<img class="alignleft" alt="Jumpel - Bloc4" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Bloc4_MED.jpg" width="150" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of <a href="http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2"><em>Bloc4</em></a>, the new album by German minimal ambient-electronica maestro Jumpel. <em>Bloc4</em> is available now in limited edition CD and digital formats from the <a href="http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Singles ‘Blue Ceiling’ and ‘Flight’ are also available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/">free download</a> from the Hidden Shoal Store.

<em>Bloc4</em> centres around the elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces. The songs were written throughout 2012, with ideas collated, reviewed, developed and remixed. Following the wonderful results of his collaboration with <a href="http://www.chloemarch.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chloë March</a> on <em>Europa</em> single ‘Edinburgh’, Joe Dürbeck presented the ideas for <em>Bloc4</em> to March and invited her to select tracks and develop vocal ideas. The March-fronted tracks, including first single ‘Blue Ceiling’ and new single ‘Flight’, are especially stunning – and offer a perfect counterbalance to the more melancholic, spacious instrumental pieces. <em>Bloc4</em> is the fourth Jumpel album to be released through Hidden Shoal.

<em>“the concept driving this new release is an inspired one that affords a marvelous opportunity for dramatic sound exploration.. plays less like the experience of a first-time sightseer excited by the prospect of seeing the usual tourist sights and more like a long-time visitor who regards the journey as a time for reflection and melancholic rumination.”</em> –<strong> Textura on <em>Europa</em></strong>

<em>“Hugely ambient, gentle and suggestive in part, with quiet aspects that lament around each city stop, Europa is a portrait of minimalistic excellence and a passion for discovery, which flourishes with every experimental step across the continent.”</em> – <strong>Igloo on <em>Europa</em></strong>

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