Scot Snow
Electronica / Ambient / Other Melbourne, Australia |
Billboard
Multi-instrumentalist Scot Snow first picked up the guitar at age nine. Twenty minutes later he put it down and didn't touch it again for nearly eight years. It wasn't until he was in his twenties, after seeing Leo Kottke live, that he got serious about the instrument.
Inbetween these two events was his discovery of the music of Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream which led to a consequent obsession with electronic music and synthesizers. Unable to afford the much lusted after Yamaha DX7, Scot instead settled for one of Yamaha's cheaper electronic keyboards.
Completely self-taught, he now uses a combination of his Ovation acoustic guitar and software synths to create epic yet intimate soundscapes which skip on the border between acoustic and electronic music.
Determinedly independent, Scot retains no agent or manager and rejects the notion that music needs a corporate media middleman in order to reach an audience.
A gigging machine, Scot has played dozens of shows in just the last few years and is as happy playing a community hall as he is a concert hall, believing the performance is the key rather than the venue.
His solo acoustic 2005 CD, Drive It Home, has sold out three print runs and in December 2007 he released the EP Solis. As of early 2008 he is at work on music for several film and TV projects, mostly for the European market and the next full length CD release.
"... one of those surprising performers whose music, if you let it, can change your life, and if he is not careful could inspire a whole new guitar movement." - The Folk, Jazz & Blues Bulletin (Rebekah Armstrong).
"The closest thing we have to a guitar monk ... his relationship to the instrument is inspiring." - Paly Palladino, percussionist/founder, Tribal Rhythm.
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Strange Karma EP is out! (Part proceeds to charity!) 2 days ago
Hi Folks
My new EP, Strange Karma, is out now! It's electronic heavy and reflects many of my influences from Brian Eno to Tangerine Dream to Vangelis to Jean Michel Jarre. I hope you get a kick out of it!
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Hello to Melbourne! Very nice sounds!!!
posted Feb 19
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany! Feel free to download my music!
posted Jul 31
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