Slowcraft Records

27/10/2024

There's now 50% off everything over at the Slowcraft bandcamp with the code "fall50". Help us make way for what's to come next year by closing any gaps in your collection. This code applies at checkout to digital, discography purchases and all remaining physical stock. Thanks for all your invaluable support.

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/

12/09/2024

Looking forward to this evening's Weeds listening party at 7pm UK time. Join us to hang out with the community and listen to the album together in real time:

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/merch/qd23-james-murray-weeds-listening-party-2

All are welcome 💙💜

11/09/2024

It's so wonderful to see Weeds out there in the world on the superbly curated quiet details imprint:

Bandcamp: https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/weeds

Release announcement: https://quietdetails.substack.com/p/qd23-james-murray-weeds-out-now

Digital is half-price until 20th September, there will be a listening party tomorrow, details to follow. Thanks for all your fine support.

06/05/2024

...and they're back.

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/track/swift-returns

28/03/2024

Ian and I shared a little background on the making of the latest Slow Reels album Everyday Exotic. Today is the last day of half-price digital. You can easily follow the quiet details substack or bandcamp to keep track of such things:

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/everyday-exotic
https://quietdetails.substack.com/p/some-words-from-slow-reels-on-the

Shout-outs and a couple of recommendations too :)

22/03/2024

Everyday Exotic listening party this evening 7pm GMT 💚💛

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/merch/qd15-slow-reels-ian-hawgood-and-james-murray-everyday-exotic-listening-party

21/03/2024

Everyday Exotic is now the #1 ambient Bandcamp bestseller and #4 across the whole platform - a real testament to the work of quiet details and your fine support. I understand that remaining stock of the limited CD & Art Print edition is going very fast.

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/everyday-exotic

20/03/2024

Just a quick note to share that the new Slow Reels album Everyday Exotic is out today:

quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/everyday-exotic

This nine-track collection displays our more melodic side and is presented in a beautiful limited CD and art print edition on Alex Gold's superb quiet details label. Digital is half-price until 29th March and a listening party is scheduled for this Friday 22nd March at 7pm GMT.

Thanks as always for all your support.

20/01/2024

Big thanks to Headphone Commute for including Soundflowers and the Slow Reels album Sustain in fine company on this excellent list.

Ascensión por Chimo Pérez and Daniele Bogon's Del Suono e Della Luce also made the following HC Best of 2023 lists:

https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commutes-best-of-2023/music-for-withered-leaves-and-lonely-fishtanks/
https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commutes-best-of-2023/music-for-capricious-souls-adrift-in-noir-fi/

Please note that all three of last years' Slowcraft Records releases are still available in digital and handcrafted physical editions from our Bandcamp:

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/ascensi-n-por-chimo-p-rez
https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/soundflowers
https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/del-suono-e-della-luce
https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/soundflowers

Here's the last, but certainly not the least, list of music which we can all agree is special for another special year. Perhaps that is why it took me so long to get it all out. Every year since the…

31/12/2023

Thanks to Stationary Travels for highlighting Ascensión por Chimo Pérez, Gezeitenstrom - Musikmagazin for picking Soundflowers and textura for including both solo works in this year's top twenty:

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2023/12/20/2023-in-review-a-sense-of-place-and-time/
https://gezeitenstrom.weebly.com/jahresruumlckblick-2023.html
https://www.textura.org/archives/articles/2023picks.htm

I’ve drifted offline lately for one reason or another so if I’ve missed other lists I can only apologise to the compilers. I did however contribute to textura’s annual “Artist Picks” feature, my offering this time more anecdote than recommendation:

https://www.textura.org/archives/articles/2023artistpicks.htm

Thanks to you all for your support these past twelve months.

Here’s wishing us all a safe, healthy and productive year ahead.

15/05/2023

Daniele Bogon live A/V in Turin this weekend, not to be missed:

In occasione del Salone Internazionale del Libro OFF, un appuntamento d’eccezione con Spazio alle Arti in Cavallerizza. 🐎

Sabato 20 maggio ospiteremo lo spettacolo audio visivo che accompagna l’ultima uscita discografica di Daniele Bogon intitolata “Del Suono e Della Luce” (Slowcraft Records, UK).

Un continuum di circa 60 minuti in equilibro tra densità granitica e movimenti nell’aria sottile. Da una parte il suono si innalza in tutta la sua potenza disegnando paesaggi emozionali impetuosi, colmi di tensione e meraviglia; dall’altra parte le immagini creano suggestivi ambienti che evolvono continuamente, da textures digitali a lenti slowmotion che presentano quadri naturalistici intimi ed emotivi.

Convinvono quindi in simbiosi la materia sonora e la componente visiva: la prima si dilata, si espande gradualmente in un crescendo che al suo culmine accarezza sfumature noise mentre la seconda dapprima fatta di materia più digitale e sperimentale lascia spazio sul finire ad un gusto più analogico e armonioso. Un viaggio denso di suggestioni in una distesa inquieta di modulazioni ed increspature.

> Ingresso gratuito con registrazione obbligatoria al Club Paratissima
> Scopri di più: https://www.paratissima.it/soundviews/

Spazio alle Arti è un progetto promosso da Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

18/03/2022

Anne Garner's Dust Devil is out today:

2 track album