David Slowing -"Homes"

David Slowing’s “Homes” from the album Music for Abandoned Offices out on our friends on (Aural Canyon) is a meditation on the crisis and opportunity of late-stage capitalism. Bringing together shimmering ambient pads, lilting slide guitar and and a keen sense of melody, “Homes” bleeds with a sense of deepening nostalgia for a future that never was. From the press release -

“In my late 20’s, during one of the darkest times of my life, I squatted inside an abandoned office building in the middle of nowhere in Florida for a year and a half. Ultimately faced with leaving, losing my mind,  or worse, I packed up what little I had and left for NYC. 

8 years later, I find myself living out of a different kind of strange office building, opposite in pretty much every way. This new  office building is located wherever I want, thanks to covid and the newfound acceptance of remote work. It is also life-affirming,  accompanied by my family. 

Music for Abandoned Offices is a reflection on these experiences. I composed it in different locations while working remotely (LA, Austin, Hudson Valley) as a series of improvised ambient meditations. 

It is a soundtrack for the thousands of empty square feet of commercial real estate that now lies dormant, and the various locations — coffee shops, bedrooms, porches — in which people now work.”