I made up my mind last night
I dont love you anymore, and that’s alright 

I never really liked your music
I just really liked you

I know you never meant to hurt me
You bit off more than you could chew

I’m feeling blue
Cuz I, I hate you

And I 
I wanna die

Peacemaker

Desire Path

Type of Girl

Angel in the Darkness

The Breaks

Slow Heart Music is the acoustic side project of ambient and drone musician Ben Rath. Based in Manchester, UK, Ben has released music under his own name with labels including Sound in Silence, Unknown Tone Records, Eilean Rec., Cathedral Transmissions, Moonswing Netlabel, Triple Moon Records and Whitelabrecs. As Slow Heart Music, Ben focuses more closely on solo acoustic guitar instrumentals and has released albums exclusively through Whitelabrecs.
The majority of Ben's musical output finds its home in the rich and diverse territory of experimental ambient and drone music. Ben creates compositions using original recordings of guitar, keyboard, and piano, as well as samples, field recordings, and digital synthesizers. These sounds from various sources are then moulded, transformed, and edited together to form instrumental arrangements which span a wide variety of styles, tones, and emotional registers, with inspiration drawn from pioneers in the genre such as Tim Hecker and Lawrence English, the early ambient works of artists such as Sean McCann and Colleen, and the emotional weight and resonance of Constellation Records greats such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Esmerine (among many others).

Under the Slow Heart Music moniker, Ben strips things back to explore the simple joy of the acoustic guitar. His playing, influenced by the likes of Eric Chenaux and Richard Dawson, as well as the gentle beauty of solo piano works from artists such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds, combines a sense of playful and spontaneous improvisation with arrangements and compositions that often express a gentle and tender emotion.

For his new album ‘Hope’, Ben returns to the artful acoustic arrangements and soulful guitar playing that marked his debut as Slow Heart Music, ‘This Body Is Not Me’ (2017). Armed with the same £5 half-size classical guitar which was used to record the first time around, Ben adds a second classical acoustic borrowed from his girlfriend in the spirit of using whatever was to hand to create with. He had a vision for the sound he wanted to achieve, which builds on influences from artists that embrace the mournful and melancholic, but also find beauty and uplift amidst the sadness. As Ben explains, “I’ve struggled with my mental health ever since adolescence, and music was the thing that often provided me with the most solace and comfort. The artists that inspired me were those who were expressing something that felt real to my experience, that taught me that I was not as alone in my feelings of deep sadness and anxiety as I often felt, and that meaning and beauty could still be found and expressed in the midst of it all.’’

Those who know him would describe Ben as a quiet, calm, and reserved person, but his music is the space where he is able to express himself more fully. ‘Hope’ is a collection of soft and minimal pieces, steeped in emotion and feeling, at times mournful, at others uplifting, but never seeking to prematurely soothe or distract from the suffering of the world, instead sitting in the mud of it all, and seeing what can be created from there. It is Ben’s sincere hope that his music may help some other lonely soul feel that little bit more connected and understood.

Hope

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Dawsy - I'm Tired Of People an album
Dawsy's debut studio album

Tracklist:
1: I'm Tired Of People
2. Trouble
3. Dawsy's Theme
4. Still Do
5. Poison
6.  Karma
7. Crossed Boundaries
8. If We're Going To War Wear A Vest

Trouble

A true story about Dennis Hope, the man who owns the moon and has made millions of dollars from selling extraterrestrial real estate. I was fascinated by the story and simply loved the creative and entrepreneurial nature of it.  It inspired me to write a song about his amazing story. The song also has an underlying positive narrative and message of "have hope" for listeners to hear Dennis' story and to be inspired for their ideas too, as by believing in your ideas, you too can reach the moon - you just need to "have hope". Dennis Hope has heard the track and LOVES it and is fully behind the song - he has also gifted me some land on the moon :) I had "hope" in my "idea" and I've "reached the moon" - job done !

Dennis Hope

Heartbreaker

Written by Dean Valentino
Produced by James Freeman & Dean Valentino
Recorded* & Mixed by James Freeman at Big Sky Audio
Mastered by David Walker at Stepford Studios
Artwork by Sarah Ujmaia
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Dean Valentino - Guitar / Vocals
Daniel Paroissien - Bass
Davin Johnston - Drums
James Freeman - Guitar
James Seymour - Synth

*Night Fiction recorded by Gareth Leach, with John Philip on drums

Graceless

Love this stuff, certified lo-fi skronk, new-wave krautrock, between Suicide and Can. Done by two guys from South Philly. Released on Tom Lax's Siltbreeze Records.

Graceless

Slowcoaching