<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/quickenbelts_MED.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of ‘<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=93">Quicken Belts</a>’ by German minimal electro maestro <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/jumpel/">Jumpel</a>, the first single to be taken from his forthcoming sophomore album <em>Deuxième Bureau</em>.

‘Quicken Belts’ is another gorgeously crafted piece from Jumpel, weaving beautifully delicate sounds into an immersive, deeply affecting miniature. Rhodes piano, marimba and rustling rhythms bounce amiably against the sounds of neon fireflies, tiny springs, and electrical flickering, before they are submerged in a pond of metallic particles. The sounds reappear, nudged into order by a crisp electro snare crack, then the track dissolves into the ether with a few wistful piano motifs.

<em>“Jumpel brings a wealth of musical and life experience to this meticulously crafted debut album… intimate despite its broad spectrum of instrumental colour and occasional cinematic ambiance” </em>– <strong>Textura on the debut Jumpel album Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach</strong>

The single and accompanying <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=94">music video</a> are available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=93">free download</a> from the <a href="http://agora.hiddenshoal.com">HSR Store</a> until the release of the album <em>Deuxième Bureau</em> on January 27th, 2009. Jumpel’s debut album <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=45"><em>Samuel Jason Lies On The Beach</em></a> is also available in digital format through Hidden Shoal Recordings. Check the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/jumpel/">HSR Store</a> for all availability and distribution information.

A full press release is also available <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Jumpel-Quicken_Belts_Single.pdf">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Jumpel/deuxieme_bureau/Quicken_Belts.mp3">Jumpel - Quicken Belts</a>  <em>Jumpel - Quicken Belts</em>