[et_pb_section fullwidth="off" specialty="on" background_color="#050505" inner_shadow="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="css"][et_pb_column type="3_4" specialty_columns="3"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left"]<h1>Jumpel</h1><p><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jumpel2013.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8948" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Jumpel-Profile-Pic-300x245.jpg" alt="Jumpel" width="300" height="245" /></a><em>“Qualitatively spacious, electronically dense, cinematically enthralling and calmly floating..."</em> –<strong> Igloo Magazine<br /> </strong></p><p>It all begins late at night with a moment of inspiration: a piano pattern, an underground announcement, a phrase from a film score. From there, alone in his studio, Jumpel weaves his spacious, immersive music. Combining organic and electronic elements, Jumpel’s luscious albums are characterised by elegance, restraint, and the arresting juxtaposition of alien and familiar sounds.</p><p><strong><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/jumpel.de" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png" alt="Facebook" width="26" height="20" /></a> <a title="Website" href="http://www.jumpel.de/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png" alt="Website" width="26" height="20" /></a> </strong>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#ffffff" show_divider="off" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label="Artist Tabs"][et_pb_tab title="Discography"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Bloc4</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 640px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=200383619/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/bloc4-2">Bloc4 by Jumpel</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>Bloc4</em> centres around the elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces. The songs were written throughout 2012, with ideas collated, reviewed, developed and remixed. Following the wonderful results of his collaboration with Chloë March on <em>Europa</em> single ‘Edinburgh’, Joe Dürbeck presented the ideas for <em>Bloc4</em> to March and invited her to select tracks and develop vocal ideas. The March-fronted tracks, including first single ‘Blue Ceiling’ and new single ‘Flight’, are especially stunning – and offer a perfect counterbalance to the more melancholic, spacious instrumental pieces.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Europa</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 505px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3820650970/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/europa">Europa by Jumpel</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Inspired by Jo Dürbeck’s travels around Europe, <em>Europa</em> 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.</p><p>Like many journeys, <em>Europa</em> begins with speculation and tentative steps. In ‘Arles’ and ‘Bern’, the delicate pattering of subtle rhythms is counterbalanced with delicate melodic figures, like light reflecting off water. In ‘Stockholm’, disembodied voices and more forceful rhythms seep into the mix as the album heads towards a beatific plateau of sorts with its central trio of ‘Rom’, ‘Madrid’ and single ‘Edinburgh’. 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 Chloë March’s luminous lyrical play. A departure – yet also an arrival.</p><p>'Wien' simply aches with melancholic introspection, tracing one of travel’s most wonderfully paradoxical sensations – the feeling of looking back while moving forward. 'Mailand' continues the introspective thread, gliding gracefully into the ambient dub of 'Lissabon', followed by the wonderfully understated electronica and found sound of closer 'Koeln'. Rather than a final point on the journey, 'Koeln' offers a rest point and an understanding that there is always another destination in queue.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Deuxième Bureau</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 540px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2007888569/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/deuxi-me-bureau">Deuxième Bureau by Jumpel</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p><em>Deuxième Bureau</em> is a further refinement of the Jumpel sound so wonderfully displayed on debut album <em>Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach</em>. Like perfectly fabricated ecosystems, each track is a luscious miniature environment complete with its own microclimate and prismatic inhabitants. The attention to detail in the music is consistently astonishing, rewarding close listening with a good pair of headphones. <em>Deuxième Bureau</em> is a fabric of intimate moments – some parts woven tightly, others open to the air – and an enticing invitation to explore Jumpel’s delicate and immersive ambient micro-pop.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Samuel Jason Lies On the Beach</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 545px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3069050201/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://jumpel.bandcamp.com/album/samuel-jason-lies-on-the-beach">Samuel Jason Lies On the Beach by Jumpel</a></iframe></p><div> </div><p>Despite its obvious mastery of the dizzying possibilities afforded by technology, Jumpel’s debut album Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach is a work of intense intimacy and humanity. The album serves as a testament to the power of careful distillation and minimalism, exuding an emotional complexity that belies its seemingly simple surface. Tracks were borne out of discrete nocturnal recording sessions where ideas sparked from a range of disparate sources: an old drum machine, a radio announcement, a forgotten guitar chord. Through a process of layering and weaving, the album began to take shape. Opaque electronic textures act like sinew, binding themselves to piano and string melodies. The result is an album that must be heard as a whole, yet seems to exist without a real beginning or end.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Bio"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming.</p><p>Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="News"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Reviews"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Press Releases"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p> </p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf">EP </a> <em><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a></p><p><a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf">‘Endlessly’ Single</a> <a href="../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf">Antonymes Signing</a></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Gallery"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery ids="8222,8221,8220,8219"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Video"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p><p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Licensing"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Antonymes 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>[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_4"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label="Sidebar" orientation="left" area="sidebar-1" background_layout="dark" module_id="shoalsidebar" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]