Marvin - Voice & Guitar
Lucy - Voice, Harmonium & Percussion
Kate - Percussion & Glockenspiel
Col - Bass
Oz - Guitar
Influences
Low, Sparklehorse, Red House Painters, Will Oldham / Palace Music / Palace Songs / Bonnie Prince Billy, etc, at times alchohol, the moon, Joseph Arthur, Richard Bach, the planets, Mazzy Star, sunshine/vitamin D, periodic creative collapses of our probablility wave functions, old skool proper rock, nature, prog rock, americana, folk, acoustica, electronicoustica, psychadelicoustica, the pointlessness of everything, the mystery of everything, older kids when you were small, Pink Floyd, Hal Hartley, Grandaddy, Mark Kozelek/SunKilMoon, permaculture, Jose Gonzalez, Kings of Convenience, Nick Drake, Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, John Martyn, Mr Webster (an English teacher), Van Morrison, the immensity and potential tinyness of cosmology in relation to the human scale, did anyone mention Low? Dirty Three, Tortoise, James (Laid), Fourtet, the Cure, Bob Dylan, Tindersticks, Jeff Buckley, Budd/Garcia/Lentz, Beck, Grant Lee Buffalo, Boards of Canada, GSY!BE, Crosby Stills & Nash, Yes, Johnny Cash, the Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, Rush, Arcade Fire, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, Mogwai, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Sex Pistols, Camel, King Crimson, ok some of these are just artists we appreciate, but it all goes into the mix... and some amazing and beautiful music discovered more recently through myspace and new connections includes Alela Diane, The Samanas, Ida, The Battle of Land and Sea, Low & Spring Heel Jack, Kaki King, Songs: Ohia, Jason Molina, Galaxie 500, American Music Club, Damien Jurado, Dakota Suite, Greg Weeks, Idaho, Great Lake Swimmers, Built to Spill, The Black Heart Procession, Espers, Cat Power, Carissa's Wierd, The One AM Radio, Chiara Mastroianni & Benjamin Biolay, Audrey, Silversun Pickups, Botch, Landing, Knife in the Water, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Hrsta, Explosions in the Sky, Scout Niblett, Beirut, The National, The Cinematic Orchestra, Bon Iver
Sounds Like
a.) "Something to curl up and relax with"
b.) "Staring Music"
c.)"Zen Folk"
d.) "Beautifully desolate" - Bristol Evening Post
e.) "A soundtrack for post-coital glow, embers and half-light" - Venue
f.) "...a set full of subtle splendour and hushed expectation..." - Venue
g.) "An entrancing debut that everyone should hear" - Independent on Sunday
On the Seeds LP:
"...sweet, breathy numbers that tiptoe between
joy and sadness, like the beautiful 'Old Crow', a languid waltz
straight from the songbooks of Red House Painters or Mazzy Star..."
"...'Seeds', a gentle ballad anticipating a time when, all home
comforts gone, we'll have to live closer to the soil and each other.
Meandering and wistful, the apocalypse never sounded so sweet."
Evening Post review of Slow at St George's Bristol April 19th 2008:
Featuring a band called Slow and a headliner whose second solo album was called Quiet, this was never going to be a gig that exactly rocked.
It did, however, live up to its potential as one of the most mesmerising gigs of the year.
Slow certainly created a chilled-out mood. Their songs were as slow and as mellow as you’d expect but it never became one-dimensional, thanks to the sheer beauty of Marvin Denning and Lucy Hutton’s harmonies and the gentle quality of the five-piece band’s stripped down music.
They certainly cast a very powerful magic and it was so easy to become completely spellbound by their bittersweet songs.
Review from Sonic Sanctuary Sunday, March 16, 2008
An optimistic Mark Kozelek could be a good comparison for the main voice of the first act Slow, and the carefully measured music that glinted behind them had a sure softness of touch that bordered on perfection.
Loose bass plucking, wavering e-bow slivers, unhurried percussion and ghostly female vox/harmonium interlocking around those lightly reverbed vocals, which seemed to be leaking from somewhere else.
Their music was pristine and dare I say it faultless – a gentleness best appreciated through closed eyes
Thanks for the add. It was nice meeting you at Glastonbury. Hopefully our paths will cross before the next one. Sadly, I missed "The Big L.C." - well, gutted to be more precise. Of course he was fabulous - he's Canadian! Best wishes
Hey Marvin Hope you are mighty, great news about Glastonbury, hadn't spotted about the LP, will get myself a copy of that - really looking forward to it, the old EP is still listened to frequently, lovely music You off to Greenman this year ?, hope to catch up with you sometime Have fun, Slaynt Vie Gyp n Jo
hmmmmmmmm your music is seductively addictive. ended up hanging around listening to your whole playlist and deciding it was time to knock off for an early lunch. :) haven't heard Oil before,I think, (short term memory problem don't ya know ;) ) loved it slan go foill, Niav
ah ha ha Marvin ! thanks for the very big laugh down under. :D yeah , well, you know ! ;) belated Solstice blessings your way, fasten your seatbelts, the ride commences! xo xo
