mwvm

Music:

Member Since: 10/27/2005
Band Website: mwvm.co.uk
Band Members: michael walton-everything
Influences: some music has influenced me, some i just like listening to godspeed you black emperor, polmo polpo, mogwai, aarktica, stars of the lid, pan american, fly pan am, the dead texan, keith fullerton whitman, do make say think, tape, rothko, the hafler trio, jaga jazzist, pink floyd, boards of canada, labradford, sigur ros, air, windy and carl, fennesz, aphex twin, fridge, the books, four tet, explosions in the sky, aix em klemm, autechre, re:, radiohead, syd barrett, tortoise, spiritualized, oren ambarchi, soft machine, neu!, can, greg davis, dntel, loscil, susumu yokota, kraftwerk, gas, massive attack, rameses iii, alan sparhawk, astral social club,sunn O))), andrew chalk, ennio morricone, spacemen 3, fuxa, physics, j spaceman, marsen jules, low, murcof, daft punk, death in vegas, jan jelinek, chris atlas, david bowie, pan sonic, d_rradio, plaid, biosphere, deathprod, silver mt zion, rafael toral, sickoakes, harold budd, caribou, alog, stereolab, cypress hill, jim o'rourke, rosy parlane, jackie o'motherfucker, tim hecker, number none, robert fripp, mitchell akiyama, chris herbert, machinefabriek, growing, casino versus japan, cluster, jazzfinger, brian mcbride, belong, physics, william basinski, opiate, wolf eyes, stephan mathieu, pita, brian eno, bibio, beck, david bowie, lee ranaldo, this is a process of a still life, sebastien roux, aidan baker, chris herbert, hazard, BJ Nielsen, philip jeck, boris, kk null, trans am, fm3, set fire to flames, gregg kowalsky, low, steve reich, ryoji ikeda, earth, tod dockstader, porn sword tobacco, harmonia, i'm not a gun, fursaxa, fourcolor, my bloody valentine, magnog, roy montgomery, eluvium, seaworthy, library tapes ...
Sounds Like:

"it's a thing of beauty for sure....Walton's work is ever static: as its various strata shift in and out of phase, new patterns and new harmonic information is magically conjured." THE WIRE

"Timeless melodies wash across degraded industrial ambiance, pointing towards influences such as Labradford's seminal "Prazision" LP and Wolfgang Voigt's grand, lulling passages under his GAS moniker... mwvm has created a body of work that is beautiful, strange and haunting 8.5/10" - angryape

"mwvm will appeal to fans of Stars of the Lid and Eluvium...recommended 7.5/10" - maelstrom

"songs share common traits with the calmest & dreamiest parts of post rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor or The Silver Mt. Zion. Bands like Stars of the Lid, If Thousands, and Eluvium...shares common characteristics with ambient, post rock, and even some noisier moments, but it all gels together nicely for one enjoyable experience I suggest you check out...8/10" - Lunar Hypnosis

"This album stands out as a panacea to the remaining dependence on rock that even the far left of post-rock still retains...this is mwvm inspiring the rest of the crowd" - brainwashed

"a lovely effort all around....from the early experiments of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno...3.5/5" - allmusic.com

"This record can serve as the soundtrack for a hypnotic trance...." - eufonia

"“Rotations” is a delightful album that reminds us directly of the music of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai and Fear Falls Burning....beautifully spun out guitar drones..." - Gothtronic

"I’ve not heard a better soundtrack all year. Highly recommended to snorecore enthusiasts, aerobic cybernauts and fans of Eno’s ambient period..." - Terrascope

"mwvm = Stars of the Lid + Keith Fullerton Whitman....Rotations is an undeniably enjoyable listen," - slugmag

"When I played this CD I kept thinking: Eno, Fripp, Fear Falls Burning, Hypnos, Stars Of The Lid.... it's nice, it's entertaining, it's atmospheric, it's beautiful....simply enjoy the beauty of it.... 'Rotations' is certainly a beautiful album" - Vitalweeky.net

"Rotations features the kind of classy, odd ambient stuff that has made the Silber label a household name....slow, methodical, and dreamy....Wonderful sounding rich stuff... Recommended." - babysue

"songs share common traits with the calmest & dreamiest parts of post rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor or The Silver Mt. Zion. Bands like Stars of the Lid, If Thousands, and Eluvium...shares common characteristics with ambient, post rock, and even some noisier moments, but it all gels together nicely for one enjoyable experience I suggest you check out...8/10" - Lunar Hypnosis

"This album cannot be ignored....ou don't float with Rotations, you drown in it, twisting and writhing. The immediacy of each melodic and harmonic theme enveloping the listener within each track and the album as a whole" - daeitmasel