Slowly Rolling Camera – Slowly Rolling Camera (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:07 minutes | 695 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Slowly Rolling Camera
Slowly Rolling Camera, teams up composer Dave Stapleton, producer Deri Roberts, vocalist-lyricist Dionne Bennett & drummer Elliot Bennett. Their music has distinct echoes of the ‘invisible soundtracks’ of UK progressives Cinematic Orchestra & 4Hero combining double bass led grooves, with shifting rhythms & arresting harmonies all skilfully performed by some of the best jazz musicians in the UK.
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Slowly Rolling Camera – Where the Streets Lead (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:14 minutes | 532 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Where the Streets Lead is the new album from Slowly Rolling Camera, following on from their acclaimed 2018 album, Juniper. Colliding the worlds of jazz, trip-hop and cinematic soundscapes, their music blends strong melodies, big grooves and surprising turns of phrase, infused with expansive emotional gravitas. With this album, recorded throughout 2020, the music takes on a greater scale which includes an 8-piece string section and a list of world-class guests including Mark Lockheart, Jasper Hoiby, Verneri Pohjola, Chris Potter and Sachal Vasandani, as well as the band’s regular guitarist Stuart McCallum.
This is an album about opportunity, about embracing unknowns and seeing what life throws at you. It’s a reflection on searching for balance, a sense of purpose and identity in everyday life. For the core group of Dave Stapleton, Deri Roberts and Elliot Bennett, it’s a unified take on the journey and the influences that have shaped them all individually and as a collective.
Where the Streets Lead is emphatic in its purpose to communicate the joy of collaboration and to communicate through an audio-sensory landscape their vision of the world. There is a boldness and simplicity in its conception balanced with the attention to detail in its production. With Juniper, their new pathway was set. Where the Streets Lead, is a natural progression and development of the bands’ exploration.
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Slowly Rolling Camera – Flow (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:17 minutes | 350 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Flow is the mesmerising new digital only album from Cardiff based trio, Slowly Rolling Camera, augmented with sublime talents of saxophonist Josh Arcoleo, trumpeter Verneri Pohjola and guitarist Stuart McCallum.
Written originally for the film ‘River of Mirrors’, a kayak film unlike any other and paddlesports cinematic experience that looks beyond adrenaline and ego, Flow is an epic sound journey, blending their hallmark emotive and cinematic soundscape with a more minimalist, hypnotic and almost spiritual-like approach. The music weaves and soars. It’s rich in colour, full of warmth and passion held together with strong, melancholic melodies and breathtakingly sculpted improvisations. Flow is the vital and compelling new edition to the band’s already vibrant catalogue who look to celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2024.
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Slowly Rolling Camera – London (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:05 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Electronic
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Slowly Rolling Camera formed in Cardiff in 2013 and brought together four wildly talented musicians from diverse backgrounds in vocalist/lyricist Dionne Bennett, composer/keyboardist Dave Stapleton, drummer Elliot Bennett and producer/sound design artist Deri Roberts. The result was a captivating hybrid of these influences: trip hop, jazz, soul, electronic music fused into a new and unique soundscape. The product was their eponymous album, released on Edition Records in February 2014, described by The Guardian as a ‘powerful newcomer with Rising Star written all over it.
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