<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/jumpel.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="240" align="left" />Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of ‘Edinburgh’ by German ambient pop maestro <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/jumpel/">Jumpel</a>, the first single to be taken from his forthcoming third album <em>Europa</em>.

With ‘Edinburgh’, Jo Dürbeck introduces a bewitching new ingredient to the Jumpel sound – the luscious vocals of <a href="http://www.chloemarch.co.uk/">Chloë March</a>.   Beautifully evoking the rain-soaked streets of the Scottish capital,   refracted through a personal lens, ‘Edinburgh’ is an exercise in   elegance and restraint, filling out the shadows and backstreets with   ennui. Melancholic piano chords carry the track forward while electronic   texture’s weave amid March’s luminous lyrical play. A departure – yet   also an arrival.

‘Edinburgh’ is taken from the forthcoming Jumpel album <em>Europa</em> (out November 25th). Inspired by Jo Dürbeck’s travels around Europe, the   album transforms Dürbeck’s personal memories of 11 different European   locations into minimal ambient electronica. The album acts as a kind of   abstracted sonic diary, painting the intangibilities and romanticism  of  memory and travel using sparse yet resonant sound. A simple idea –  and  one that has produced Jumpel’s most restrained and unified effort  to  date.

<em>“ambient-dub set-pieces of understated yet still resplendent colour…   an album of many moods, with dub, dub-techno, ambient, electro-pop, and   funk all making appearances…  A spirit of languor and ease pervades  the  album as a whole, rendering it a scenic yet still relaxing  travelogue.” </em><strong>– Textura on sophomore album <em>Deuxieme Bureau</em></strong>

<em>“A beautiful, minimal electronic record for the heads… enthusiasts of   minimal electronic music will find much to enjoy with Jumpel’s new album   and its wide sound palate” </em><strong>– Sonic Frontiers on debut album <em>Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach</em></strong>

The ‘Edinburgh’ single is available for<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=157"> free download from the Hidden Shoal Store</a> and the music video can be streamed and embedded via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSBhIDaq3sw">Youtube</a> or <a href="http://vimeo.com/16203866">Vimeo</a>. Read a full press release <a href="../press/">here</a> and head to the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to check out Jumpel's previous releases.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Jumpel/europa/Edinburgh.mp3">Jumpel - Edinburgh</a> <em>Jumpel - Edinburgh</em>