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<h1>Glassacre</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Glassacre_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8880" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Glassacre_1-300x199.jpg" alt="Glassacre" width="300" height="199" /></a><em>“Glassacre is all shimmer and surge… the power of this music will creep up on you gradually, and before you know it the damn thing is on repeat play”</em> – <strong>Luna Kafe</strong></p>
<p>Glassacre is a delayed conversation between its members, a kind of handing over and giving in of the constituent elements in the hope that something larger will form. The collective will grow and shrink and the music will morph and paint with other colours. Rather than a band, this is an exercise in distillation and the opportunity to be unrestrained in play.</p>
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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>We Don't Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>
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<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long">We Don't Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe></p>
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<p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p>
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<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>
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<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe></p>
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<p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow.</p>
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<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>
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<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe></p>
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<p><span style="font-style: italic;">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow. The album’s scope is immediately apparent on breathtaking opener ‘The Slow Beginnings of a ‘A Fragile Acceptance’, where faint piano notes are overwhelmed by an aching surge of cellos, and the timeless, lingering chord progression of ‘The Siren, Hopelessly Lost’. Single ‘Endlessly’ weaves traces of nature with unearthly, oscillating tones before giving way to a strident piano theme. On ‘Doubt’, Jan Van Den Broek delivers the words of Paul Morley, cradled against a bed of melancholic piano, violin and cello, leaving an indelible emotional mark. ‘A Light From The Heavens’ almost feels like a natural conclusion to the album, with its sense of reflective yearning, but it is followed by the devastating metaphysical breakdown of ‘On Arrival at the Strange Museum’, a cavernous piece that calls out like some giant magnetic spirit.[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Bio"]<br />
<h3>Biography</h3>
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<p><strong>The Boys</strong><br /> Glassacre are Chris Mason and Cam Merton. Chris and Cam have been writing and making music for the last 10 years, both individually, in other bands, and together.</p>
<p>Cam has played and recorded in several Australian outfits over the last 15 years, including CSR (a 15-year-old, still-current recording project with Perth musician Rick Mason), Lake Disappointment and Silo. He’s an established and practicing artist with over 10 years of national and international exhibition and performance behind him, and he also manages the Australian digital music label Hidden Shoal Recordings.</p>
<p>Besides playing and recording with the Chris Mason Implosion (their album <em>Up Down Up</em> is a pop gem), Chris also heads up the studio-based project My Majestic Star, whose wonderful cinematic post-rock yearnings have already gained international attention and sparkling reviews.</p>
<p><strong>Releases</strong><br /> The band’s first EP, <em>Slow Attack</em>, has received glowing reviews and regular airplay on Australian radio, as well as featuring on a number of international radio and Internet radio stations. Glassacre’s music plays at the edges of electronica and pop while never really committing to either.</p>
<p>Perhaps the best introduction to the band comes in the form of their first single, ‘Swimming In Greece’. The song acts not as a benchmark of the Glassacre sound, but more as an indicator of their approach and mashing of sensibilities. Night-time beats roll around layers of turning guitars; warm and warning electronic tones call from behind; an almost spoken sing-song vocal intones gently but insistently. Two songs later and you’re lifted away by the gorgeous and breezy astral pop of ‘Tension Agreement’. The upcoming Glassacre album will bear even greater evidence to these wonderful musical schisms.</p>
<p>Glassacre are currently putting the finishing touches to their eagerly anticipated debut album, due out in the second half of 2007 through Hidden Shoal Recordings. Glassacre are also currently working with Australian experimental film-maker Sam Landels on the video accompaniment to their first single from the new album, ‘September 16th’.</p>
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<h3>News</h3>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>Press Releases</h3>
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<p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Glassacre_Single.pdf" target="_blank">September 16th Single Release</a></p>
<p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release_8th_June.pdf">Label sampler album release, Enargeia “UFO: Stryker Force” release and Glassacre “Slow Attack” Release</a></p>
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<h3>Licensing</h3>
<p>Glassacre's music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>
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