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Welcome to the Big Low website!
We are Dan Tuffy (songs, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo bass, vocals) Marc Constandse (bandoneon, percussion incl. darabuka, morrocan castinettes, gembir, cajon, chains and basically anything that rattles and makes a cool noise) & Michiel Hollanders (resonator guitar, velophone, singing saw and assorted textures from wherever he can get them). Basically what we are about (apart from - yawn - trying to put good music into the world) is feeling. Feeling is all. Then there are the stories. Characters, places, recollections and the strange powers of the natural world. Dreams and schemes. History. Fantasy. Wolves running accross a frozen lake. Spirits laughing from the undergrowth. We have inherited a catalogue of tales, emotions, and reflections on life and the human spirit from the valley where I grew up. To enhance the telling and capture the right atmosphere we might elect to record our music using sounds generated from unexpected and ghostly sources. A standard bass, drums, guitar, violin, keyboard-whatever line-up could never satisfied any one of us as musicians. Feeling is all. We look for sounds that can tell a story and we often find the right "instrument" for the job at hand lying on the floor of the shed.

We also run the Smoked Recordings label, a label for "Amplified Acoustic Music" and the Smoked Sounds studio. If you like what you hear check the label catalogue out because you will probably like that as well: www.smokedrecordings.com