower East Side antics" | |
| – Flavorpill | |
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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 band¹s 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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| – Brainwashed | |
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| "Arvo Part meets King Crimson." | |
| – PRI's Echoes Radio Program | |
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