Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You

At the turn of the millennium in downtown NY, 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 their 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 The Wordless Music Series to bands like The Books and composers like Nico Muhly.  Yet it is now, following their 2007 sophomore release for the prestigious classical label New Albion, that Slow Six returns to their experimental rock roots with "Tomorrow Becomes You", an emotionally unrestrained full-length infused with taught rhythms, unravelling melodies, and detailed ambiences 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". Tignor's signature software creations (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)". The band's previous releases received critical acclaim from numerous publications including Pitchfork, Time Out New York, and The New York Times. A full UK press campaign in now under way. Tignor has also spent time working for famous minimalist composer LaMonte Young and plays violin with the US band Lymbyc Systym. "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."  WIRE / "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." 8/10" Pop Matters / "Chris Tignor's gently evocative postminimalist reveries prove one of the year's most pleasant surprises." Time Out New York (Top 10  Classical Albums) / "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. Track listing : The Night You Left New York, Cloud Cover (part 1), Cloud Cover (part 2), Because Together We Resonate, Sympathetic Response System (part 1), Sympathetic Response System (part 2), These Rivers Between Us

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