Latvian filmmaker <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1393637">Ieva Balode</a>, recentlyby a stunning video by this glorious seven-minute song sees the gradual accretion of reverberant guitar tones, emerging from the silence as sparse reflections across the stereo field. Slow searching melodies overlap and accumulate before a descending bass figure carries the song home to its elegiac conclusion. The song, like all Slow Dancing Society releases, resonates with a rich emotional core – and the choking realisation of our own transience.

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Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the first track and accompanying music video taken from the eagerly awaited fourth album by US ambient artist <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/slow-dancing-society/">Slow Dancing Society</a>. Both single and video are now available for <a href="http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/">free download</a>.

Following on from the ebullient warmth of the critically acclaimed <a title="Slow Dancing Society" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/"><em>Priest Lake Circa ’88</em></a>, ‘…and to the dust we shall return’ is the perfect introduction to Drew Sullivan’s latest ambient epic, <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em>.

<em>“a complexity of sound that allows it to stand out from traditionally ambient music… It is easy to get dissolved in this album, to let yourself fall into meditation as the music plays… Textures and timbre are executed with great precision… Even the simplest of songs allow complimentary textures to be layered upon each other to create a robust yet spacious sound… an aural delight for the listener.”</em> <strong>– The Silent Ballet on Priest Lake Circa ’88</strong>

‘…and to the dust we shall return’ is now available through the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=13&amp;products_id=146">Hidden Shoal Recordings Store</a>. The single and music video will be available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=13&amp;products_id=146">free download</a> until the new Slow Dancing Society album <em>Under The Sodium Lights</em> is released on 25 August 2010. Stream the music video at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRRxPZf5yO4" target="_blank">Youtube</a> and <a href="http://vimeo.com/12739748" target="_blank">Vimeo</a> and read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Slow_Dancing_Society-and_to_the_dust_we_shall_remain.pdf">here</a>.