<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Hearing-Things-Front-Cover-1000px.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-12629 " src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Hearing-Things-Front-Cover-1000px-300x300.jpg" alt="Erik Nilsson - Hearing Things" width="225" height="225" /></a>We know you've been loving <a title="Erik Nilsson" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/">Erik Nilsson</a>'s sumptuous new track '<a title="On and Onward" href="http://eriknilsson.bandcamp.com/track/on-and-onward" target="_blank">On and Onward</a>' and waiting for his second album to drop (we have cameras in your house). Well quit your waiting and start your listen as the beautiful sophomore release from Nilsson, <a title="Hearing Things" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/" target="_blank"><em>Hearing Things</em></a>, has just landed. Drawing on folk, classical and electronica, Erik Nilsson blends acoustic instruments with field recordings and computer-generated sounds, crafting music akin to early Four Tet, Tortoise at their most minimal, and fellow Scandinavian soundscapers The Gentleman Losers. His Hidden Shoal debut <em>Hearing Things</em> advances the compositional strategy Nilsson first explored on his acclaimed debut <em>Recollage</em>: simple rhythmic and melodic elements are manipulated and recontextualised into richly textured, emotive pieces.

Erik’s previous work includes the album <i>Recollage</i>, released by <a title="Luxus Arctica" href="https://luxusarctica.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Luxus-Artica Records</a>, and the score for <i>Ahmed – Almost 13</i>, a Norwegian documentary screened at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam. His music can be heard in <i>Project Power</i>, which chronicles civic resistance to privatisation in New Brunswick, Canada, and in <i>Are You Still There?</i>, finalist in the 2011 edition of the short film competition The 24 Hour Film Race. Erik is a regular contributor to the Disquiet Junto Project, an online collective exploring the creative potential of constraints. He is also singer and guitarist of folk-rock trio Otinget, whose debut album will be released in 2015.

Check out the opening track 'Ex Nihilo' below or via <a title="SoundCloud" href="https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/erik-nilsson-ex-nihilo" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a> and stream and purchase the album <a title="Hearing Things" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/">here</a>.
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