<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/jumpel.jpg" alt="" width="101" height="136" align="left" /><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> is excited to announce the release of the third album <em><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=159">Europa</a> </em>by German minimal electronica maestro <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/jumpel/">Jumpel</a>. Inspired by Jo Dürbeck’s travels around Europe, <span style="font-style: italic;">Europa </span>transforms   Dürbeck’s personal memories of 11 different European locations into a   gorgeous suite of 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.

The album includes the stunning freely downloadable single '<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=157">Edinburgh</a>'  featuring the exquisite guest vocals of Chloë March married to Jumpel's  inimitable melancholic ambient pop. ‘Edinburgh’ is an exercise in  elegance and restraint, filling out the shadows and backstreets with  ennui.

<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> </em>

<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><em> </em>

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<em>Europa </em>is available now on CD and in digital formats through Hidden Shoal Recordings, distributed via <a href="http://n5mailorder.com/release/1078/jumpel-europa" target="_blank">n5Mailorder</a>. Head to the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=159">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all availability details and read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Jumpel-Europa.pdf">here</a>. Also download the albums first single '<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=157">Edinburgh</a>' and watch its accompanying music video at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSBhIDaq3sw">Youtube</a> or <a href="http://vimeo.com/16203866">Vimeo</a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Jumpel/europa/05_Rom.mp3">Jumpel - Rom</a> <em>Jumpel - Rom</em>