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The best kept secret in music

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"TONY 2004 Top 10"

"Private Times in Public Places" named one of Time Out New York's Top 10 Classical and Opera Recordings for 2004

"Composer and computer musician Chris Tignor's Slow Six exists in a rarefied realm bordering on classical minimalism and post-rock chamber groups like Rachels. The band's 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."
- Steve Smith, Time Out New York - Time Out New York


"Flavorpill"

"Uncommon serenity and lushness...a space of majestic respite from Lower East Side antics" - NYC Flavorpill


"Stylus Mag - Album of the Week"

Stylus Magazine Album of the Week, August 30th – September 5, 2004

“Slow Six echo the virtuosity and compositional rigor of their classical
heritage; such is their bud and from it sprouts a blossom in the form of digital signal processing, whereby a computer, divorced from its role as a
playback device, breathes in the sounds around it and exhales its signals as an idiosyncratic voice with its own idiom. The ensuing sound, a synthesis marked by a slow continuous pulse of Rhodes piano, as well as long plaintive melodies from violin and viola, is the ripe fruit harvested throughout these three comprehensive compositions.”
- Max Schaefer, StylusMagazine.com - Stylus Magazine


"One Times One Record Review"

“The three track longplayer from Slow Six spins down like a day in the life of...you, and it does so in such fashion that the exact day is not only
blatantly specific, but ever changing depending where your head is at
each particular time you listen to it. Set usually over a great bit of
atmosphere by the rest of the troupe, Maxim Moston's violin surges through the first track, "This is Your Last Chance (Before I Sleep)" pushing the crisp top layer of music through the majority of it's twenty four minute existence. When Moston's violin does drop out of the aforementioned track, the first
dose of the computer-as-instrument sees the light of day. Previously hiding underneath the prominent elements of the piece, everything gives way to a slightly altered rhodes sound aided ever so slightly by a slight bubbly ticking noise: enter the computer as an instrument.”
- Joel Armato, One Times One - One Times One


"New York Press Record review"

“A few nights ago I dropped Slow Six's 2004 release, Private Times in Public Places, into the CD player. Considering the academic pedigree (Bard-NYU-Princeton) of Chris Tignor, the composer who put the project together, I wasn't sure what to expect from the eight-piece ensemble's recording. And admittedly, being that it was 2 a.m. when this little listening party took
place, I was hoping that with "This Is Your Last Chance (Before I Sleep)" as an opening track title, I wouldn't hear more than the first five minutes before I was off and dreaming myself. Sleep was not to come, however. It's a blissout sort of album, rolling through thoughts like molasses, but my ear was unwilling to let go of the delicate, percussionless lines. The music is ambient at its surface, but carefully constructed in a way that holds up under repeat listening. The violin's rolled chords at the end of the first track—perhaps a nod to Arvo Pärt's Fratres?—are as intense as things get. In live performance, Slow Six shares their sonic environment with Lee Whittier, who has created projections to accompany each piece. This Saturday at the Knitting Factory, Slow Six will perform "This Is Your Last Chance" for violin,
electric guitar, fender Rhodes and computer, as well as the more
compositionally complex but equally beautiful "The Lines We Walked When We Walked Once Together" for the full group: violin, viola, cello, Fender Rhodes, two electric guitars and computer.”
- New York Press - New York Press


Discography

72 minute debut LP "Private Times in Public Places" selected as one of Time Out New York's Top 10 classical records of 2004

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