<img class="alignleft  wp-image-12249" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Olive-Skinned-Cover-1400x1400-pxl-300x300.jpg" alt="Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing Swan Songs " width="216" height="216" />We've been itching to give you a first taste of <a title="REW&lt;&lt;" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/rew/">REW&lt;&lt;</a>'s forthcoming sophomore album <em>Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing Swan Songs </em>and we're relieved to say the time for itching is over! 'The Lights in the Sands of Katumpkale' is an evocative instrumental miniature – a window into Ryan E. Weber’s kaleidoscopic musical universe. Insistently plucked and bowed strings weave and coalesce around Weber’s effected vocals, creating a kind of surreal neo-classical pop. The accompanying music video, shot on Super 8 and transferred to VHS tape, deepens the song’s mystifying and avant-garde allure as the camera cuts between the body parts of an eerie, white-faced figure moving in black space.

‘The Lights in the Sands of Katumpkale’ is available now as a <a title="Bandcamp" href="https://rew-music.bandcamp.com/track/the-lights-in-the-sands-of-katumpkale-2" target="_blank">free download</a> and <a title="SoundCloud" href="https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/rew-the-lights-in-the-sands-of-katumpkale" target="_blank">stream</a>. Check out the video on <a title="YouTube" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_Q4kEt5mI" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and <a title="Vimeo" href="https://vimeo.com/124183689" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>. <em>Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing Swan Songs </em>will be released through Hidden Shoal on 16th July 2015. Find out more about REW&lt;&lt; <a title="REW&lt;&lt;" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/rew/">here</a>.

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