Slow Life is a collection of original compositions, and arrangements of selected covers.
Kevin Moehringer's Slow Life formed in 2012, originally as KM Ballad Trio, featuring bassist Aidan Carroll and drummer Nick Anderson. The project later expanded to include Douglas Bradford's guitar and had an amicable personnel change on bass, replacing Aidan with long-time collaborator Ari Folman-Cohen. Nick, Ari, and Kevin performed as "KM Ballad Trio" for a while, and recorded as a trio in the early months of 2014, bringing on Kevin's long time friend, sax player Morgan Price to co-produce the album with him. Almost a year later, with a half-finished album in the works, Kevin was featured in the blog Humans Of New York, and the publics interest in his story inspired him to finish the album. He did a modest fundraising campaign to fund another recording session, mixing, mastering, and a run of vinyl records for the album's release. In the Spring of 2015, Kevin added guitarist Douglas Bradford to the band and changed the name to "Kevin Moehringer's Slow Life." The personnel change happened very naturally, as Douglas had been a classmate of Nick's at NYU, and a long-time supporter and fan of the band.
After collaborating on a couple of live gigs, Kevin invited him to join the band. The quartet recorded several additional songs that make up the core of this album. They recorded with Jim Bertini at Galaxy Smith Studios in Brooklyn. Jim also mixed the album later that year. There is also an original song by Douglas Bradford "Wish In A Well." The other covers are "Quo" by Kevin's long-time friend, woodwind player and and musical collaborator Robby Marshall, and the song "Nicsee" by an obscure nordic band The Einmarsch from their album "Howls." The song "Going Home" is a traditional song from the American songbook, and was also arranged famously by Antonin Dvorak in his "New World Symphony." Band member biographies below: The album has some covers on it, most notably the song "Cat Rider" originally by the band Little Dragon.
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