Release Details
pressSlow Six
Tomorrow Becomes You
(Western Vinyl)
Release Date: January 26th, 2010
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Western Vinyl (current or former home of Balmorhea, Dirty Projectors, Here We Go Magic, Ola Podrida, J. Tillman, and more) announces its first release of 2010. The Austin-based independent label will release Tomorrow Becomes You, the new album by Slow Six, on January 26th, 2010.
At the turn of the millennium in downtown New York, in an era of Moby and the Strokes, Slow Six was pulling up in front of clubs, loading in music stands, video projectors, a battery of string players, and a desktop computer programmed with custom software. Reading down its twenty-minute electro-acoustic scores to stunned audiences, Slow Six helped redefine what was possible when those who grew up with both classical and rock music re-imagined their surrounding musical landscape in their own image.
Today, so-called “cross-over” music is near ubiquitous, from New York’s Wordless Music Series to bands like The Books and composers like Nico Muhly. Yet it is now, following the group’s 2007 sophomore release for the prestigious classical label New Albion, that Slow Six returns to its experimental rock roots with Tomorrow Becomes You, an emotionally unrestrained full-length infused with taught rhythms, unraveling melodies, and detailed ambiances that owe as much to Tortoise and The Dirty Three as Steve Reich and Brian Eno.
In keeping with the Slow Six mantra, this is still music that changes – and changes us -slowly over time – the virtuosic, minimalist hocketing in “The Night You Left New York” slowly giving way to its eruptive guitar-soaked finale. But a new, welcomed optimism runs through Tomorrow Becomes You – never has the band’s light shown so brightly as in the record’s finale, “These Rivers Between Us”. The signature software creations of Slow Six’s composer Christopher Tignor (free from the band’s site), which he uses to transform live sound, also make key appearances, creating unique electronic landscapes from talk radio on “Because Together We Resonate” and the players’ own performances on “Sympathetic Response System (part 2)”.
Artist – Slow Six
Album – Tomorrow Becomes You
Label – Western Vinyl
Release Date – January 26, 2010
Track List for Tomorrow Becomes You:
1. The Night You Left New York
2. Cloud Cover (part 1)
3. Cloud Cover (part 2)
4. Because Together We Resonate
5. Sympathetic Response System (part 1)
6. Sympathetic Response System (part 2)
7. These Rivers Between Us
Personnel:
Rob Collins – fender rhodes
Stephen Griesgraber – guitar
Ben Lively – violin
Theo Metz – drums
Christopher Tignor- violin, software
Tour Dates
03.27 • Glasslands w/ Lymbyc Systym (Brooklyn, NY)
04.02 • Princeton University w/ Lymbyc Systym (Princeton, NJ)
04.04 • Middle East Upstairs w/ Lymbyc Systym (Cambridge, MA)
04.16 • Casa de Popolo w/ Lymbyc Systym (Montreal, Quebec Canada)
04.17 • Ground Zero Series w/ Lymbyc Systym (Troy, NY)
Band Videos
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