Dan Melchior

Dan Melchior on Slow Down Tiger seems to stray a little ways away from his usual partner in crime, the guitar, and dabbles with a foreboding dark ambience with ominous vocal samples (and field recordings) spliced in. To this day, it seems like the only track available for preview off of Slow Down Tiger is “Tongues,” and apparently that’s just a tidbit of what’s available. The synopsis for this record is touting two side-long tracks and I’m really curious as to what else Melchior is serving up on this thing. “Hospital Poem,” the B-side, is touted as “minimalist drone à la William Basinski, Harold Budd or Tony Conrad” but the synopsis goes on to say that Melchior twists the concept in to something dark – if it’s anything like “Tongues,” I’d take the writer’s word for it.