Michael Scott Dawson - Guitar, Solo (We Are Busy Bodies)
- The Slow Music Movement
- Apr 8
- 2 min read
*** This post first appeared in TSMM's April 6th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first. ***
This week’s selection is also something of a trawl through TSMM’s pet artists. It’s always an exciting moment when a favourite act releases a new album, although there is also a moment of trepidation just before hitting play where I pray that it’s as good as previous releases, hopefully closely followed by elation when they deliver the goods yet again, although there have been plenty of tears along the way too.
Michael Scott Dawson is an artist who has yet to let me down in the five years I’ve been acquainted with his music, and he’s one of my favourite exponents of the ambient Americana condition. This new LP is a physically limited cassette and LP release in support of his current Japanese tour, and if that is your country of residence then check his tour dates and tell me what it was like. Oh yeah pick me up a signed vinyl copy from the merch table too.
After the collaborative delights of last year’s The Tinnitus Chorus - something of a TSMM wet dream, this is a strictly one man affair. If you’re a fan of his previous work then you’ll immediately feel at home in the consummately crafted soundscapes that, rather like his Canadian home seem to go on forever, augmented by symbiotic field recordings that bring some of that fresh air and fauna into your listening space and which act as the perfect backdrop for his minimal guitar meditations that I always imagine are recorded on a hill top looking down on a forested valley without a road or electricity pylon in sight. Keep ‘em coming Michael and don’t worry about that concept album.
Playlist Companion
Although this LP isn't available to stream you can find more roots delights in the
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