<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/gravestone_MED.jpg" width="150" align="left" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced the release of the first track taken from American ambient guitarist <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/sleeping-me/">Sleeping Me</a>’s debut album <em>Cradlesongs</em>.

<em>Cradlesongs </em>is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, the acceptance of distance and disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. This is no more true than for the sublime melancholy that is ‘<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=38&amp;products_id=104">Legs Like Gravestone</a>’, the first track to be lifted from the album. Elegant, hopeful and infused with a sad beauty, ‘Legs Like Gravestone’ plays out like an elegy to fallen greatness as much as a passage back to the amniotic haze - an eternal return.

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Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.

‘Legs Like Gravestone’ is available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=38&amp;products_id=104">free download</a> from the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=38&amp;products_id=104">Hidden Shoal Store</a> until the release of <em>Cradlesongs </em>on 26th May 2009. Download a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Sleeping_Me_Single_Release.pdf">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Sleeping_Me/Legs_Like_Gravestone.mp3">Sleeping Me - Legs Like Gravestone</a>   <em>Sleeping Me - Legs Like Gravestone</em>