AQUARELLE

AGENT:  MATTHEW

AVAILABILITY: SEE AVAILS / UPCOMING SHOWS

TOOLS: MAKE AN OFFER / PROMO MATERIALS

BAND SITES:  MYSPACE PAGE

LABEL: REST AND NOISE RECORDS (US)

FREE MP3: Everything Changes Into Itself

HOMETOWN: St. Paul, MN

DISCOGRAPHY:

2009 - SLOW CIRCLES CD

BIO:

There is much to be heard by Aquarelle (the aural moniker of Ryan Potts) on his first release, Slow Circles. Tempered with static and distortion, the five extended tracks hold an illusion of stasis sourced from dozens of layers of acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments. Filtered loops overlap and repeat, erecting a pattern that links pure minimalism to an oblique and layered pop approach that unfurls with acoustic guitar, bells, and bits of percussion.

Aquarelle's influences are teeming – and include various forms of photography, films by Terrence Malick, and the presence of family – but perhaps nothing inspires more than the ardor for sound itself, from hissing electronic abstraction to four-part vocal harmonies. Slow Circles is his first widely available album after a handful of limited run CDR releases.

REVIEWS:

Young Minnesota drone artist Ryan Potts, recording as Aquarelle, gives you full permission to be astonished.

-Pitchfork

Throughout this accomplished recording, Potts shows himself to be an artful and sensitive manipulator of his materials, and his skill at effecting the transformations within the pieces helps make Slow Circles stand out from its genre brethren.

-Textura

While fairly minimal in format, Pott's compositions are made from complex layers of acoustic and electric guitars, processed and shaped into impressionist pastoral pieces. This creates an interesting contrast all throughout Slow Circles and gives it a very particular tone, away from more common electro-acoustic works.  Potts pays great attention to the smallest details, carefully placing the tiniest speck of sound into the mix to give a particular point  density that was not there a moment before, yet he never loses sight of the bigger picture, keeping his overall sequences totally pure.

-The Milk Factory

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