Welsh quartet Slowly Rolling Camera mixes jazz with downtempo and electronic soul. They will return to Prague after eleven years and on 12th March they will perform at Spectaculare_12. At Palác Akropolis, the band will present material from their latest album Silver Shadow, which was released in the summer of 2024 and takes the band further into the realms of epic cinematic emotions. „This album reflects our fascination with the cinematic approach, not only in sound but also in the way we construct our music,“ the band says. Directly inspired by the interplay of film music and visuals, the individual songs here are like movie scenes that convey powerful moods. And of course, the band's name, Slowly Rolling Camera, couldn't be more fitting to them. Slowly Rolling Camera was founded in 2013 by pianist Dave Stapleton, who had already was one of the leading lights of British jazz. Everything changed when a friend played him an album Motion by The Cinematic Orchestra and Stapleton and yearned to take his music to places he'd never been before. He teamed up with percussionist Elliot Bennett, singer Dionne Bennett and producer Deri Roberts, and they began working on the mesmerizing yet freewheeling fusion that features downtempo, post-rock atmospherics and digital funk. Eponymous debut was produced by Andy Allan, who has a hand in the famous Massive Attack and Portishead albums and the legacy of the Bristol scene of the 90s met with the influences of 4 Hero, Bonobo and James Blake.
Dionne Bennett left the band after 2016's All Things and Slowly Rolling Camera continued as an instrumental trio. On the new record, however, they are joined by a team of guest collaborators who make the music more vibrant than ever. We can see for ourselves on 12th March at Palác Akropolis, where Slowly Rolling Camera will play as part of Spectaculare_12.
