<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/soundcheck_MED.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings have announced the digital pre-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> - <strong>Even In The Future Nothing Works</strong>

<em>“The music of HC-B frees the imagination, leaving it to roam without the limits imposed by words, seducing with sound frames within which you can figure everything” </em>– <strong>Freak Out</strong>

<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> is now available in digital format from the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc). The album will see its official CD release at the end of March, 2009.

Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-HC-B_Album_Digital_Pre-Release.pdf">here</a>.

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