who is slow circus?

Slow Circus lives in the gap between familiar, well-worn folk songs we’ve heard our whole life – the humid attic of the collective American conscious – and improvisation normally reserved for America’s other great musical contribution — jazz. The music of Slow Circus defies easy categorization, blending elements of folk, jazz, and ambient instrumentation. “One writer called our music, ‘like stumbling through carnival grounds the next day at dawn’, which I liked. I don’t know exactly what it means, but it feels like how we sound.”

Following a string of acclaimed releases, including "Shimmer & Dream” from 2024 and a trio of albums - “These Stars Are Ours”, "This Magic Hour", and "Savage Idyll Days” — from 2023, Slow Circus’s latest offering, 2024’s “Anywhere But Here”, displays a new development in the band's sonic evolution. On “Anywhere But Here”, the piano takes the lead on every track. Backed by Slow Circus’s familiar brew of swirling organs, fragile guitars, and rusty brass, “Anywhere But Here” presents a suite of songs built on a theme of a desperate longing to be someplace else. Alternating between a dusty, thread-bare loneliness and a delicate sense of hope of escape, these eight new instrumentals provide a hazy glimpse of something common in the human experience: “I guess it’s like the feeling we all have at one point or another to get out of your hometown. When that stifling pressure builds, it can be overwhelming. It’s a feeling that’s universal and as old as the hills. For centuries, It has caused people to join the circus, sign up with the Merchant Marines, hit the open road, follow the Dead…an urge to embark on any kind of adventure to find a way out.”