<img class="alignleft  wp-image-9160" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Drew_Sullivan_1-225x300.jpg" alt="Slow Dancing Society" width="140" height="187" />What can one say about the music of Drew Sullivan, aka <a title="Slow Dancing Society" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/">Slow Dancing Society</a>, that has not already been written about across his extensive discography. Slow Dancing Society has become somewhat of an institution in the ambient scene and each successive release has seen Sullivan's music hold true to it's core yet gracefully evolve. This is not by the book ambient or an exercise in structuralism, but rather music that is birthed through emotion and feeling, then given form. Each song is a soundtrack to a moment, a sonic equivalent to the romantic nature of photography. His latest EP, <a title="The Dusk Recital" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/"><em>The Dusk Recital</em></a>, is a delicious little side-step for the Slow Dancing Society project and sees Sullivan employ more beats and more overt 90's dream-pop references.

So without further rambling, we ask Drew to reach into the bag and pull out <a title="Three Questions" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/features/3-questions/">three questions</a>…
<h5>What kind of activity is your music made for?</h5>
I listen to my music when I move my body on the run. Music cues forward, the bass operates my legs, the melody spangles my head, to find that perfect place in mind and body when you can run for ever, enjoying the mellow grooves that let you chill on the hoof, to mediate on each footfall, each breath, finding pure pleasure in simple human motion.
<h5>Why make music?</h5>
All that chaotic mind banter that runs around my head all day, needs to come out somehow. It's a biological need to express the visceral nature of humanness or my complete misunderstanding of why I'm here. Music making has some deeper purpose to explore the in-between, the Liminal places where logic and reason are no longer useful. It's like breathing, I have to keep doing it otherwise...this life thang isn't quite as fulfilling. Maybe some of that Liminalality will rub off.
<h5>What’s one of your favourite albums that’s unlikely to be featured on anyone else’s list of favourite albums, and why do you love it?</h5>
<em> Connected</em> by the Stereo MCs from 1992. I saw them live when they toured this album. I danced for two hours. It was 1992, a blend of live instruments, vocals, DJ and technology. It was a funky, blistering dance workout. It wasn't faceless dance music and certainly wasn't "foot-on-the monitor-in-spandex" rock ego. It was about the groove and that's all I wanted!