<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/soundcheck_MED.jpg" width="150" align="left" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings have announced the official CD release of the album <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=36&amp;products_id=102"><em>Soundcheck For A Missing Movie</em></a> by Italian sonic cinematographers <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/hc-b/">HC-B</a>. In each of its eight majestic songs, Soundcheck For A Missing Movie follows HC-B’s finely trained lens across a breathtaking instrumental rock landscape, rich with detail and swimming with emotive currents. In triumphant single ‘Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square’, free-jazz horns squabble and blare like a swarm of bees before the main theme shines through like an exultant fanfare, supported by a thundering bassline. The gorgeous ‘Slow Compensation’ winds sinuous synth lines, violin and a longing male and female vocal through the swaying drums and guitars, mustering a quietly anthemic yet intimate epic. And closer ‘Missing Movie’ brings the house down with a storm of ferocious guitars.

<em>“this is instrumental post-rock with attention-grabbing orchestral construction... HC-B really are something special”</em> - <a href="http://eveninthefuture.blogspot.com/2009/02/hc-b-group-soundtrack-for-missing-movie.html" target="_blank"><strong>Even In The Future Nothing Works</strong></a>

<em>“</em>HC-B cram as much as possible into <em>Soundcheck</em>’s 50-minute running time and it actually comes as a disappointment when it ends. There’s simply far too much going on in this record that to simply label these Italians as a mere post-rock band would be doing them a great disservice.<em>” </em>– <a href="http://www.sicmagazine.net/articles/187/h-c-b-soundcheck-for-a-missing-movie" target="_blank">[sic]</a>

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=36&amp;products_id=102"><img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/hc-b.jpg" width="170" align="right" height="114" /><em>Soundcheck For A Missing Movie</em></a> is now available on CD through Hidden Shoal's US distributor <a href="http://www.n5md.com/mailorder/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&amp;products_id=621">n5Mailorder</a> and in digital format from the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/">Hidden Shoal Store</a> as well as all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc).

Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-HC-B_Official_CD_Release.pdf">here</a> and stay tuned for European tour dates.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/HC-B/A_dusty_book_a_city_of_lights.mp3">HC-B - A Dusty Book, A City of Lights</a>  <em>HC-B - A Dusty Book, A City of Lights
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