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.) "Completely gorgeous" - Tom Robinson
b.) "An entrancing debut that everyone should hear" - Independent on Sunday
c.) "Beautifully desolate" - Bristol Evening Post
d.) "A soundtrack for post-coital glow, embers and half-light" - Venue
e.) "...a set full of subtle splendour and hushed expectation..." - Venue
f.) "Zen Folk"
g.) "Staring Music"
h.) "Something to curl up and relax with"
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
Slow perform Face The Music at Unlit Night in Bristol
Our version of Face The Music at a recent unofficial Bristol Unlit show organised by the one and only fun-lovin' Jont, filmed by the fantastic Dave Depares and attended by a handful of poets, musicians, friends and one loveable anarchist bookseller, amongst others... A great night, as ever. Kate is playing, just beneath a pile of books :)
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