<img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10435" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Markus-Mehr-2014-2-150x150.jpg" alt="Markus Mehr" width="150" height="150" />We're excited to announce that<a title="Markus Mehr" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/"> Markus Mehr</a>'s brilliant new album <em>Binary Rooms</em> is now officially available. The album is available in all digital formats and as a limited edition CD. Head <a title="Binary Rooms" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/">here</a> for stream and purchase info.

Mehr’s work has seen a subtle shift in scale across his five studio albums. From the widescreen cosmic vistas of <em>Lava</em> to some of the more intimate moments of his 42-minute single-track opus <em>Off</em>, Mehr has now come to examine the most challenging space yet – that of our everyday lives and the spatial narratives that surround us. Mehr’s music has always possessed a keen sense of and negotiation with scale, and on <em>Binary Rooms</em> he challenges notions of personal space, juxtaposing the human against the industrial, the gentle and intimate against the jolting and harsh. Mehr acts as a fragment hunter, meshing machine-like tones with the discarded elements of humanity; narrative with anti-narrative. On <em>Binary Rooms</em> he manages to create a spatial remix – a striking re-design of aural reality filled with a living, digital biology.

Stream the album track, 'Buoy', below and be sure to check out the stunning <a title="Vimeo" href="https://vimeo.com/105644655" target="_blank">music video</a> by experimental filmmaker and Markus Mehr collaborator <a href="https://vimeo.com/sixtsense/videos">Stefanie Sixt</a> for the track ‘Gymnasium/Swarms'.
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