Doors at 7:00pm
Front Room
$10 Advance/$15 Day of Show
All ages show. Check entry requirements at
http://theslowdown.com/All-Ages
About V.V. Volume I
There’s something distinctively collaborative about making a vinyl compilation album in 2025. Vinyl record listening is a format that demands communal engagement. There are no earbuds, bluetooth, portabilitily or isolation in the vinyl experience. From the moment the needle drops, waves of vibration spill out from the stylus into the air. Particular amplifiers, snaking audio cables, and dedicated Hi-Fi equipment are required to activate the listening experience. It’s a ritual that demands attention, defined by the coordination and collaborative efforts of so many links in a chain.
This compilation encapsulates this mode of collaboration. It starts with the natural community of the individuals sharing physical space on a permanent record. Each recording includes past bandmates, tourmates, local repair technicians, studio engineers, and longtime friends. Putting together music for vinyl requires a high level of trust. There are many steps in the preparation and much expense. Releasing vinyl is a commitment to fight together through all the obstacles, and create, not just a “sound file,” but a full listening experience. In a moment when it is increasingly easy, and nearly free, to post songs online or generate a “playlist”, Vinyl Vagabonds embrace the care, the thoughtfulness, and the mystique of sharing physical and aural space in a musical collection.
We appreciate your participation in this ritual. We hope you hear the care embedded in these tracks. These songs have traveled long and far, passing through the ether of ideas, materialized through practice spaces, studios, and manufacturing plants, to finally arrive on your turntable.
Stephen J. Bartolomei 5-FEB-2025
The June 6 release show will feature performances from:
Lodgings - swirling colorful inertia, relentless, momentous, never lets you down
Custom Catacombs - grooves deep within wrecking crew tunnels to discover refuge accordingly
Neva Dinova - velvet tones and airy turnarounds take one to the cliffs
Ash Rayne Boe - gently discovered distortion, atmosphere, to meet at controlled chaos junction
Stephen Bartolomei - angry yet elegant, minor nudged folk within a timeless voice for the unspoken
The Sun-Less Trio - moody cloud float arrows dart into a jagged edge to find descending end
More info and music at the slowdown.com.
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